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Top 5 Misconceptions About Keeping a Tortoise(Post)
What’s the difference between a turtle and a tortoise? All tortoises are turtles, but not all turtles are tortoises. The term “tortoise” refers to the land dwelling, non-aquatic turtles. Here’s wha ...
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What to Do When Your Picky Tortoise Won't Eat Pellet Food(Post)
What to Do When Your Picky Tortoise Won't Eat Pellet Food Have you ever had a pet that just wouldn’t eat what you gave it? We had that experience recently at our house. My daughter brought home ...
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Sulcata Tortoise Enclosure: How Much Space?(Post)
Sulcata Tortoises Need a Lot of Room — Moving Our Male Sulcata to His New Enclosure In case you didn’t see it on our Facebook page recently, the team at the Tye-dyed Iguana just moved our male s ...
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Want to Know the Difference Between a Turtle and a Tortoise?(Post)
Want to Know the Difference Between a Turtle and a Tortoise? Photo courtesy of Tracy Angus-Hammond What the differences are between a turtle and a tortoise is a common question for people to a ...
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Safe Plants for Reptile Enclosures and Outdoor Tortoise Areas(Post)
Gardening with Exotic Pets: What to PlantLast week I covered which plants it’s best to keep out of reptile and amphibian enclosures because of toxicity that can lead to health problems in your herp.
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How to Create a Large Tortoise Habitat(Post)
When you decided to get an exotic pet, did learning a bit of carpentry and landscaping cross your mind? You may have to get your hands a bit dirty to house a shelled companion of your own. You see, s ...
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African Sulcata Tortoise: Care, Size, and What to Expect(Post)
Big. Armored. Destructive. Does that sound like the description of a good pet?It’s more like the description of a kaiju. Yet many people are fanatic about their pet sulcata tortoise.In case you’re no ...
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Can Tortoises Feel Their Shell? Yes, and Here's Where They Love Being Touched(Post)
Do Tortoises Like to Have Their Shell Scratched? Image courtesy of Albrecht Fietz We like to think of tortoise shells as armor, and they are. But it's not the same as a medieval knight wea ...
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Why Is My Tortoise Aggressive? Common Mistakes and How to Fix Them(Post)
Photo by Magdalena Kula MancheeTortoises make pretty cute pets. I mean, have you watched these guys eat? But they can also get pretty aggressive and territorial, like a lot of animals. In general, ho ...