StaceyJane87
New Member
Hiya everyone,
Thank you for accepting us newbies, we have been reading lots of threads searching for answers for our baby red foot but we are really confused, so wondered if there was some experts on here who maybe able to help us??
We bought "Barry" for our 10 year old son who has been doing lots of research on tortoises and decided on a red foot and our son decided to call him/her Barry. We got Barry from a reptile shop and have had him for about 2 weeks and we are so in love but we don't know if we are doing it right.
Barry is roughly 9 months old and all he does is sits in his house all day and never actually comes out. I have to place him by his food and water bowl to make him eat and drink he never actually goes looking for food although Barry has started to eat strawberries and veg from our hands (he loves a strawberry!!! But only give him one every couple of days) we feed him a variety of pellets pre soaked with a calcium powder and a wide range of leafy veg. We bath him everyday (where he does all his pooping so keeps his vivaruim clean) where i use cotton buds to clean around his arms legs and head but he does not like that very much and we use a baby toothbrush for the shell and gently scrub. We also clean the enclosure out every week.
Are we doing the above right? Im worried that he never comes out to eat.
He loves to be petted and will rub his head against my finger but also likes to pee on me lol.
With the temperature we are having a bit of a nightmare with it. Barry never basks?? I place him under the lamp and he goes straight back to his wooden hide. I have moved his hide to the warm end but he don't like it. The hot end is between 90-92f and the cool end is 82f, humidity is kept between 70% and 80%. The basking lamp is switched off of a night along with the UV lamp, they are on for about 14 hours a day with only the heat mat on of a night, which has his hide in front of it but Barry stays there all night and again does not move. We also have a thermostat on the basking lamp which is set to the temperature of the cool end which means it sometimes goes out, is this right?
Barry has bark substrate which we spray 3-4 times a day.
What we are worried about is that he doesnt eat much but we have to show him where his food is, otherwise it seems as though he wouldn't eat
Why doesn't he bask at all? When we picked him up from the shop his shell was nice and warm and his shell has not been warm since.
We have calcium blocks in the enclosure but he has recently started chewing on his bowls, is this anything to be concerned about ?
Are we doing anything wrong?
Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
Stacey, Ross, Charlie and Barry
Thank you for accepting us newbies, we have been reading lots of threads searching for answers for our baby red foot but we are really confused, so wondered if there was some experts on here who maybe able to help us??
We bought "Barry" for our 10 year old son who has been doing lots of research on tortoises and decided on a red foot and our son decided to call him/her Barry. We got Barry from a reptile shop and have had him for about 2 weeks and we are so in love but we don't know if we are doing it right.
Barry is roughly 9 months old and all he does is sits in his house all day and never actually comes out. I have to place him by his food and water bowl to make him eat and drink he never actually goes looking for food although Barry has started to eat strawberries and veg from our hands (he loves a strawberry!!! But only give him one every couple of days) we feed him a variety of pellets pre soaked with a calcium powder and a wide range of leafy veg. We bath him everyday (where he does all his pooping so keeps his vivaruim clean) where i use cotton buds to clean around his arms legs and head but he does not like that very much and we use a baby toothbrush for the shell and gently scrub. We also clean the enclosure out every week.
Are we doing the above right? Im worried that he never comes out to eat.
He loves to be petted and will rub his head against my finger but also likes to pee on me lol.
With the temperature we are having a bit of a nightmare with it. Barry never basks?? I place him under the lamp and he goes straight back to his wooden hide. I have moved his hide to the warm end but he don't like it. The hot end is between 90-92f and the cool end is 82f, humidity is kept between 70% and 80%. The basking lamp is switched off of a night along with the UV lamp, they are on for about 14 hours a day with only the heat mat on of a night, which has his hide in front of it but Barry stays there all night and again does not move. We also have a thermostat on the basking lamp which is set to the temperature of the cool end which means it sometimes goes out, is this right?
Barry has bark substrate which we spray 3-4 times a day.
What we are worried about is that he doesnt eat much but we have to show him where his food is, otherwise it seems as though he wouldn't eat
Why doesn't he bask at all? When we picked him up from the shop his shell was nice and warm and his shell has not been warm since.
We have calcium blocks in the enclosure but he has recently started chewing on his bowls, is this anything to be concerned about ?
Are we doing anything wrong?
Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
Stacey, Ross, Charlie and Barry