Salcedos.23
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Hi everyone, I’m new to this forum and I’m a first time tortoise owner so please be kind ![Grimacing face :grimacing: 😬](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f62c.png)
I have a baby sulcata that we got in late June of this year. Unfortunately we walked into this not knowing the right anything really. We have however been doing a lot of research since getting Taco and I’ve read and saved all of Tom’s care sheets. I still have plenty of questions though. A lot of them have been answered on the forum but if someone can just tell me if I’m still doing something wrong that would be great lol
Okay so we have Taco in a 2x5 ft homemade tortoise table. When we bought him he was in a 20 gallon tank with sand substrate. We use cypress mulch as substrate and place sphagnum moss in one corner.
Temperatures are as follows:
Day time Basking side 91- 97 Fahrenheit
Ambient side 87-90 Fahrenheit
At night it varies from 84-78 most nights
As for humidity I know a lot of people say that tortoise tables are not good but we made his enclosure using old dresser drawers. I hope to get him a real one in the future before he’s moved outside but for now we cover the whole thing with a shower liner which solved our humidity problem. Now it is at a constant 90 % throughout the day. The lowest it’ll drop to is 78% but mostly the humidity is so high it goes up to 96% so I’ll air it out for a bit to bring it back down.
By the way I use a 50w incandescent flood light bulb and a 60w CHE at night.
I also bring him out 2-3 times a week for sunlight and UV and soak him daily for about 20-30 min (he poops everytime but urates are looking a little gritty lately)
He loves to eat romaine lettuce and green leafy lettuce but I’ve been trying to introduce grass and hay to his diet by cutting them and mixing it into a salad. I’ll also add some cactus pad in but he’s very picky and won’t really eat his salad.
We also sprinkle calcium twice a week and give him grassland tortoise food which he also hates.
Anyway he used to be really active when we first got him but now he just sleeps a lot. Also I don’t know if he’s growing as fast when we got him he was 1.5 oz and now he’s 1.9 oz. His shell is still 2 inches long though.
![Grimacing face :grimacing: 😬](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f62c.png)
I have a baby sulcata that we got in late June of this year. Unfortunately we walked into this not knowing the right anything really. We have however been doing a lot of research since getting Taco and I’ve read and saved all of Tom’s care sheets. I still have plenty of questions though. A lot of them have been answered on the forum but if someone can just tell me if I’m still doing something wrong that would be great lol
Okay so we have Taco in a 2x5 ft homemade tortoise table. When we bought him he was in a 20 gallon tank with sand substrate. We use cypress mulch as substrate and place sphagnum moss in one corner.
Temperatures are as follows:
Day time Basking side 91- 97 Fahrenheit
Ambient side 87-90 Fahrenheit
At night it varies from 84-78 most nights
As for humidity I know a lot of people say that tortoise tables are not good but we made his enclosure using old dresser drawers. I hope to get him a real one in the future before he’s moved outside but for now we cover the whole thing with a shower liner which solved our humidity problem. Now it is at a constant 90 % throughout the day. The lowest it’ll drop to is 78% but mostly the humidity is so high it goes up to 96% so I’ll air it out for a bit to bring it back down.
By the way I use a 50w incandescent flood light bulb and a 60w CHE at night.
I also bring him out 2-3 times a week for sunlight and UV and soak him daily for about 20-30 min (he poops everytime but urates are looking a little gritty lately)
He loves to eat romaine lettuce and green leafy lettuce but I’ve been trying to introduce grass and hay to his diet by cutting them and mixing it into a salad. I’ll also add some cactus pad in but he’s very picky and won’t really eat his salad.
We also sprinkle calcium twice a week and give him grassland tortoise food which he also hates.
Anyway he used to be really active when we first got him but now he just sleeps a lot. Also I don’t know if he’s growing as fast when we got him he was 1.5 oz and now he’s 1.9 oz. His shell is still 2 inches long though.