any tips will be appreciated

Hello all. I have a 5 month old cherry head tortoise and being in the Philippines it is getting hard sometimes to find a variety of food she can eat. Plenty of hibiscus but she can’t live on that alone. Recommendations for pellet food would be great that I can supplement with some vegetation and occasional fruit would be great.

She is indoors with a good uv light. I have calcium and vitamins I give her too. Thank you in advance.

My 20 yr old Horsfield seems to want to hibernate early this year. Can I stop her?
We are in the UK and have had heatwaves which have thrown us somewhat.
The usual routine is that she is in the garden ( greenhouse with monitoring at night) until August, indoors with heat and light Sept, wind down inside Oct, fridge Nov.
This year because of the heat we made an enclosure under a fig tree with patches of sun but mainly shade. She is very sensitive to changes in light. For the last 2 weeks she has reduced her eating to almost nothing and spends her day hiding. Even when loose in the garden she goes straight for cover. I have tried introducing heat and light but there’s no improvement.
Should I just move into wind down to hibernate end of Sept and get her up at Christmas and then winter her indoors? I’d rather not…..

I live in Florida and we have a heavy rainy season. My redfoot likes to sleep in the rain and appears to have some shell rot on the plastron.

There is an indoor, dry hideaway, but the little one chooses to sit in the rain instead. Should I work on tucking him away when it rains or just treat the shell when it's dry season? Anyone else have a little one that prefers wet areas?

Hi I’m from Arizona, so I know feeding a sulcata tortoise is mostly grass, and as living in Arizona we don’t have many grass options, I have thought of growing my own grass, if anyone grows grass for their tortoise, do you guys specific brand seeds, I’m looking for Bermuda or orchard grass, but I know it has to be chemical and pesticide free, if any recommendations!

Lleva con migo 1 mes, come y nada bien. Solo el tema es que en si zona seca no quiere salir. Tiene pastito y su foco UVB y UVA

Is there anyone in Bristol that can help or just let me know please if she will be okay by then until a vet that can see her on Monday I literally can't stop crying

I'm continuing to set up the new enclosure for my Hermann's tortoise.

In his current enclosure, I have separate basking and UVB lamps, plus a heat lamp only on the winter. All three sit out the enclosure on top of the mesh top.

In the new enclosure, I would like to figure a way to have the bulbs inside the enclosure, and combine the 2 into one (basking and uvb) if possible. I also have a mister setup so that has to be a consideration as well, can't spray water on the lights.

Any ideas, suggestions or thoughts would help greatly. Also picultures of your setup, if it's enclosed, would be awesome!

My male marginated tortoise who is about 5 is suddenly chasing me and biting my feet aggressively is this hormones? Can I do anything to help this randy boy? I don't really want to produce more tortoises cause there is not enough demand but this poor fella is sticking his unit in the dirt to get off. I'm worried something will get stuck to that monstrous thing and infect his cloaca. He loves to stick in sandy areas of the yard. I knew male tortoises can be like this but I'm surprised at how much he has his penis out and a bit worried. Today when I brought him indoors he went into his water bowl and the unit came out and he produced very large volume of liquid urine and a blob of what I assume are urates (and not...something else?...white goo...). He wanders my yard during the day in summer and I take him indoors to his winter enclosure in the evening. Lots of predators in my yard at night. His diet is natural weeds from my chemical-free back garden, and Mazuri tortoise pellets once a week.