KLA
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Greetings All,
Thanks to everyone that's been posting amazing threads on building outdoor night homes (especially Tom) as that will be my next endeavor.
I've got a sulcata that's approximately 2-3 years old. Possibly. He's a rescue (aka someone handed him to me a year ago in a feed store while I was getting chicken mash bc he was too big for the apartment). He lives in Los Angeles with me and free roams the large backyard where I've grown him all sorts of grasses and treats and he currently is about 16" long and 20 lbs. He seems happy enough and spends his time eating all day, pooping every 1-2 days, and searching his world for chicken craps to eat. Currently he sleeps in an uninsulated covered shack I made him out of plywood with about 10 inches of dirt to dig into and a small cat bungalow type heater pad on one side. Needless to say, I followed the advice of the Ojai Sulcata rescue page and let him ferment his own poop dirt pile (like the chickens) and completely missed the boat on needing significant night time heat. Will be working on fixing that over the next month and I do have a question about how small an enclosure one can put one of the radiant oil heaters and how tight a fit in can be in the 'box' enclosure it sits in. The tort isn't huge yet and I'm a renter, so if I could cover the next two to three years before I move again, that would be great.
Max, the tort, well he has always had some mildly raspy breathing. Not the hissing pissed off 'I want to eat your toes' sound but just a bit of a wheeze. No discharge, no cough, nor bubbles, etc. etc. and like I said, he grazes all day until dusk every day, rain or shine and would literally walk to San Francisco if given the ability to escape. He's gained about 10 lbs and at least 6 inches since I got him last year and the mild pyramiding he came with hasn't gotten at all worse and may be looking better. Is that a respiratory infection? Wouldn't he seem actually sick if it was? What's the best way to treat him and what to treat him with?
Thank you so much, in advance.
Thanks to everyone that's been posting amazing threads on building outdoor night homes (especially Tom) as that will be my next endeavor.
I've got a sulcata that's approximately 2-3 years old. Possibly. He's a rescue (aka someone handed him to me a year ago in a feed store while I was getting chicken mash bc he was too big for the apartment). He lives in Los Angeles with me and free roams the large backyard where I've grown him all sorts of grasses and treats and he currently is about 16" long and 20 lbs. He seems happy enough and spends his time eating all day, pooping every 1-2 days, and searching his world for chicken craps to eat. Currently he sleeps in an uninsulated covered shack I made him out of plywood with about 10 inches of dirt to dig into and a small cat bungalow type heater pad on one side. Needless to say, I followed the advice of the Ojai Sulcata rescue page and let him ferment his own poop dirt pile (like the chickens) and completely missed the boat on needing significant night time heat. Will be working on fixing that over the next month and I do have a question about how small an enclosure one can put one of the radiant oil heaters and how tight a fit in can be in the 'box' enclosure it sits in. The tort isn't huge yet and I'm a renter, so if I could cover the next two to three years before I move again, that would be great.
Max, the tort, well he has always had some mildly raspy breathing. Not the hissing pissed off 'I want to eat your toes' sound but just a bit of a wheeze. No discharge, no cough, nor bubbles, etc. etc. and like I said, he grazes all day until dusk every day, rain or shine and would literally walk to San Francisco if given the ability to escape. He's gained about 10 lbs and at least 6 inches since I got him last year and the mild pyramiding he came with hasn't gotten at all worse and may be looking better. Is that a respiratory infection? Wouldn't he seem actually sick if it was? What's the best way to treat him and what to treat him with?
Thank you so much, in advance.