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Originally Posted by abbie227
So my baby hermanns has developed a habit of flipping herself over. I've moved everything that she can fall off but today I watched her try and climb the sides of her table and landed on her shell. I know this can be fatal if she does it under the heat light but will it affect her if she does it at the cool end and she is stuck for a long time? Theres usually one if us in the house but I worry when we are both out she will be upside down for hours x
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This is quite normal for small tortoises.
You just have to keep/regularly check on them to make sure they have not flipped. Eventually they do stop flipping as often.
It can be fatel if they flip under a light, as they dehydrate quite quickly.
What I used to do is treat it as a cloudy day if I was going out, and just switch the heat off for the time I was out. But do remember to switch it back on again:0) They are fine for a few hours without the heat.