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Hi all, My name is Gary and I am the proud owner of a 3 year old Sulcata name of Terri, I live in the county of Kent SE England and am currently in the process of building Terri's new home. I am also in tough love mode trying to convert Terri onto a better grass related diet. All advice is welcome and i look forward to your posts.
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Hi Gary! Welcome to TFO! I hope you will share pictures of Terri with us. So, how did you happen to get a sulcata?
 

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Hi will post pictures once I have figured out how. As to how I got a Sulcata my wife bought her for me for my birthday. Always loved Tortoises, terrapins and Turtles and now I am the proud and priveleged owner of one.
 

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Hi Gary:

Welcome to the Tortoise Forum!

I just can't imagine having a sulcata in England. But then, my perception of the weather in England has been limited by what I've seen in old movies...you know...fog, rain and more fog. :p
 

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gary.elliott said:
Hi will post pictures once I have figured out how. As to how I got a Sulcata my wife bought her for me for my birthday. Always loved Tortoises, terrapins and Turtles and now I am the proud and priveleged owner of one.

Sounds like you have a wonderful wife!
 

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What a lovely young lady. Your gonna have a heartbreaker with that one. :D
 

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Lastly this is the start of Terris new home. It has double skin insulated walls and will have a tiled insulated roof as well, all to combat all the fog and rain we get here (only half joking).
 

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That's just beautiful! Very pleasing to my sense of symmetry!
 

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Welcome to the forum Gary :D. Glad you decided to join it. You will like it here and should beable to get all your question's answered. Btw, Terri is beautiful. Extremely shiney, so you wax her shell?...jk..lol
 

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FADE2BLACK_1973 said:
Welcome to the forum Gary :D. Glad you decided to join it. You will like it here and should beable to get all your question's answered. Btw, Terri is beautiful. Extremely shiney, so you wax her shell?...jk..lol

Thanks Chris I rub olive oil into shell and then take off as much as I can. Don't know if I should but was told I could do this by the Reptile store when we bought her.
 

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wow Terri is stunning, I should have you wife pick out my torts :D. And her home looks like it will be amazing, you should set up a thread for how you are building it, that photo has me intrigued.
 

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Welcome! She is beautiful! But, I would question the "oil." A clean shell is nice enough.

~C
 
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