Have searched the forum and I now see that it is advised to soak adults as well? Didn't realize that but just soaked my 50 lb.er in shallow lukewarm water and he splished and splashed so I think he liked it. Hope I haven't done harm by not soaking before; he seems very healthy. Anyone care to weigh in? I live in SoCal.
Soaking an adult sulcata?
- Thread starter Ellie Mae
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I soak my adults a couple of times a week in the hot summers, less often the rest of the year.
I don't soak but do use a sprinkler often and he sits by it all the time. We also have very high humidity in South Carolina as well.
They like, enjoy, and need their nice long soaks. We as keepers of these wonderful torts need to make it happen!
If you can dig a hole where he can walk into it on his own, fill with water and when the water is gone, he's done. I don't have a sully, but my adult leopards self soak daily, so I don't soak them. In the summer they do get a sprinkler almost daily and a mud hole.Wish I could use a sprinkler often but living in SoCal...
I make a mud pit a few times a week by turning on the water on the outside of the house. Sometimes he'll get in, drink, and splash around, other times he just ignores it all together.
When he does go in he seems to be happy.
When he does go in he seems to be happy.
Having water available to let them him soak himself seems to work well. He soaks every day when it is warm.
I know my sulcata at least gets into his water because about 15 minutes after I clean it out and add fresh, there's several big poop logs in there and a bunch of slimey white goo.
Yeah, my tortoise does that too. Sometimes I clean out his soaking water twice a day. It is a tad frustrating when fresh water doesn't last more than 10 minutes. Maybe they like really rank water. Probably just when he gets his water just the way he likes it I show up and make it all clean again... No wonder he stares at me like that.
I may have come up with the easiest solution to providing Charlie with a soaking (mud) pond. We have a sprinkler in the rose beds that Charlie kept breaking off so finally the guy who repaired it installed it flush with the ground. It is a bubbler so it makes a great puddle there, and since it is a spot he already likes, I won't have to worry about him finding it. I just won't plant anything right there.
The_Four_Toed_Edward
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It is best you make your own thread on the introductions section so this gets more attention!
