Sulcata pics

[sulcata tortoise #1]

 

[crimson_lotus]

So cute!

 

[sulcata tortoise #1]

Thanks.

 

[Tom]

Your tortoise shouldn't have to scale tall walls to get to its food or water. Those are a real tipping hazard. May I suggest a couple of terra cotta plant saucers sunk into the substrate instead?

 

[russian/sulcata/tortoise]

do you provide a cuttle bone in his enclosure?

 

[sulcata tortoise #1]

I did but he never chewed on it. So now I just put powder calcium on his food.

 

[sulcata tortoise #1]

Your tortoise shouldn't have to scale tall walls to get to its food or water. Those are a real tipping hazard. May I suggest a couple of terra cotta plant saucers sunk into the substrate instead?

I will get this.

 

[leigti]

Until then just sync the bowl down into the substrate.

 

[Jodie]

He has beautiful color.

 

[sulcata tortoise #1]

Thank you and Merry Christmas.

 

[bouaboua]

Happy Holiday to you too.

Nice looking torts.

 

[sulcata tortoise #1]

I wish you all a merry tortmas.

 

[sharkey]

We have 2 sulcAta tortoises and used the exact same food n water dishes. They never flipped the food dish over. They turned 1 year in august. I thought they were perfect for food n water. Had to get bigger ones tho cuz they eat more now.

 

[Dizisdalife]

We have 2 sulcAta tortoises and used the exact same food n water dishes. They never flipped the food dish over. They turned 1 year in august. I thought they were perfect for food n water. Had to get bigger ones tho cuz they eat more now.

Welcome to the Forum, Sharkey. Your experience with these bowls may be the exception rather than the rule. We would like to get to know you and your tortoises better. It would help us if you started a thread to introduce yourself and included some pictures of your tortoises and their habitat.

 

[chaseswife]

Good looking tortoise!
Took my tortoise over a month to start using the cuttle bone. I just leave it on a piece of tile in the corner. Doesn't hurt anything to have it just be there, torts will for sure never use it if they don't have it, and I think the tile provides a good small area of a hard rough surface to file down sharp nails.

 

[Yvonne G]

There are a couple reasons to not use those type food and water bowls - first of all, tortoises don't bend. They have to stick their neck WAY out in order to go up and over then down into the bowl. Baby tortoises really don't want to do that, as it puts them in a vulnerable position. Next, once a baby tortoise is inside that bowl, he has to climb up straight sides to get back out. Quite often a baby will over-balance, and fall backwards into the water, landing on his back and drowning.

 

[Tom]

We have 2 sulcAta tortoises and used the exact same food n water dishes. They never flipped the food dish over. They turned 1 year in august. I thought they were perfect for food n water. Had to get bigger ones tho cuz they eat more now.

The concern is for the tortoise flipping, not the bowl.

 

[Tom]

I did but he never chewed on it. So now I just put powder calcium on his food.

They often ignore them for months, but it is still a good idea to leave one in there. I also use calcium twice a week for babies, but sulcatas are prone to huge growth spurts. The "maintenance" level of sprinkled calcium might not be enough to meet the demands during once of the growth spurts. Having that cuttlebone sitting there will allow the tortoise to self regulate and get more calcium than what you offer in the diet, if it is needed.

I've had six month old cuttle bones devoured in one sitting after being untouched for all that time.

 

[sulcata tortoise #1]

Do you guys think I should buy the zoo med tortoise bone.

 

[leigti]

Do you guys think I should buy the zoo med tortoise bone.

You could try it, but I'm not sure tortoises like it any better then cuttlebone. I definitely don't think it would hurt. is that the one that's green and has other things in it too?