Sulcuta tortoise need help

[Speedy-1]

Glad you are getting squared away , it will get easier !

 

[Antoni]

Glad you are getting squared away , it will get easier !

Thank you so much for the help. Also ur pic of the enclosure was a big help.

 

[Tom]

The setting up was a lil harder than I expected but i had fun tending to what it needs.

Sometimes we all get so serious about all this that we forget that its supposed to be FUN!

Thanks for reminding me.

 

[Antoni]

Hey all, i thought of posting a new thread for raphael but figure ill post here just for further, none critical questions. Hes doing great.. eating twice as much as usual, specially after his soak, he goes straight to the food and munches away..anyway, my question is whether sulcutas are known to swim or not. ive seen different opinions and answers to this. I have but one tortoise and i dont plan to drown him. Is this something i need to wait for him to achieve by a certain size? Or is it just a big no no? Ive seen posts from this site where their sulcutas are swimming. Your thoughts?

 

[JoesMum]

Generally sulcatas are not swimming torts. Providing water to drink and soak in is important. Providing water deep enough to swim in is more likely to be a drowning hazard.

 

[Antoni]

Generally sulcatas are not swimming torts. Providing water to drink and soak in is important. Providing water deep enough to swim in is more likely to be a drowning hazard.

Yes, i have water for him to drink and a diff dish for soak/toilet its a question of curiosity based on infos and other threads here where it shows a sulcuta tortoise swimming. I don't have a dish deep enough to swim or drown in his enclosement.

 

[saginawhxc]

No. Deep water will drown your tortoise. If you saw something about a swimming sulcata it most likely was just a sulcata that really loved to soak itself.