Update on Baby Redfoot

[Juddyboii00]

So recently I have been feeding her spring mix with baby carrots chopped up and recently her lamp with the red color died so I went to go get a new one. I got a Phillips lamp that is a normal color and is 90 Watts and operates at 72. She seems to be doing okay but I want to make sure I’m not making any mistakes! I would hate for anything bad to happen!

 

[Yvonne G]

That's a real pretty little tortoise.

For the tortoises that I keep that originate from the rain forest, or the edges of the rain forest, I use the tube type fluorescent UVB bulb like this:


You can buy the light plus the fixture to mount the light in at lightyourreptiles.com.

Tortoises need UVB in order to make their calcium work inside their bodies.

Then, for heat I use this:



This ceramic heat emitter (CHE) can be mounted in a regular clamp fixture, but I don't use the clamp, I hang the light. Those clamps have been known to fail and fall into the enclosure. Because the CHE gets so hot, it needs to be mounted in a ceramic fixture, not a Bakelite (plastic) fixture.

 

[Yvonne G]

Suggested diet from Vicky at the Tortoise Yard:

SUGGESTED GREENS FOR THE BASE-DIET

Turnip greens
Dandelion greens and flowers
Collard greens
Bag Spring Mix
Kale
Chicory
Endive
Escarole
Radicchio
Chickweed
Henbit
Grape leaves
Hibiscus leaves and flowers
Mulberry leaves
Purslane Leaf
plantain
Opuntia cactus pads (spines removed) Red
and Green leaf lettuce and romaine lettuce

VEGETABLES THAT CAN BE ADDED TO THE BASE-DIET

Yellow squash
Zucchini
Pumpkin
Steamed sweet potato
Carrots
Mushrooms
Bell pepper

FRUITS

Any fruits and berries.
Banana and tomato should be kept to a minimum.
No citrus fruits.

MEAT PROTEIN

Steamed or boiled chicken
Steamed or boiled shrimp
Hard boiled eggs
Pinkie mice (thawed)
Live pill bugs, butter worms, meal worms, super worms