this is their home for the next few years until I decide how I’m going to be keeping them permanently! I’d love any feedback y’all have!
Thank you, and yes! I got them just a month ago, they’d been in a storage bin before that because that’s what my breeder had recommended but I switched to glass because I was having trouble regulating the heat and humidity.
Hi! Nice looking habitat, but I see a few problems.I finally finished making my girls their semi permanent enclosure! I tried to make it look like a little forest with the trees and rocks, I hope it came out well
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Hi, thank you for the feedback!
They are star tortoises. You will likely never see overt obvious hostility like bitting and ramming or mounting. The low grade stress of living as a pair will hamper their immune systems and suppress the appetite of one or the other. Its not good. Many breeders erroneously say this. Some of them know better, but just want to make a sale. They need to be separated.
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Ok, I ran to Walmart and grabbed them a teracotta dish and will start looking into separating them. I had previously read that keeping them together was bad before the breeder told me otherwise, so that would make more sense. Thank you for the link to the guide, it’s very helpful! And thank you very much for all of the good adviceThey are star tortoises. You will likely never see overt obvious hostility like bitting and ramming or mounting. The low grade stress of living as a pair will hamper their immune systems and suppress the appetite of one or the other. Its not good. Many breeders erroneously say this. Some of them know better, but just want to make a sale. They need to be separated.
That walls of the water container are too steep, too tall, and too slippery. Take a hot wheels car and try to drive it into that water container while keeping all four wheels on the ground. See what sort of positions it ends up in. Edges like that don't work for rigid shelled animals. You need something with low sides, an angled entry and exit, shallow water, and some traction for little wet tortoise feet. A terra cotta saucer fits the bill perfectly and they are cheap. Save your baking pan for baking.
I just noticed the humidifier tube in your pic. That is not a good idea either.
Give this a read. It should provide a whole lot of info that will help:
The Best Way To Raise A Sulcata, Leopard, Or Star Tortoise
I chose the title of this care sheet very carefully. Are there other ways to raise babies? Yes. Yes there are, but those ways are not as good. What follows is the BEST way, according to 30 years of research and experimentation with hundreds of babies of many species. Babies hatch during the...
Ok, I ran to Walmart and grabbed them a teracotta dish and will start looking into separating them. I had previously read that keeping them together was bad before the breeder told me otherwise, so that would make more sense. Thank you for the link to the guide, it’s very helpful! And thank you very much for all of the good advice
They are star tortoises. You will likely never see overt obvious hostility like bitting and ramming or mounting. The low grade stress of living as a pair will hamper their immune systems and suppress the appetite of one or the other. Its not good. Many breeders erroneously say this. Some of them know better, but just want to make a sale. They need to be separated.
That walls of the water container are too steep, too tall, and too slippery. Take a hot wheels car and try to drive it into that water container while keeping all four wheels on the ground. See what sort of positions it ends up in. Edges like that don't work for rigid shelled animals. You need something with low sides, an angled entry and exit, shallow water, and some traction for little wet tortoise feet. A terra cotta saucer fits the bill perfectly and they are cheap. Save your baking pan for baking.
I just noticed the humidifier tube in your pic. That is not a good idea either.
Give this a read. It should provide a whole lot of info that will help:
The Best Way To Raise A Sulcata, Leopard, Or Star Tortoise
I chose the title of this care sheet very carefully. Are there other ways to raise babies? Yes. Yes there are, but those ways are not as good. What follows is the BEST way, according to 30 years of research and experimentation with hundreds of babies of many species. Babies hatch during the...
Thank you very much! I’m absolutely in love with them haha. It’s definitely been a bit of a learning curve since getting them and thinking I knew everything needed and then realizing they’re more complicated to take care of than I thought haha, kind of like being a new parent I guess ?. I’m definitely trying to take the best possible care of them though and want them to grow up as healthy and happy as they can! Any advice on that is always appreciated
Just follow Toms thread and youll have no problems. Once everything is set up correctly it is very simple after that.Thank you very much! I’m absolutely in love with them haha. It’s definitely been a bit of a learning curve since getting them and thinking I knew everything needed and then realizing they’re more complicated to take care of than I thought haha, kind of like being a new parent I guess ?. I’m definitely trying to take the best possible care of them though and want them to grow up as healthy and happy as they can! Any advice on that is always appreciated
