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chocolatechick1980 · Level 2 Joined: 14 May 2005 Posts: 41

What can I do?
I have a land turtle, Redfoot and she doesn't drink water.....I put her to soak in water everyday, is that enough?

dixieee · Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2005 3:09 pm Post subject:

sorry but i found nothing about that..all they said was soak those tortoises in shallow water Rolling Eyes

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Wed 10/27/2004 is the worst day..i lost my best friend Leo

so now i have a female RES, Green, and a cute stupid male YBS, Mint

5/4/2006 RIP Lemon, u were my first rescue and i'm so proud of u. will never 4get u

STRAYKINGFISHER · Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2005 5:48 pm Post subject:

Aren't you supposed to spray them with water as well???, I read that somewhere. Surprised

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dixieee · Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2005 4:10 pm Post subject:

hmm i don't know but i hope that jericho checks soon and answers cz he's got 2 red-foots and would probably know something
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Wed 10/27/2004 is the worst day..i lost my best friend Leo

so now i have a female RES, Green, and a cute stupid male YBS, Mint

5/4/2006 RIP Lemon, u were my first rescue and i'm so proud of u. will never 4get u

centex · Level 3 Joined: 21 Aug 2005 Posts: 319

I would not worry at all. I don't know too much about the redfoot, but I own two sulcata's and a leopards Smile

and this is very common. What kind of diet do you feed to them? If you feed them fresh greens they get most if not all of there water from that as they do not require much water to live to begin with. I have only seen mine drink a few times. Just do make sure to keep soaking them. You are doing everything by the book...don't worry! The younger the tortoise the more often you need to soak ...the older....not so often. Hope this helps!

John

Jericho199 · Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2005 2:16 am Post subject:

I have 2 redfoots. I give them a good spray in the morning (get their substrate wet) and then a 15 min soak later in the day. I noticed they drink while I have them soaking (especially the baby).

Like the above poster said They get a lot of water from the food they eat and absorbing through their skin. So just keep doing what you're doing. Most important part of the soak is that's when they poop Idea