Recent content by TylerStewart

You'll want the UVB light across the bulk of the enclosure with the heat light/heat source concentrated in a small area 10-20% of the floorspace, so that there's plenty of opportunity to get away from it. I would set them both on a timer 12-14 hours a day for consistency. We generally feed...

This has a graeca terrestris vibe, likely Syria/Jordan lineage.

Agree with Tom on this, our marginateds don't dig much at all, we have their perimeter buried about 4 inches and they have never made any attempts to get under that (16" wall height that is buried 4", they can't get over 12"). Keep visual barriers, plants, and other cage furniture in there to...

We've been making our Herbal Hay since something like 2011 or 2012 with very little changes, ZooMed didn't have it in the pipeline back then. It's all or almost all organic sourced, but you can't really call it that without being certified organic, so we just don't make that claim.

We use coir a lot for babies, if your supply has a lot of strings, you can quickly run it through a screen and it'll remove almost all of it. We found a local source that has almost no strings in it which has been nice.

Agreed, decades old, imported.

This is definitely a Greek, not a hermanns, likely a Middle Eastern terrestris.

I'd agree with TurtleSteve, looks like a typical Ibera or Ibera mixed with anything. Tunisians have a very unique look, only really confused occasionally with Libyan cyrenaica (which are much larger). Additionally, being and appearing captive bred, there's almost nobody breeding Tunisians in any...

We have had excessive wear when we tried using some curved roof tiles to start off a hide. As they dug around and moved dirt around, they were getting closer and closer to the top, which was basically concrete tile, and we started to see wear from that. We swapped it for wood which is safer to...

We've got a nice load of babies available, all captive bred. These can be purchased from our site directly at https://www.tortoisesupply.com/TortoisesForSale. Shipping for 1-2 babies is $49.95 for UPS Next Day Air within the 48 states. We ship same day if we have the orders early enough (before...

My vet years ago sent me home with that, but Neosporin worked better and quicker, it's a very fast fix.

We (TortoiseSupply.com) have four Indian star babies available, about 3 months old now. Perfectly smooth shells and bright eyes. We've posted them to social media a couple times.

This is a type of greek tortoise and I would agree it's an early shell rot normally seen with red/yellowfoots. Scrub it with an old toothbrush to clean it well, splash some hydrogen peroxide on it, and rinse after an hour or so. Let it dry completely, and put Neosporin on it, and overnight the...

We have lots of baby testudo species, particularly greeks which are some of our favorites. We keep 8 different types of greeks housed separately to keep track of their ID, so we have many options depending what you're looking for. Prices change seasonally and with availability, but here's a...

Apologies for my extended absence from the Forum, I do want and try to get on here, but as was said, I get tired of arguing my beliefs against a few people that are set in their ways and disregard my direct experience in tortoise keeping, really don't have time to go back and fourth, but I'll...