Common keeping errors

[Littleredfootbigredheart]

To further drive home the don't buy from pet stores. I was in one the other day and they had a tank marked redfoot tortoise. It was dark and cold, had the wrong substrate and incorrect water dish. When I asked to see the tortoise it was a cherry head tortoise. It was cold and it's eyes were stuck shut. I explained to them nicely they need to make some changes and the blew me off. I'm afraid that poor tort will not make it.

Ugh that’s so sad😔 Squirt was from somewhere bad(family member didn’t know any better at the time) where they’d turn all their heating off at night for every species, including their baby red foots, bare in mind we’re a cold country, and they had no problem using red heat bulbs and cramming a bunch of adults into a tiny enclosure😣
Apparently the store burnt down a few years ago😳they just sell fish now..