Hello everyone im from northern Michigan, my name is Tracey but everyone calls me "Cuda" im grandma to my daughters baby Leopard torts there just so flippin cute and precious we love them dearly. My daughter cant have kids, long story she has a non curable brain tumor, so any pets she has is like our grand babies and they are not just pets THERE FAMILY. Cassie always wanted a Leopard tort and we did some searching online and came across a site that had a baby tort contest so i enterd her in it and she won.. Thanks Stephen!!! We ended up with 2 baby Leopards there just soooooooo precious, when Cassie is busy or sleeping grandma takes over tending to the babies and keeping a watchfull eye since im up most the night anyways. They have only been with us for 3 days now and they already have there temorary tort table digs down pat.. LOL!! "Javari" the one with all the spots is very out going and adventurous always checking everything out loves running back and fourth thru the water dish like its fun to splash the water LOL! "Tikii" the light colored baby with 3 spots is the baby she won in the contest and is more shy and slow but is comming around quickly. They get along real well Javari always in the lead like fallow me and hey check out this food its good for you to eat. There tort table is just temporary till we build a much larger one, but for now it suits them well since there so tiny they have plent of space, we also have a upper deck level but are leaving that out for the first week so we can keep a close eye on them and let them adjust to there new home. They have a basking area with UVB/UVA heat bulb "Powersun" that i can adjust the height of it if need be, they have a strip flour. light thats full spectrum over there eating area and they have a darker area where there heated humidity hide hut is. We use moist coir/cypress mulch mix for bedding and then spag moss over that in there humidity hut. They have natural moss areas and live grass mounds the rest of the plants for now are fake. There getting use to the rutine, lights on by 8am, lightly tap on side of table WAKE UP BABIES its time for a bath, then they get there soak bath while Cassie gets there food ready and also gets there water dish cleaned out, they soak for about 25 mins then they get some Vita Shell on and then bask and then there off to eat and explore then bask alittle more then off to bed in there hut. Its to cute sometimes Tikii passes out wherever but Javari knows to well where the hut is and goes right to it, when Tikii wakes up and notices Javari aint around right away off to the hut he goes. We dont know if there boys or girls or one of each dont matter there loved just the same.Heres few pics of the little cuties..
First up Cassie holding them.
Right after there first soak bath and Vita Shell on.
This is Javari
This is Tikii
First meal after arriving home.
Heres Tikki, Javari was passed out for the night and Tikii had the midnight munchies.. LOL!!
Had to use flash for this pic as its darker in there.
2 Peas In A Pod
This is there temp tort table befour it was completely set up with bedding and befour they came home, i ran the powersun bulb for 7 hrs to make sure it didnt heat up the fake plants and start a fire, everything was good and stayed cool, now the light is hanging much lower to keep the basking area at a certain temp.
This is there upper deck level that goes in over the top there humidity hide hut, sorry nothing fancy..
It will have fake vine around the top walls and coir/cypress mulch then some natural moss.
Will post pics when we build the new bigger tort table.
Thanks for letting us be apart of this wonderful tort forum family..
