Common keeping errors

[Littleredfootbigredheart]

Hello everyone! I’d been a long time lurker on this site long before joining just under a year ago now, over that time I’ve seen these husbandry issues come up time and time again, sometimes with dire consequences☹️

I thought this thread might serve as a good visual guide for these common things to avoid, with a brief reasoning why, I encourage anyone to do more in depth research on this forum into any of the points raised if your interested in doing so🙂

First up, inappropriate housing

Incorrect temperatures

Bad diets


Incorrect/dangerous equipment









Bad substrates








The wrong source of purchase/information


Not enough soaks

Free roaming

Dangerous cohabitation



Bad water dishes

Dangerous animal interaction



please do feel free to add any you think I’ve missed below!🐢💚

 

[Littleredfootbigredheart]

Also just to add, some of these I didn’t even know were hazards myself before joining this forum! Most of the information on this thread, I’ve learnt from the amazing members here🥰

 

[The_Four_Toed_Edward]

This is a good addition to @Tom s beginner mistakes thread: https://tortoiseforum.org/threads/beginner-mistakes.45180/

 

[Tim Carlisle]

That was really well put together, especially for folks with short attention spans and don't like to read (let alone comprehend) a wall of text.

I'd love to share this if that ok with you. I know a ton of folks who can use some of this info. I expect I'll get a LOT of blowback for some of it, especially the keeping in pairs, free roaming the house, and the whole dog thing. But after 30 years of wedded bliss, I can handle an argument. lol

 

[Pák]

Thank you for the work hours you put into creating this

 

[Littleredfootbigredheart]

That was really well put together, especially for folks with short attention spans and don't like to read (let alone comprehend) a wall of text.

I'd love to share this if that ok with you. I know a ton of folks who can use some of this info. I expect I'll get a LOT of blowback for some of it, especially the keeping in pairs, free roaming the house, and the whole dog thing. But after 30 years of wedded bliss, I can handle an argument. lol

Thank you very much for saying this! I definitely like to cater to visual learners because I find it so helpful myself! Like you say, sometimes walls of text can feel a little overwhelming.

Yes you can absolutely share this! Hopefully it helps someone out there🐢💚

 

[Littleredfootbigredheart]

Thank you for the work hours you put into creating this

Was my pleasure🥰

 

[Markw84]

Hello everyone! I’d been a long time lurker on this site long before joining just under a year ago now, over that time I’ve seen these husbandry issues come up time and time again, sometimes with dire consequences☹️

I thought this thread might serve as a good visual guide for these common things to avoid, with a brief reasoning why, I encourage anyone to do more in depth research on this forum into any of the points raised if your interested in doing so🙂

First up, inappropriate housing
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Incorrect temperatures
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Bad diets
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Incorrect/dangerous equipment
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Bad substrates
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The wrong source of purchase/information
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Not enough soaks
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Free roaming
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Dangerous cohabitation
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Bad water dishes
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Dangerous animal interaction
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please do feel free to add any you think I’ve missed below!🐢💚

LRBRH:

Would you mind sending me the file you have these pictures in? Hopefully photoshop? I like a lot of what you have done here and want to create a display for my reptile show booth, or perhaps a booklet/notebook folks can page through. No need to redo all this work! I like the visual appeal of the info.

[email protected]

Thank you!

Mark

 

[Littleredfootbigredheart]

LRBRH:

Would you mind sending me the file you have these pictures in? Hopefully photoshop? I like a lot of what you have done here and want to create a display for my reptile show booth, or perhaps a booklet/notebook folks can page through. No need to redo all this work! I like the visual appeal of the info.

[email protected]

Thank you!

Mark

Yes I can absolutely do that! I actually created these on my phone using instagram lol, but I’ll attach the images for you in the email, hopefully they’ll come up for you😊