I want to thank everyone that responded to my question about pyramiding. I have a question about forced soaking I’m hoping this forum can help me with. As I stated before I have 2 LTC about 3-4 years old with a significant amount of pyramiding.
I’ve made water available to them, but they are not soaking in it. They live outside in a 3X4 children’s plastic playhouse and have a heated hid, they are also let outside to roam during the day. Their enclosure is too large for me to keep humid. It’s been around 65 degrees where I live & it’s too cold for me to squirt my tortoises down (I don’t feel comfortable doing it in this weather). So I’ve been soaking my redfoots in warm water 1-3 times a week.
I read somewhere not to force soak tortoises. It might be my imagination but I think that soaking them is making them more timid. However I don’t want them to pyramid any more than they already are. I keep thinking that the way they grew up they may not have learned to soak themselves. Does anyone have any advice?
I’ve made water available to them, but they are not soaking in it. They live outside in a 3X4 children’s plastic playhouse and have a heated hid, they are also let outside to roam during the day. Their enclosure is too large for me to keep humid. It’s been around 65 degrees where I live & it’s too cold for me to squirt my tortoises down (I don’t feel comfortable doing it in this weather). So I’ve been soaking my redfoots in warm water 1-3 times a week.
I read somewhere not to force soak tortoises. It might be my imagination but I think that soaking them is making them more timid. However I don’t want them to pyramid any more than they already are. I keep thinking that the way they grew up they may not have learned to soak themselves. Does anyone have any advice?