Tortoise Food & Water Bowls

Video Transcript

"The next thing that we're going to talk about that's very important with tortoises is the proper kind of food and water bowl. Tortoises are kind of clumsy creatures and they need large water bowls. Now what I have here is two kind of examples of a food and water bowl. Not necessarily the best example of a water bowl. They're a little misshapen for my desire but preferably for a tortoise you want a water bowl that is large, big enough for them to get into, but shallow. You don't want it to be deep. It needs to be easily accessed by the tortoise and easy to get out of. So if you can't find anything in a pet store, perhaps a large Tupperware or other device that's going to be, again, shallow but large. Big enough for the reptile to get inside. Okay. And then as far as a food bowl goes. You're looking at the same kind of thing. It needs to be shallow but big. Large bodied. Because you're going to be a lot, a lot of greens in there. Tortoises eat a lot, okay. It's very important that we offer the right amount of food to them. Also as a secondary note. Your tortoise is going to enjoy a once a week soak. I generally recommend that you take your tortoise out of its enclosure and put them in like say the bathtub or cat pan filled with about an inch to an inch and a half of lukewarm water. He's going to enjoy that a lot. It'll help him hydrate and it'll actually stimulate him to go to the bathroom outside of his enclosure."