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Fearaffect
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Very cool......yea when gets that big, just use em as a coffee table...lol
ChromaChameleons
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awesome looking paperweight
Funny you say that.... In a few weeks, I'm going to be moving all my adult sulcatas to a different location (the other place I keep torts) in order to give their grass a month to recover. They eat it down to nothing. You could compare it to a putting green. It's nice and green, but the perimeter gets worn out and I need to re-seed it all. Here's one of my big boys, gnawing at what's left of it LOL. I literally do not own a lawnmower.
Dunnigan
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I should get a few of these for my mom so she will stop asking me to drive to her house to mow the grass...(i live an hour or so away)
Redeye
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I want a tort so bad, we have a REAL nice Aldabra at work, but wife will kill me if I spend $3500 on a lawn mower
Sulcata's are wrecking balls with legs, make sure when they get big, you block access to glass door, they will walk right through them
Boss had his sulcata tunnel 25' under the neighbors house digging it's hibernation tunnel
Sulcata's are wrecking balls with legs, make sure when they get big, you block access to glass door, they will walk right through them
Boss had his sulcata tunnel 25' under the neighbors house digging it's hibernation tunnel
Aldabras are the coolest torts... They have real long necks and will go up near their walls around the enclosure and lift their heads over the top to see what's on the other side. Kinda creepy when you just see an eye peeking over the wall looking at you. I have a handful of them, all pretty young still (6-12"). They are pricey though, with babies starting around $2K.
My sulcatas don't do that much damage... My bigger males aren't huge, but around 24" and growing. They never broke glass or anything, although I see how they could if they wanted to. They are very strong (probably stronger than I am in a tug of war, if they had traction). You simply can't pull them backwards out of a tight spot if they don't want to be removed (like a burrow, or between two rocks, etc). The most damage mine have done is push over newly planted fruit trees and eat the leaves. They've gotta be right up there with the most personable tortoises, though. They'll follow you around, gather at your feet if you stand still and eat all day from your hand.
Besides potholes all over the place, mine don't really burrow. If you give them a heated hide in the winter and cool shade in the summer, they have no reason to.
My sulcatas don't do that much damage... My bigger males aren't huge, but around 24" and growing. They never broke glass or anything, although I see how they could if they wanted to. They are very strong (probably stronger than I am in a tug of war, if they had traction). You simply can't pull them backwards out of a tight spot if they don't want to be removed (like a burrow, or between two rocks, etc). The most damage mine have done is push over newly planted fruit trees and eat the leaves. They've gotta be right up there with the most personable tortoises, though. They'll follow you around, gather at your feet if you stand still and eat all day from your hand.
Besides potholes all over the place, mine don't really burrow. If you give them a heated hide in the winter and cool shade in the summer, they have no reason to.
