Hi!
My name is Donna, and I live in Peoria, AZ which is just outside of Phoenix. I have 4 African Sulcatas: one female and three males. The female, Andi, born August 2003 and two of the males, Joey, born August 2004 and Bolt, born July 2008, live outside in a custom built habitat with heated house and automated sprinklers to keep their grass growing and the humidity up. Chase, adopted Nov. 23, 2011 from a friend when he was about 6 months old, still lives in the house in a huge tort table. I worry that Chase may not get to live outside. The other two males get along together, but did not welcome him (thought by his previous owner to be a female) into the group. He had parasites when he first arrived, and did not grow much. Now he is well, and growing fine, but he won't catch up to Joey & Bolt until they stop growing.
We "rescued" Andi & Bolt when they were found wondering in our own back yard. They were both hatchlings, and the one person who used to raise sulcatas in our neighborhood had moved away a couple of years earlier. Never did find the female who was laying the eggs, but at least two of her offspring made it past the coyotes. Bolt moved here from New Jersey, thanks to Julie at Turtle Rescue of Long Island.
I'm happy to have found a forum dedicated to tortoises and turtles, I miss the camraderie of the small ones I used to belong to!
My name is Donna, and I live in Peoria, AZ which is just outside of Phoenix. I have 4 African Sulcatas: one female and three males. The female, Andi, born August 2003 and two of the males, Joey, born August 2004 and Bolt, born July 2008, live outside in a custom built habitat with heated house and automated sprinklers to keep their grass growing and the humidity up. Chase, adopted Nov. 23, 2011 from a friend when he was about 6 months old, still lives in the house in a huge tort table. I worry that Chase may not get to live outside. The other two males get along together, but did not welcome him (thought by his previous owner to be a female) into the group. He had parasites when he first arrived, and did not grow much. Now he is well, and growing fine, but he won't catch up to Joey & Bolt until they stop growing.
We "rescued" Andi & Bolt when they were found wondering in our own back yard. They were both hatchlings, and the one person who used to raise sulcatas in our neighborhood had moved away a couple of years earlier. Never did find the female who was laying the eggs, but at least two of her offspring made it past the coyotes. Bolt moved here from New Jersey, thanks to Julie at Turtle Rescue of Long Island.
I'm happy to have found a forum dedicated to tortoises and turtles, I miss the camraderie of the small ones I used to belong to!
