new pet Sulcata

[coura]

use a lot of humidity such as two mists a day and a soak every day or two, this seems to be the best way to prevent pyramiding which I can see that this little girl already has
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sullys make great personable pets when properly cared for so good luck

Her shell seems sligthly pyramidized, however the best possible way to prevent it going furter is not by creating all that moist, a container for it to soak and a moister corner is more then enough. What she needs its to be outside most of the time with tons of grass, thimoty hay, dandilions, spineless opuncia, hibiscus and clover to munch all day long. Indoors provide good quality uv ligth and a diet as close to what was previously said as possible. As suplements use dark leafy vegetables.

 

[coura]

make sure that it gets a very wide diet of all sorts of fruits and veggies. this will help to prevent pyramiding and will keep your turtle nice and healthy.

Actually most of the vegetables and fruits used in human diet are insuitable for sulcatas and they induce both pyramidizing of the shell, mbd and digestive probs due to lack of fiber. Most are only ok as suplements.

 

[RJF]

I just got in from picking about 10lbs of clovers she seems to like the tortise pellets from petsmart that my box turtles love. going to get some greens for her later. how much water should i let her soak in?

 

[latshki]

Her shell seems sligthly pyramidized, however the best possible way to prevent it going furter is not by creating all that moist, a container for it to soak and a moister corner is more then enough. What she needs its to be outside most of the time with tons of grass, thimoty hay, dandilions, spineless opuncia, hibiscus and clover to munch all day long. Indoors provide good quality uv ligth and a diet as close to what was previously said as possible. As suplements use dark leafy vegetables.

I have been talking to a guy who is finding that humidity is key to sulcatas and leopards, Richard Fife realized that leopards and sullys raised outdoors in florida and louisiana had smooth shells so he took some hatchling leopards and misted them twice a day and gave them soaks and bam smooth shells, now another guy is trying it with sullys and is having the same results


the theory is that sullys do 90% of their growing during the wet season in africa as that is the season where grasses are lush and in the dry season they are usually inactive and spend most of their time in burrows that are still humid and they do not grow much as the plants are generally not nutricious and just filled with water

 

[Nofh 13]

i have all ways had turtles and have learned the hared way not to feed lettus

 

[coura]

I just got in from picking about 10lbs of clovers she seems to like the tortise pellets from petsmart that my box turtles love. going to get some greens for her later. how much water should i let her soak in?

Make shure your not ading something to her diet that may harm her, the only pellet food in the market suitable for this guys is mazuri tortoise food.

 

[coura]

I have been talking to a guy who is finding that humidity is key to sulcatas and leopards, Richard Fife realized that leopards and sullys raised outdoors in florida and louisiana had smooth shells so he took some hatchling leopards and misted them twice a day and gave them soaks and bam smooth shells, now another guy is trying it with sullys and is having the same results


the theory is that sullys do 90% of their growing during the wet season in africa as that is the season where grasses are lush and in the dry season they are usually inactive and spend most of their time in burrows that are still humid and they do not grow much as the plants are generally not nutricious and just filled with water

That is 20% of the truth, try to raise them without all the calcium and fiber rich plants I told earlier and not all the baths in the world would a thing for the toises. Drinking and bathing water is important as well as a more moist corner period, the rest is proper temperatures, diet and regular expossure to direct sun ligth. Actually to much moist is a danger, one of the reasons leopard tortoises did very poorly in the early days was because people didnt realized how dry and warm they needed to be in order to trive.

 

[coura]

I just got in from picking about 10lbs of clovers she seems to like the tortise pellets from petsmart that my box turtles love. going to get some greens for her later. how much water should i let her soak in?

Forgot, just a few inches.

 

[HerpHunter77]

got this girl for less than 100 so im thinking good deal. i have a spare room when she gets big just gonna let her roam theres a lot of diggin she can do now add alot of stuff to her pin. I put her outside every morning along with my other turtles i have. im going to be posting pics of my collection fish and all in the next couple of days. as far as uv goes since shes outside all day is that enough for now or should i get uv bulbs giving her a bath tonight

please do post pics or ur collection. i love seeing other peoples animals. and for soaking, i would let her soak in enogh water that she can easily reach her head out of the water or about half ways up her shell.

 

[TMB]

nice sulcata i have one as well he is over 25 years old. i love him.