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Hello all. My Russian Tortoise, Amaranth, never digs. She is kept indoors inside of a fifty gallon storage container. Her basking area is anywhere between 90-100(though she likes it in the 100's it seems) with areas throughout that are a various other degrees, usually around the lower to upper seventies. She has water available at all times that she may bathe herself in. She has a half log that is semi burried in her substrate of about 1/3 sand and 2/3 top soil (without chems). Her diet usually cons its of spring mix and the occasional grazing session outside in my unkept lawn(lots of delicious weeds to snack upon, and her favourite, clovers) and also the occasional flower from my girl's organic garden. I believe I've been keeping in pretty good conditions. She also has a UV light of course and spray calcium and vitamin supliments. She also has not pooped from what I can tell in possibly 5 days. There was a stray wet patch of dirt though so I assumed it was pee and two days ago I found white dried urates in her food bowl that smelled like her poop. Am I using a bad substrate? She's always active when she sees me and seems to like me rubbing under her chin. She loves to climb the half log. She has never burrowed.