The Tortoise Den

09/04/2023

Happy Easter from all at The Tortoise Den 🐢

Have you got your seed ball and activity set yet? Now is the time to sow your seeds and soak your seed balls to provide your shelled friend with a wide variety of delicious fresh food 🐢🌱☘️🌿🌸🌼

https://www.tortoise-den.co.uk/live-plants-and-seeds/the-tortoise-den-seed-ball-and-activity-set

10/03/2023

❄️❄️ Due to the ongoing weather and travel issues we will not be despatching any product orders today. We will despatch all orders from Monday ❄️❄️

25/11/2022

2022 Stunning Star Tortoises 🐢

https://www.tortoise-den.co.uk/tortoises/star-tortoise-geochelone-elegans-uk-cb-jan-feb-march

https://www.tortoise-den.co.uk/indoor-housing/monkfield-3ft-vivarium-complete-package-l91-l-x-d46-d-x-h46cm-h-suitable-for-leopard-sulcata

07/11/2022

https://www.tortoise-den.co.uk/live-plants-and-seeds/the-tortoise-den-seed-ball-and-activity-set

£14.95

The Tortoise Den seed balls are a mini eco-system that are made from 21 varieties of edible plant species. This eco-system protects the seeds and prevents them from being eaten by birds, insects, ants and slugs.

Simply throw your seed balls on to soil or peat free compost in the garden bed, planter or pot. Leave a gap between each seed ball, once watered and the temperature is good, your seed balls will germinate, sprout then grow and provide your tortoise with a beautiful choice of fresh food.

No expert knowledge or digging required!

A box of magic seed balls that you plant and sow.
These tortoise only seed balls, are full of seeds to grow,
An eco-friendly system, you simply water and throw.

Over time the magic balls will start to germinate,
You’ll have to be quite patient it's a 7-10 week wait.
But when the magic has done it's stuff,
A tortoise edible garden will appear out the mud.
A carpet of weeds, flowers and leafy greens,
The biggest plant based food diet,
your tortoise will ever of seen.

As an additional bonus that these gifts provide,
Is our lovely box and other things inside.
Some more magical seeds that you can sow,
An activity book providing knowledge, you know.

Seed content:
Shepherd’s Purse, Chicory, Field Bindweed, Common Catsear, Nipplewort, Autumn Hawkbit, Rough Hawkbit, Musk Mallow, Common Mallow, Sainfoin, Ribwort Plantain, Greater Plantain, Hoary Plantain, Hedge Mustard, Corn Sowthistle, Smooth Sowthistle, Dandelion, Red Clover, White Clover, Tufted Vetch, Common Vetch.

07/11/2022

https://www.tortoise-den.co.uk/live-plants-and-seeds/the-tortoise-den-seed-ball-and-activity-set

The Tortoise Den seed balls are a mini eco-system that are made from 21 varieties of edible plant species. This eco-system protects the seeds and prevents them from being eaten by birds, insects, ants and slugs.

Simply throw your seed balls on to soil or peat free compost in the garden bed, planter or pot. Leave a gap between each seed ball, once watered and the temperature is good, your seed balls will germinate, sprout then grow and provide your tortoise with a beautiful choice of fresh food.

No expert knowledge or digging required!

A box of magic seed balls that you plant and sow.
These tortoise only seed balls, are full of seeds to grow,
An eco-friendly system, you simply water and throw.

Over time the magic balls will start to germinate,
You’ll have to be quite patient it's a 7-10 week wait.
But when the magic has done it's stuff,
A tortoise edible garden will appear out the mud.
A carpet of weeds, flowers and leafy greens,
The biggest plant based food diet,
your tortoise will ever of seen.

As an additional bonus that these gifts provide,
Is our lovely box and other things inside.
Some more magical seeds that you can sow,
An activity book providing knowledge, you know.

