Tortqueries
New Member
Hello, I hope we are well!
I'm having some issues with my male greek tortoise. I upgraded his indoor enclosure by converting a small storage room into a tortoise table. Had it decked out with rocks to climb over, different substrate in different areas, and around 10 plants in there that I had the intention of adding to as time goes on, with the hope that some of plants grew bigger.
He seemed to love it and everything else is working well, he's done some rearranging (moving a little shelter around, digging/mixing the substrate together etc) but the only thing I'm having issues with is that he has destroyed all the plants in there.
I then added 5 more, this time they were big ones, he destroyed those too.
Overall I've probably tried planting around 40 plants in this enclosure but each time he destroys them before they've even had chance to acclimatise. And I don't just mean eaten them, I mean full on crushed them into oblivion.
The only thing I can think of to do next is just buy 100 plants of varying sizes, bundle them together in different areas of the enclosure and hope that they create enough of a wall that he isn't able to destroy them. But I don't want to spend all that money for him to just obliterate them again but then I see his enclosure all empty of life and it just looks sad, surely he needs this enrichment. Am I missing something crucial here?
I would love to get some advice!
Thank you
PS I also wonder if he just needs to be walking more and considering buying one of those cat wheels that I've seen tortoises use online, does anyone have any success with them?
I'm having some issues with my male greek tortoise. I upgraded his indoor enclosure by converting a small storage room into a tortoise table. Had it decked out with rocks to climb over, different substrate in different areas, and around 10 plants in there that I had the intention of adding to as time goes on, with the hope that some of plants grew bigger.
He seemed to love it and everything else is working well, he's done some rearranging (moving a little shelter around, digging/mixing the substrate together etc) but the only thing I'm having issues with is that he has destroyed all the plants in there.
I then added 5 more, this time they were big ones, he destroyed those too.
Overall I've probably tried planting around 40 plants in this enclosure but each time he destroys them before they've even had chance to acclimatise. And I don't just mean eaten them, I mean full on crushed them into oblivion.
The only thing I can think of to do next is just buy 100 plants of varying sizes, bundle them together in different areas of the enclosure and hope that they create enough of a wall that he isn't able to destroy them. But I don't want to spend all that money for him to just obliterate them again but then I see his enclosure all empty of life and it just looks sad, surely he needs this enrichment. Am I missing something crucial here?
I would love to get some advice!
Thank you
PS I also wonder if he just needs to be walking more and considering buying one of those cat wheels that I've seen tortoises use online, does anyone have any success with them?