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These torts know how to keep warm.

Timmy's jaw wide opened with saliva

His tiny bite tickles

We travel a lot, the two torts are like our puppies. We have been to Pittsburgh PA, Cleveland OH, and Lincoln, NH with them. My wife cares for them while I drive. The younger tort crawls around in his pet container and the older one rests on my wife's lap with a towel wrapped around it. To...

Thank you, it's a very special picture.

I was visiting Petco stores and became an expert in detecting the sexes of the tortoises. Petco has well started hatchings, 3-5 inches, the males had long whipped tails touching the legs and the females has short tails and stubby that can not reach the legs. At this time, we can only raise two...

King Tortoise!

I believe the tortoise breeders keep the females for themselves for profitability. All tortoises are territorial and will fight each other. The males have long tail wrapping to their leg. The female tortoises have very short stubby tails. Ask the breeder to send pictures of the tort top and...

I did not like Tortoise Town and Garden State Tortoise!

I can only respond that my two breeders were deceptive. Both have horrible customer service. Shop around and look at their Google reviews. These torts are nice pets. Good luck!

Yes, supposedly they are Eastern Hermanns. Both males, my second tortoise was supposed to be a female, but the breeder sent me another male. A complaint was made with American Express and I was refunded in full for the second tortoise without returning the tortoise because I cared for it for a...

Yes, but they avoid the worms.

Yes, we have our torts under intense UV lighting and heat lamps which gives them the shiny shells and colors. Both are said to be Eastern Hermanns. Our electric bill is expensive!

Both Timmys eating - No Fighting

Timmy enjoying the greens