Hey there!
Im in the Central Coast of California, and had to take a Yellow Foot and Sulcatta Tortoise from my dad the other day! My cousins had left them in my grandmothers yard, and they knew nothing of them! They actually thought the Yellow Foot was a "water turtle"! WTF!! I couldn't believe it, so I started telling them alil bit about them, and they just said.... "take them they arent gettting taken care of here!" So now I have a Yellow Foot, and I'm getting the Sulcatta when I am finishing setting up the outdoor enclosure for him!
The Sulcatta is somewhere around 50lbs, and close to 2 1/2-3ft! He is a beast!
The Yellow Foot is fairly small, roughly 6inches. Thankfully I've owned a Red Foot Tortoise before and know about them, but I have had to do major research on the Sulcatta!
My plan is to retrofit a pond that we built in the back yard, but never finished... for the sulcatta, the yellow foot is indoors! I don't know the measurements of it, but it is at least 15ft long, and 10ft wide! I want to make a greenhouse roof to put ontop of the pond, and use Coco Coir and sand mixture for the substrate, maybe some wood chips as a top layer! I also want to build a wooden shelter for the tortoise to go into during the night! Ideally it would have some type of heating element in there! Possibly a "pig blanket" (i think that is what they are called).
I only have pics of the yellow foot, so I'll post them!
If you guys can give me any feedback it would surely help!
Im in the Central Coast of California, and had to take a Yellow Foot and Sulcatta Tortoise from my dad the other day! My cousins had left them in my grandmothers yard, and they knew nothing of them! They actually thought the Yellow Foot was a "water turtle"! WTF!! I couldn't believe it, so I started telling them alil bit about them, and they just said.... "take them they arent gettting taken care of here!" So now I have a Yellow Foot, and I'm getting the Sulcatta when I am finishing setting up the outdoor enclosure for him!
The Sulcatta is somewhere around 50lbs, and close to 2 1/2-3ft! He is a beast!
The Yellow Foot is fairly small, roughly 6inches. Thankfully I've owned a Red Foot Tortoise before and know about them, but I have had to do major research on the Sulcatta!My plan is to retrofit a pond that we built in the back yard, but never finished... for the sulcatta, the yellow foot is indoors! I don't know the measurements of it, but it is at least 15ft long, and 10ft wide! I want to make a greenhouse roof to put ontop of the pond, and use Coco Coir and sand mixture for the substrate, maybe some wood chips as a top layer! I also want to build a wooden shelter for the tortoise to go into during the night! Ideally it would have some type of heating element in there! Possibly a "pig blanket" (i think that is what they are called).
I only have pics of the yellow foot, so I'll post them!
If you guys can give me any feedback it would surely help!
and will look forward to seeing the sulcata....the enclosure you referred to sounds interesting to say the least...pics would be fantastic as well..... 
