The Tortoise Table

Hi Lin and Nina I am still a little worried about Mishka....he has out a tiny bit of weight on and now weighs 532g, at least he hasn't lost any more. However he has hardly eaten anything the last few days and is just constantly sleeping......I find it hard to know whether this is normal. We put him ...

Hi Lin and Nina Thank you for your replies. I am in the UK, in the North East. The photo obviously doesn't show it well, but his outdoor enclosure is all soil, not gravel! His indoor substrate has been replaced and he didn't start in his outdoor one until after his working treatment started. We alwa...

Hi I am getting concerned about Mishka losing weight and still being very lethargic (I posted on a different thread with some questions when we first got him and i did add some photos to this thread afterwards too). He was 550g on 12 May and today weighs 528g. He has recently been wormed as the poo ...

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Hi Nina Thank you so much for al the really useful information. I am sorry it has tajen me so long to reply! Temperature is with a digital thermometer probe at shell height. Cool end is about 20- 21 degrees. He has stopped eating as much, as has been getting less and less active, so we have done a p...

We got our Horsfield tortoise Mishka (who we assume is a boy) a few weeks ago from an animal rescue centre. Nothing was really known of his background or age, he weighs 550g. He is living in a tortoise table inside with soil, and we are building him an enclosure for outside. He has a combined UV/Hea...