The Tortoise Table

Hi Lin/NIna Just thought I'd drop a quick update. I spent last week monitoring and making micro ajustments here and there. Tried with and without calcium and it made no difference. And over all not much changed in terms of behavior. However, as of Friday we've had 4 days straight of eating, and yest...

Thanks Lin, I'll see how he gets on. Today is a cold one and the secodnary ceramic heating lamp is on. So glad I got that.

Thanks both - you're quickly becoming my Tortoise guru's. I appreciate your time and what you have looked at and tried to identify and I did try to be as helpful with images and tagging them. Not sure why some ending getting missed. You've clarified a few for me and some I didn't have the foggiest, ...

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Appreciate if they can't all be identified, but any obvious ones would be great.

I havea feeling they're mostly no's as I've pretty much scoured the ok list and can't decide.

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Hi All

Any ideas on any of these? They're randomly growning around my garden and I can't put a name to any despite staring at the database.


Thanks in advance!

Thanks Nina, not bombarded at all - I like data! I have wondered if that's what puts him off, as he sniffs and sometimes recoils. However today I hadn't had chance to put any in before he came over and he gave up before I put any on. So really not sure. Worth a test and do i do have some standard ca...

Thanks Lin & Nina for you detailed responses and pleasant welcome! Spelling isn't my strong point, so pleased about that! Here is an image of the set-up or Jacksonville, and I managed to get a shot of Jack(ie) having a munch yesterday. He actually ate a reasonable amount (for him). But today ate...

Hi All, new to to the forum and looking for some advice. We have a young Horsfield called Jack(ie) and we're not 100% on age but were advised 8 months when we got him 3 months ago, so on that he's around 11 months. He's currently 6.5cm in length and weight is a bit up and down, currently 43grams - t...