To You Newbies

[Maggie Cummings]

I am new to owning tortoises and I thought well I should get a small baby so it can grow up around me.... I was wrong, I have a four year old sulcata also I realized they are much less work. I am constantly worrying about my baby sulcata and so far I hear that I am doing every thing correct but but I always have doubt in myself! I am home schooled so I am checking on him all the time like once every 15 minutes, he does sleep alot but is also very active. this is his care daily.... mornings I turn on his MVB and make his a mixter of foods that include-green leaf,red leaf,cactus,aloe,grass,cabbage. I soak him daily and he always has water available, he is in a forty gallon breeder and on the hot side it is 100 and on the cool side it fluctuates between 85-90.he has a dry hide and a moist hide and I also spray the whole cage around 5 times a day and a shell spray 4 times a day, he also has a piece of marble that get really warm but not to hot he love basking on that. does this sound like all the right care? I love this little guy to much for him to not have the best at all times I would be devastated to loose him!

I'm sorry that I didn't see this post first time around. Cabbage isn't too good for torts and I always recommend that you don't feed it. It causes gout, it's probably not bad given in small amounts. But small tortoises shouldn't eat it...I use a product called TNT that's made of dried flowers and weeds and stuff they would naturally get in the wild, they don't get this stuff in captivity mostly...I get it at...

http://www.carolinapetsupply.com/catalog/index.php

just my opinion...

 

[Turtlechasers]

How about a mentoring program like they have in falconry???

 

[Maggie Cummings]

How about a mentoring program like they have in falconry???

I don't keep falcons so I basically don't know what your talking about. You mean a sponsor like they have in AA?

 

[Turtlechasers]

How about a mentoring program like they have in falconry???

I don't keep falcons so I basically don't know what your talking about. You mean a sponsor like they have in AA?

Newbies can't keep birds of prey until they have spent time (in some case ten years) under a master falconeer...

 

[Madkins007]

However, part of that is because they are a federally protected species.

 

[lynnedit]

Mark, lovely summary. A good winter doldrums check up.

Just to clarify:
I think Nutrobal is a UK supplement, used a lot there.
TNT is available in the US, I use it too. An excellent weed/flower based supplement w/ or w/o probiotics.