LifewithFrank
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Hello everyone my name is Cassie,
Thank you for having this amazing forum, My fiance Marcus and I have not had an account, but have used it a ton since as we got our baby Russian Tortoise Franklin in 2018.
Just as a background information, we have currently two enclosures one indoor and one outdoor, but the one I will be discussing about is the indoor enclosure. Its a 2x2/2.5x2.5 ft wooden enclosure with a lighting system: Mercury Vapor bulb (100w), a UVB tube light, and then a ceramic heater (when temp gets too cold/goes below 65 degrees); Lights turn on around 7am and stay on until 9pm where daytime temp is measured with an electrical system that reads 85-95 degrees in the basking area, and 75-80 degrees in the cooler areas.
So now that we have all of the technical stuff out of the way, we normally have a very curious tortoise, he loves being greeted with food, he recognizes my fiance and I when we approach him, he doesn't really like to be touched, but allows us to hold him and transport him outside [when our California weather permits good temperatures]. Since its been raining a lot, and very cold outside we haven't taken him out of the indoor enclosure for about a month (give or take). In this time he'e been very, very antsy. He's moving almost everything in his enclosure, including both hides, and finally putting us over the edge (literally) when he made his first escaping act, as he's developed his most recent behavior/talent of climbing ?(don't worry he didn't fall, and we've since added taller sidings around the entire enclosure):
![Escaping Frank.jpg Escaping Frank.jpg](https://data.www.tortoiseforum.org/attachments/276/276527-d779f1b213d33fd082a2598cc99e25c8.jpg)
![Escaping Frank.jpg Escaping Frank.jpg](https://data.www.tortoiseforum.org/attachments/276/276527-d779f1b213d33fd082a2598cc99e25c8.jpg)
Now because we have seen his curious behavior before, I thought maybe he's bored/stir crazy from the whole shelter in place situation were in lol. So I thought i'll just switching up his enclosure? i.e where his hides are, adding new an exciting succulents to his enclosure would have done the trick, but no, he's more determined then ever to try to peep over the edge. So much so he doesn't care how many times he gets himself into weird positions, and even flipping over because he's determined (Lord help me ??).
Now is this just his rebellion faze of being in his terrible 2's or what's the deal!? Please let us know as we are just as curious. We love him to death and just want him to be happy and settled.
![Meet Frank.jpg Meet Frank.jpg](https://data.www.tortoiseforum.org/attachments/276/276525-e56e4ededb70164468435bd084a540eb.jpg)
![Our curious boiii.jpg Our curious boiii.jpg](https://data.www.tortoiseforum.org/attachments/276/276526-32c3874aeae23e6bef0126b6eb9f8241.jpg)
![Frank Climbing.jpg Frank Climbing.jpg](https://data.www.tortoiseforum.org/attachments/276/276528-cef63ad00966449f92a36d2ccdf30168.jpg)
![Falling over.jpg Falling over.jpg](https://data.www.tortoiseforum.org/attachments/276/276529-370a1be18a8fca7d5c240d5f95ad32d7.jpg)
![Digging Frank.jpg Digging Frank.jpg](https://data.www.tortoiseforum.org/attachments/276/276530-a84daf1eefe65de1d1baf6ff79efc1e6.jpg)
Thank you for having this amazing forum, My fiance Marcus and I have not had an account, but have used it a ton since as we got our baby Russian Tortoise Franklin in 2018.
Just as a background information, we have currently two enclosures one indoor and one outdoor, but the one I will be discussing about is the indoor enclosure. Its a 2x2/2.5x2.5 ft wooden enclosure with a lighting system: Mercury Vapor bulb (100w), a UVB tube light, and then a ceramic heater (when temp gets too cold/goes below 65 degrees); Lights turn on around 7am and stay on until 9pm where daytime temp is measured with an electrical system that reads 85-95 degrees in the basking area, and 75-80 degrees in the cooler areas.
So now that we have all of the technical stuff out of the way, we normally have a very curious tortoise, he loves being greeted with food, he recognizes my fiance and I when we approach him, he doesn't really like to be touched, but allows us to hold him and transport him outside [when our California weather permits good temperatures]. Since its been raining a lot, and very cold outside we haven't taken him out of the indoor enclosure for about a month (give or take). In this time he'e been very, very antsy. He's moving almost everything in his enclosure, including both hides, and finally putting us over the edge (literally) when he made his first escaping act, as he's developed his most recent behavior/talent of climbing ?(don't worry he didn't fall, and we've since added taller sidings around the entire enclosure):
![Escaping Frank.jpg Escaping Frank.jpg](https://data.www.tortoiseforum.org/attachments/276/276527-d779f1b213d33fd082a2598cc99e25c8.jpg)
![Escaping Frank.jpg Escaping Frank.jpg](https://data.www.tortoiseforum.org/attachments/276/276527-d779f1b213d33fd082a2598cc99e25c8.jpg)
Now because we have seen his curious behavior before, I thought maybe he's bored/stir crazy from the whole shelter in place situation were in lol. So I thought i'll just switching up his enclosure? i.e where his hides are, adding new an exciting succulents to his enclosure would have done the trick, but no, he's more determined then ever to try to peep over the edge. So much so he doesn't care how many times he gets himself into weird positions, and even flipping over because he's determined (Lord help me ??).
Now is this just his rebellion faze of being in his terrible 2's or what's the deal!? Please let us know as we are just as curious. We love him to death and just want him to be happy and settled.
![Meet Frank.jpg Meet Frank.jpg](https://data.www.tortoiseforum.org/attachments/276/276525-e56e4ededb70164468435bd084a540eb.jpg)
![Our curious boiii.jpg Our curious boiii.jpg](https://data.www.tortoiseforum.org/attachments/276/276526-32c3874aeae23e6bef0126b6eb9f8241.jpg)
![Frank Climbing.jpg Frank Climbing.jpg](https://data.www.tortoiseforum.org/attachments/276/276528-cef63ad00966449f92a36d2ccdf30168.jpg)
![Falling over.jpg Falling over.jpg](https://data.www.tortoiseforum.org/attachments/276/276529-370a1be18a8fca7d5c240d5f95ad32d7.jpg)
![Digging Frank.jpg Digging Frank.jpg](https://data.www.tortoiseforum.org/attachments/276/276530-a84daf1eefe65de1d1baf6ff79efc1e6.jpg)