Welcome my babies, Teagan and Addison! :)

[HannahBananah]

I have had my babies for about three months now, and they are five months old. They live in a spacious and exciting tortoise table that I built myself! I bathe them 1-2 times a day and keep some shallow water in their home. I feed them a mixture of mostly kale, bok choy, red leaf lettuce, and mustard greens. I sprinkle vitamins (Calcium and the multi-vitamin) on their morning meal. I feed them 2-3 times a day, or whenever they are hungry, because I am worried about them being underweight. I keep a heat light as well as a UVB light on about 12 hours a day, and mist the enclosure to raise the humidity. There is a heated rock that I turn on occasionally to warm things up, and I put my hand on it every hour or so to make sure it is not too hot. I don't leave it on without monitoring it. That should answer any questions you might have about their care

I love them so much. I bond with them by letting them sleep in my hand and they love to climb on my clothing. I hand feed Teagan at least once day because he is so small. According to my semi-accurate spring scale, Addison is 28 grams, 1.9 in and Teagan is 15 grams, 1.65 in.

Please let me know if there is anything I can do to improve their home or health. Thanks

Teagan

Addison

Their home!

 

[CtTortoiseMom]

Hi & welcome. I think your enclosure is amazing! The only thing I am wondering is if it is warm enough. Maybe adding a CHE or two around their tort mansion would be beneficial. Great job!!

 

[HannahBananah]

Thanks for your response! What does CHE stand for? Is it a type of heat lamp?

 

[HannahBananah]

Also, I measured the temps! 90F under the lamp and 70-75 everywhere else

 

[Jacqui]

Thanks for your response! What does CHE stand for? Is it a type of heat lamp?

Ceramic Heat Emitter (CHE) It's a ceramic bulb that gives out heat, but no light.

 

[wellington]

The vitamins and calcium you are giving. Does the calcium have D3? When they are not out in the sun they do need the D3. However, you shouldn't give it or regular calcium everyday. Once or twice a week is enough. Too much D3 is not good. Also, be sure you have a UVB bulb and no coil type bulbs, they cause eye problems.your enclosure looks great.

 

[HannahBananah]

Oh, the vitamins do have D3, I will cut back on them. I'll replace the one heat bulb with a CHE, that will probably help.

 

[Amber_123]

That's not a tortoise table, it's a tortoise DREAM HOUSE!

 

[Momof4]

I want to see more pics of your enclosure. Welcome!!

 

[HannahBananah]

Amber, thanks so much!!! It was so much fun to build!

It took 5 cans of spray paint- 2 textured paints which didn't go on very evenly, so 1 can of brown, 1 can of polyurethane, and 1 can of polycrylic because I found out that was safer.

Thank you for being so welcoming everyone!

The rocks are in front of the window so they can't see out. Not directly anyway

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Here you can see their skateboard for when they're big enough

And their transformer

 

[mainey34]

Hello and welcome.....BRAVO! That is a cool tort dream home...fantastic job...your babies are some special little ones...

 

[pam]

Welcome great job

 

[Yellow Turtle]

Welcome. You have such an amazing enclosure.