NelsonWilliams
New Member
Hello everyone! This will be my first time posting on the forum, but I have been using a lot of the posts I’ve seen from you guys to meet the needs our new little Leopard tortoise, Kemba. We picked up up from a reptile expo a little over a week ago. They told us he was about 6 weeks old.
We are using reptibark, cypress mulch, and coco coir as his substrates. We have 2 heat lamps running during during the daytime hours with a night night bulb from sundown to sunrise. The UVB bar is on during the daylight hours as well.
The diet for kemba has been a little tricky so far. He loved eating a spring mix when we first got him. But now as we try to add a variety to his diet (prickly pear, romaine lettuce, grassland tortoise diet, and dandelion greens) he doesn’t seem to have an appetite. We bathe him daily and he’s starting to enjoy that. But we are concerned with his lack of appetite as he seems to eat less and less each day.
He doesn’t seem to like the areas on his enclosure that hold humidity. He chooses to stay in the reptibark almost 90% of the time. Not sure if that could be an issue?
We are using reptibark, cypress mulch, and coco coir as his substrates. We have 2 heat lamps running during during the daytime hours with a night night bulb from sundown to sunrise. The UVB bar is on during the daylight hours as well.
The diet for kemba has been a little tricky so far. He loved eating a spring mix when we first got him. But now as we try to add a variety to his diet (prickly pear, romaine lettuce, grassland tortoise diet, and dandelion greens) he doesn’t seem to have an appetite. We bathe him daily and he’s starting to enjoy that. But we are concerned with his lack of appetite as he seems to eat less and less each day.
He doesn’t seem to like the areas on his enclosure that hold humidity. He chooses to stay in the reptibark almost 90% of the time. Not sure if that could be an issue?