Sulcata is attracting flies

[Franklin's Dad]

My 35-pound Sulcata, Franklin has been attracting quite a few flies in the past weeks and I can't figure out why. He doesn't smell particularly bad or anything like that. He had been pooping at the foot of his burrow for a while, which attracted flies, but I've been diligent about cleaning that up. Now, even when he walks around the yard, flies seem to be surrounding him. They're the kind of flies that you might see around dog poop on the street.

Any ideas???

 

[144 Grandpa Turtle]

The nut that likes your composter . You live in Phx stack some wood boards in the back yard for fence lizards they will eat your flys . I have hundreds of fence lizards and they still cannt eat all of them but they still try real hard

 

[Franklin's Dad]

Funny, I actually do have lizards (Geckos?) that scurry up and down the block walls.

I actually have some old wood boards I can stack up by the fence.

I'm currently not using the composter. I will one day, probably. I have to figure out how first.

Thanks for the tip.

 

[ascott]

My 35-pound Sulcata, Franklin has been attracting quite a few flies in the past weeks and I can't figure out why. He doesn't smell particularly bad or anything like that. He had been pooping at the foot of his burrow for a while, which attracted flies, but I've been diligent about cleaning that up. Now, even when he walks around the yard, flies seem to be surrounding him. They're the kind of flies that you might see around dog poop on the street.

Any ideas???

Tortoise have a tendency to walk through their own poo...gets stuck on their feet....or poo can be stuck around the bottom on the shell....does the tortoise poo look firm or runny?

 

[Yvonne G]

You need to turn him over and clean him off. Sometimes poop gets stuck up under the shell around the tail. Also, after you've hosed him off well, give him a close inspection to make sure there aren't any open cuts or wounds that would attract flies to lay eggs on.

 

[Franklin's Dad]

Tortoise have a tendency to walk through their own poo...gets stuck on their feet....or poo can be stuck around the bottom on the shell....does the tortoise poo look firm or runny?

His poop is pretty solid, not runny. He pees pretty regularly, too.

 

[144 Grandpa Turtle]

Funny, I actually do have lizards (Geckos?) that scurry up and down the block walls.

I actually have some old wood boards I can stack up by the fence.

I'm currently not using the composter. I will one day, probably. I have to figure out how first.

Thanks for the tip.

With all the stealing of ID's I shread almost everything and put it in my composter . Cause compost is cheep furtalizer . And it keeps land fills from filling up ,

 

[Yvonne G]

I never thought about that. I think I'll take a handful of the shreds out to my worm bed. Thanks for the tip, Grandpa!

 

[Yvonne G]

How about an update, Jason. Is Franklin still attracting flies?