Living Arrangements for a Russian Tortoise

Video Transcript

"Our tortoise tank is a little boring. We're going to make it more exciting. The Russian tortoises can have all sorts of different decor for their tank. This is a little half log and the turtle will be able to go and hide in there. He will climb on it and if he flips himself over, he can flip himself back up no problem. You can use all sorts of different things. You just have to be careful to have the tortoise not to chew on it. Another thing we do is we put a little piece of cuddle bone inside his tank. He'll chew on that and that will help keep his beak trimmed and it will make him happy. It will give him a little bit of calcium as well and we're going to add a little bit more of cypress bedding. We don't use the water bowl but you can if you like. If you do use the water bowl, you have to use the water bowl that this guy can climb in and out of. He's going to be able to get into the water bowl and get back out of the water bowl. Now what we do instead of a water bowl is we soak our tortoises and when we soak them, they go to the bathroom and that helps keep the tank a little bit cleaner and makes it for me a little bit easier. We are going to talk about that next."