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Hi guys,
I was just wondering how you keep substrate out of your tortoise's water bowl? I have two hermanns and one of them really likes to walk in and out of the water bowl when drinking or he just walks through it instead of going round it! But since he enters the water bowl at least 4 times every hour by midday the water bowl is filled with more soil than water!
I have a soil/sand substrate mix and when he walks through the water bowl his legs and plastron get wet. Then when he walks on the soil he picks up lots of material and it completely covers areas like his tail and nails. Then he keeps making trips to and from the waterbowl and ends up picking up soil, then dropping it off again and again. I have placed pieces of slate around the bowl but they dont seem to help at all.
I am worried because when they drink from the water and it has a lot of sand in it and i dont want them to ingest it because of impactation.
This is also a problem with feeding because he has so much soil in his nails that when he uses his hands to hold his food when he eats, he covers the weeds in soil and sand.
How do you keep subsrate out of your tortoises water bowl?
Thanks, any ideas will be greatly appreciated
I was just wondering how you keep substrate out of your tortoise's water bowl? I have two hermanns and one of them really likes to walk in and out of the water bowl when drinking or he just walks through it instead of going round it! But since he enters the water bowl at least 4 times every hour by midday the water bowl is filled with more soil than water!
I have a soil/sand substrate mix and when he walks through the water bowl his legs and plastron get wet. Then when he walks on the soil he picks up lots of material and it completely covers areas like his tail and nails. Then he keeps making trips to and from the waterbowl and ends up picking up soil, then dropping it off again and again. I have placed pieces of slate around the bowl but they dont seem to help at all.
I am worried because when they drink from the water and it has a lot of sand in it and i dont want them to ingest it because of impactation.
This is also a problem with feeding because he has so much soil in his nails that when he uses his hands to hold his food when he eats, he covers the weeds in soil and sand.
How do you keep subsrate out of your tortoises water bowl?
Thanks, any ideas will be greatly appreciated