Artemis The #Tortoise Gets Desert And Dinosaur Themed Vivarium Accessories

 Hi everyone.  This is Artemis the tortoise.

 

Mummy kept her word, and I got some new stuff for my vivarium.  Here's what my vivarium looks like now:                

 

 

Sorry if the background looks a bit crinkled in one or two places.  Grandad did his best, but it's not easy putting those backgrounds in after the vivarium has already been set up.  If he and Mummy had realised how hard it would be, they'd have made sure to sort that first.  But never mind... They'll know to have the background ready for when they're putting the vivarium together if they ever need to be setting up another vivarium (eventually they will have to replace mine, after all, given how long I should live).

Anyway, as you may be able to tell from the photos, she went with a desert theme, and got me some vines (which you might be able to just see behind my cave) and two different kinds of cactus: a star cactus and a finger cactus.  My favourite is the finger cactus... It feels nice against my shell...

As well as the obvious - like my cave, log tunnel, basking slab, gnawing/beak grinding stone, and rockpool design food and water bowls - all of which I had already (though I got the bigger cave and log tunnel last month when I got the bigger vivarium) I also have a bit of random wood Grandad gave me to play on, and a couple of rocky things, which Mummy says are dinosaur bone replicas.  She figured they'd be more interesting for my desert themed vivarium than just plain rocks, and given the whole reptile connection between tortoises and dinosaurs, she just couldn't resist.  To me they're just something interesting to climb on or rub against, but she says they're a random dinosaur bone, and a small T-Rex skull, in case you're interested in spacifically knowing what kinds of dinosaur bone replicas they are.

 

And, yes, the purple thing that looks like a ball is one.  It's a solid plastic ball with a bell in it.  I don't play with it a lot, but I do sometimes like to push it around my vivarium for a little while.

I hope you enjoyed seeing my new setup.  But right now I need a nap...

 

~Artemis