HELP!!!

[Yvonne G]

Hi HerrL1116:

Keeping baby sulcatas dry is old school. It just shows that your breeder hasn't been keeping up with the new schools of thought on tortoise-keeping.

Stay with us here, read the links we gave you, and your baby will grow to be a happy, healthy and LARGE tortoise with a smooth shell.

 

[Dizisdalife]

I would not use vermiculite in my tortoise enclosure. I am afraid that the tort will eat the small pieces. I have used coconut coir for the past year and have been very satisfied with it. Takes a little bit of work to get it all moist and packed down, but then it holds moisture and is pretty clean.

 

[HerrL1116]

Ok sure ill try that but I'm still getting the vermiculite not for the hide but for my geckos eggs.

 

[HerrL1116]

Guys...... i just came home to the most horrible thing ever i have a 1 inch deep bowl for my tortoise now i came home and he was upside down in it!!! :'''( you can only imagine my scare luckily he was ok it just hurts me thinking of how long hes been like that. but i turned him around as soon as i saw him god......... please help me someone requested i put a bowl in their i did and that happened can i do anything else for water??

 

[pdrobber]

you can use a plant pot saucer, it's not as deep but holds enough water. you can also try putting some slate or rocks(large enough to not be swallowed) in the bottom of the bowl you have to make it not so deep.

 

[HerrL1116]

thank you thank you im going to get some type of object so this wont happen again i feel terrible can any type of harm come to them in that? hes just trying to gain warmth now

 

[BrinnANDTorts]

Guys...... i just came home to the most horrible thing ever i have a 1 inch deep bowl for my tortoise now i came home and he was upside down in it!!! :'''( you can only imagine my scare luckily he was ok it just hurts me thinking of how long hes been like that. but i turned him around as soon as i saw him god......... please help me someone requested i put a bowl in their i did and that happened can i do anything else for water??

Your bowl was too deep, he flipped trying to get back out once he got in. Your tortoise doesn't look like he is an inch tall yet , I'm not sure though lol just guessing cause he looked pretty small but a much shallower bowl is needed so that he can climb in and out of it easier. more like a half inch max or so I would think.. Half an inch might even b too tall. Very shallow for such a little tortoise if you could post pictures of the bowl with your tortoise in it so we can see size and such that would help.

 

[HerrL1116]

of coarse let me get my sim card so i can take the picture hes just basking under his uvb lite

 

[Laura]

put pebbles in the dish or remove it and just do daily soakings. dont take the chance..

 

[HerrL1116]

look at the new post cage is getting there

http://www.tortoiseforum.org/Thread-Even-better#axzz1fHCMDCRz