HELP (home's hingeback tortoise) care

[Anyfoot]

Thanks, what vegetables and fruits should I feed and what grass are you feeding yours? Also should I provide her a mud pool and will she get affected by mud?

I wouldn't provide a mud pool, it may get too messy. Water pool for hydration is more important.
I feed kale, romaine lettuce, spinach, blackberry leaves, rasberry leaves and weeds(dandilions and plantain). I've noticed they eat dried leaves too.
For fruit I feed papaya, mango, melon, apple,pear,kiwi,banana and strawberries.

 

[hingeback]

But the rainwater keeps flooding the water part I made for her.
So how should I make her watering hole?

 

[Anyfoot]

But the rainwater keeps flooding the water part I made for her.
So how should I make her watering hole?

What are you making the watering hole out of?

 

[hingeback]

I just dug a hole in the ground, not very deep

 

[Anyfoot]

But the rainwater keeps flooding the water part I made for her.
So how should I make her watering hole?

It actually sounds good with all the rain.
You need to some how create an overflow so the excess rain is channeled away to another area.

 

[hingeback]

Ok

 

[hingeback]

What plants do you recommend as shade?

 

[Anyfoot]

Do yo

Ok

Do you have a photo of the area?
Could you create higher ground levels with the soil, so there is a natural fall for the rain water to drain away. Landscape the floor a bit so its not all flat. They like to climb hills.
When mine are in the garden they climb everywhere, over rocks and up mounds of earth.

 

[hingeback]

 

[hingeback]

I will be making the fence at the dug area

 

[hingeback]

How tall should the small hills be?

 

[Anyfoot]

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Nice. Make sure your Tortoise can't get through the gaps in the existing fence.
2 other things too. You need to make sure they have access to calcium, cuttlefish.
Also, predators. I don't know if or what predators you have over there. I've read cases where peoples tortoises have been swept away by hawks. Or chewed on by possums. We don't have that problem in the uk. Just something to think about when planning your enclosure.

 

[hingeback]

Ok, so what do you recommend to keep it safe?

 

[Anyfoot]

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I see what you mean with rain. I can see it where you have dug out for the fence.
Maybe you need to have the entire land where your enclosure is on a slope, so rain drains away.

 

[hingeback]

Only the holes have muddy water, the rest are squishy, so does it affect her, and how high should the landscaping hills be?

 

[Anyfoot]

How tall should the small hills be?

I'd just mound up earth in areas, but not to steep, gradual slopes so its safe, and keep away from the perimeter of your enclosure so they don't climb out.

 

[hingeback]

No problem

 

[hingeback]

So is the mud okay? And what shade plants should I get?

 

[Anyfoot]

So is the mud okay? And what shade plants should I get?

Is the mud like clay, or could you grow grass, flowers and weeds in it.
You need hides too. Do for example terracotta plant pots on there side half burried into the ground then earth soil over that as part of the hills. You need to do it so the burrows don't flood though.

 

[hingeback]

We are planting Philippine grass, and it is growing slowly, so should the substrate be grass? Or should I leave some spots clay soil?