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  1. Sara-Louise Meyer
    03-10-2008 12:30 PM
    Sara-Louise Meyer
    hi
    I've just purchased a full tortoise kit from Shelled Warriors and from reading articles on your site realise that we have been keeping our Hermanns in the totally wrong conditions. We bought our first hatchling from a pet shop 3 years ago and were sold a vivarium with uv tube and heat mat over half the length of the vivarium, then we got another hatchling a year later which we added to the vivarium. They have turned out to be both male and have started fighting. i have moved the younger tortoise into a small version of an indoor guinea pig cage and have lit this with a daylight bulb and a basking bulb but no uv tube. I am now wanting to buy a correct set up for both of them that will last them into adult hood, I have seen a large pine tortoise table on ebay 4ftx2ftx8" which is suppose to be big enough for adult tortoises. Am i right in thinking that I will not be able to put the two tortoises back together, so would need two tables? Also I'm very confused on what lighting and heat sources I would need. Their diet has been bad too mainly supermarket greens, tomatoes and cucumber, with a few dandelions, although I have put them out to graze on warm days over a clover patch. Since finding your site I have started adding chickweed,forget-me-not etc, the younger one readily accepts the changes in diet but the older one is not so keen, I don't want to take away all his old diet to make him eat the new, but just wanted some advice on how to introduce it gradually.
    I would welcome any advice you can give me, as I don't want to make another expensive mistake on housing for them.

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  • About Sara-Louise Meyer
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    Mother of owner of two male hermanns,Pigwidgeon and Fray Bentos
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    Devon
    Occupation
    Holistic Therapist

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