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So I heard a story from a lady who said her new Sulcata kept flipping over in an indoor enclosure. She left him alone for a few hours and found him dead when she came back. Cas has flipped once, but managed to right himself. We then moved the enclosure from that location to a more even surface.
The second time he was more on his side and the water bowl he was in wasn't level with the ground, so I fixed it after nearly having a heart attack. I came back a while later to find that he had climbed onto the ledge of wood running along the bottom part inside of the enclosure- not sure how he got up there o.o - and placed some flat rocks under it for him to climb down. No flipping occurred the rest of the day, even if he seems to enjoy climbing onto things.
I check on him as much as I can throughout the day, but he stays outside at night and of course, I can't keep going out throughout the night to check on him. Is flipping common in baby tortoises? Does Cas sleep at night, thus eliminating my worries for him flipping over and finding him dead in the morning?
The second time he was more on his side and the water bowl he was in wasn't level with the ground, so I fixed it after nearly having a heart attack. I came back a while later to find that he had climbed onto the ledge of wood running along the bottom part inside of the enclosure- not sure how he got up there o.o - and placed some flat rocks under it for him to climb down. No flipping occurred the rest of the day, even if he seems to enjoy climbing onto things.
I check on him as much as I can throughout the day, but he stays outside at night and of course, I can't keep going out throughout the night to check on him. Is flipping common in baby tortoises? Does Cas sleep at night, thus eliminating my worries for him flipping over and finding him dead in the morning?