Hello!!! It doesn't matter what type of tort you have, if he is a she, or how old they are, but as long as you have a tort, you want to read this.
All of us have walked into the room where we keep our tortoise(s) and found him/her flipped over stranded on their back... right?
It scares us all silly, and we spend the next week watching them like a hawk until we are satisfied that they aren't going to flip again...right?
And during that week we also franticly search the web for anything that might tell us how to keep our torts from flipping over...right?
Well, here is where you are hopefully going to find something that might help with this problem!
I have 4 baby desert tortoises that just LOVE sunning their underside by climbing up and falling of their half log, pretending they are Spiderman and clawing their way up the corners of their enclosure resulting in flipping over and many other things also. Here are a few ideas I had on keeping your tortoise from flipping over:
in these two you can see that instead of trying to keep the tortoises from climbing up the log I just helped them do it instead. all you have to do is just pile up some substrate around the log.I did the same with this burrow here:
here is both of them:
I also like to take out a little substrate around the corners. I found it discourages them from climbing up the corners. you can see it in this picture in the upper left hand corner:
One more thing to do is to put the water dish in the middle of the enclosure away from things they could flip over on so they don't land in it and drown. (see above)
(I'm secretly hoping this thread last a long time )
anyone that has any other advice on how to keep your tortoises from flipping over PLEASE post. Thank you!God bless!
All of us have walked into the room where we keep our tortoise(s) and found him/her flipped over stranded on their back... right?
It scares us all silly, and we spend the next week watching them like a hawk until we are satisfied that they aren't going to flip again...right?
And during that week we also franticly search the web for anything that might tell us how to keep our torts from flipping over...right?
Well, here is where you are hopefully going to find something that might help with this problem!
I have 4 baby desert tortoises that just LOVE sunning their underside by climbing up and falling of their half log, pretending they are Spiderman and clawing their way up the corners of their enclosure resulting in flipping over and many other things also. Here are a few ideas I had on keeping your tortoise from flipping over:
in these two you can see that instead of trying to keep the tortoises from climbing up the log I just helped them do it instead. all you have to do is just pile up some substrate around the log.I did the same with this burrow here:
here is both of them:
I also like to take out a little substrate around the corners. I found it discourages them from climbing up the corners. you can see it in this picture in the upper left hand corner:
One more thing to do is to put the water dish in the middle of the enclosure away from things they could flip over on so they don't land in it and drown. (see above)
(I'm secretly hoping this thread last a long time
)anyone that has any other advice on how to keep your tortoises from flipping over PLEASE post. Thank you!God bless!
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