Seed content:
Shepherd’s Purse, Chicory, Field Bindweed, Common Catsear, Nipplewort, Autumn Hawkbit, Rough Hawkbit, Musk Mallow, Common Mallow, Sainfoin, Ribwort Plantain, Greater Plantain, Hoary Plantain, Hedge Mustard, Corn Sowthistle, Smooth Sowthistle, Dandelion, Red Clover, White Clover, Tufted Vetch, Common Vetch.

06/10/2022

***** NEW PRODUCT ***** IN STOCK NOW *****

- 60 Species of grasses, botanicals and weeds
- No waste products used as fillers such as nut shells, maize, sunflower seed husks and soya bean husks
- Developed with zoo vet oversight
- Highly palatable and low waste pressed food

Ingredients:
Grass and botanical mix average 52 species plus the following: Timothy Hay, Dandelion Leaves, Nettle, Plantain, Strawberry Leaves, Blackberry Leaves, Raspberry Leaves, Red Clover, Rose Flowers, Marigold Flowers, Revitalise D3, Bee Pollen, Probiotics, Amino Acid Complex, Carotenoid Powder, FlowerBoost with Dandelion leaves at 2.5g per 100g

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18/09/2022

His Majesty King Charles III has approved a one-off bank holiday for the state funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on Monday 19th September.

Due to this bank holiday, we will be joining the rest of the United Kingdom and the world in mourning. Therefore, as a sign of respect we will be closed for business and will not be despatching any parcels on this day. Normal business will continue to resume on Tuesday 20th September.

Our thoughts are with the members of the Royal Family at this particularly sad and upsetting time.

20/06/2022

If the sun's out, get 'em out! Your tortoise that is! 🐢☘️🌿🌱☀️

As a general rule, if it's t-shirt weather then it's tortoise weather. Tortoise's love to bask in the natural heat of the sun and you can turn off any indoor lighting whilst they are outside, saving a few pennies so it's beneficial all round.

It is essential that when spending time outside, your tortoise has access to clean, fresh water and some shade to enable them to escape from the sun and cool down if they wish.

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23/05/2022

🐢📦 BANK HOLIDAY DELIVERIES 🐢📦

Due to the Jubilee Bank Holiday there will be changes to the usual delivery schedules.

All product orders placed before 1pm on Wednesday 1st June will be delivered on Monday 6th June. Any orders placed after 1pm on Wednesday 1st June will be despatched on Monday 6th June for delivery on Tuesday 7th June.

There will be no animal courier deliveries the week commencing Monday 30th May but will resume back to a normal Thursday delivery service the week commencing Monday 6th June.

We will remain open for visits and collections via a pre-arranged appointment as usual.

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15/10/2021

Friday Forage! 🐢🌸🐢🌿🐢🌱🐢🌼🐢☘️🐢🌵🐢🌷🐢🌹🐢

06/10/2021

********** A SNEAKY PEAK AT SOME NEW PRODUCTS ARRIVING NEXT WEEK! ********** 🐢🌼🌱☘️🌸🌿

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06/08/2021

05/08/2021

23/07/2021

🐢🐢WE'RE ON THE MOVE! 🐢🐢

The Tortoise Den is on the move to new premises and therefore will not be sending out parcels for next day delivery as usual. All product/accessory orders placed between Tuesday 27th July - Tuesday 3rd August 2021 will be despatched from Wednesday 4th August, however if we are able to despatch orders before this date we will of course do so.

Any orders containing a tortoise to be sent with our specialist animal courier will resume weekly from Thursday 5th August (for orders received before 11.30am on Tuesday 3rd August 2021). You can leave us a customer note stating your preferred Thursday delivery date and we will confirm this via email.

Please Note - We will NOT send any tortoises out without a convenient delivery date being confirmed by the customer beforehand.

***** ALL VISITS AND COLLECTS IN PERSON WILL REMAIN STRICTLY VIA A PRE-ARRANGED APPOINTMENT ONLY AS USUAL *****

01/04/2021

15/03/2021