Hi, new to the forum and to keeping tortoises and have had my 19month old Horsfield for 2 months now and am finding conflicting advice for substrate. At first I mixed unfertilised soil with sand, then on this forum I've read it's all about moisture, so I changed to moistened Coco coir and got rid of all sand. I mist every day, have set up a humid hide with heat pad and moss and generally constantly keep everything moist.
So I just read an article on the tortoise library about Steppe tortoises and it says substrate must be kept dry! Nothing about moist hide or moist substrate. It even said sand/soil and clay is ideal. I am so confused and really don't want to change substrate yet again! Any advice please? Thanks.
So I just read an article on the tortoise library about Steppe tortoises and it says substrate must be kept dry! Nothing about moist hide or moist substrate. It even said sand/soil and clay is ideal. I am so confused and really don't want to change substrate yet again! Any advice please? Thanks.