Hello everyone, my name is babyblud but people in other forums call me BB. We recently acquired our very first tortoise (extreme tort novice right here) 6 weeks ago and have actually used your forum for many different things without actually signing up XD We bought her for my sons 7th birthday present and absolutely adore her, her name is Raphael and we have aged her around 12 weeks (so far) we are a bit sketchy on sex and age as you can tell, and also breed unfortunately. We were told in the pet shop she was a horsefield and a male, but a man up the road has a Mediterranean and we invited him to see our set up as he has had his for 8 years, he has sexed her as female but no idea on age and he also says she is a hermes. Oh well, we love her all the same. We bought her as a set with a vivarium and three days later and reading your threads many times realized our potentially dangerous mistake and moved her into a converted bookshelf. She's a lot happier and is eating a lot better!
We live in the UK, midlands to be precise, she's inside for now as we have a lot of cats and dogs roaming free in our neighbourhood and no way of protecting her while we are out. Both of us work, me during the day, my partner at night and my son goes to school (obviously). As we don't actually have a garden ( i know big mistake for a burrowing tort) we take her to the park 3 times a week (dependant on weather) and allow her to walk around the back yard or around the house each day. She's a little devil trying to get under the settee i can tell you >.>! We bathe her every 2-3 days and her excretions as far as we can tell are normal. She also loves being spoken to, stretches out her neck as if to listen. Also, they are a lot faster then i thought they were 0.0 my god can she run! Heart attack central right there, especially when the front door is open lol! Any help and advice would be appreciated. We feed her a mixure of salad, dandelion and flower pellets in the morning and a fresh veg and salad mix in the evening (depending on what we're having for dinner) and every three days skip the pellets and give her salad and veg and a bit of fruit and flower mix throughout the day (my grandmother is the best at giving edible flowers and weed at the minute!) Raph goes crazy for dandelions though. Pictures and such will be shown in appropriate threads as soon as i get them off my phone :0
But anyway it's nice to actually write something rather than read haha XD
We live in the UK, midlands to be precise, she's inside for now as we have a lot of cats and dogs roaming free in our neighbourhood and no way of protecting her while we are out. Both of us work, me during the day, my partner at night and my son goes to school (obviously). As we don't actually have a garden ( i know big mistake for a burrowing tort) we take her to the park 3 times a week (dependant on weather) and allow her to walk around the back yard or around the house each day. She's a little devil trying to get under the settee i can tell you >.>! We bathe her every 2-3 days and her excretions as far as we can tell are normal. She also loves being spoken to, stretches out her neck as if to listen. Also, they are a lot faster then i thought they were 0.0 my god can she run! Heart attack central right there, especially when the front door is open lol! Any help and advice would be appreciated. We feed her a mixure of salad, dandelion and flower pellets in the morning and a fresh veg and salad mix in the evening (depending on what we're having for dinner) and every three days skip the pellets and give her salad and veg and a bit of fruit and flower mix throughout the day (my grandmother is the best at giving edible flowers and weed at the minute!) Raph goes crazy for dandelions though. Pictures and such will be shown in appropriate threads as soon as i get them off my phone :0
But anyway it's nice to actually write something rather than read haha XD
yes we bathe her in warm water a mixture of tap and filtered same with her drinking water, she's quite used to it now. The first time we gave her a bath all she wanted was to climb out, i can't blame her i don't think the pet shop ever gave her one. A photo will be up as soon as i can get my phone to behave for some reason it believe i have over 300 photos to transfer, which i don't 0.0 Should i post a photo here or in the photo thread for quick id?
