Hi I am looking for a smaller species of tortoises to keep in my outdoor enclosure in south Florida I currently keep 6 Sulcata tortoises and I have an area that I want to keep some redfoots or hermmans tortoises if you have any that need rehomeing and are located in south Florida please let me...
I was Wondering how many times would a male Sulcata Tortoise have to mate with a female to lay fertile eggs, because I’ve read that in the wild they rarely come across a female so I am just curious to how many mating sessions are needed for a fertile clutch??
Earlier this year my Sulcata laid 2 clutches and each were on the full moon I was wondering if the full moon might have to do with her laying eggs as she has never laid eggs off of a full moon it might just be a weird coincidence
I’ve been looking everywhere but I can’t find what these bumps on one of my tortoises face can be I don’t know if it might be from the Cyprus mulch I’ve been using as bedding or a parasite does anyone know ??
When I bought my female last year she had this on her shell I thought it may have just been from combat or maybe from her hide being to small but it hadn’t healed and I’m just wondering what it is? Is it bad?
I am looking into breeding Hermanns tortoise and I was wondering how big they had to be before mating I know males are usually smaller than females but I can’t seem to find an actual size anywhere.
I’ve been going through my instagram feed and I’ve seen a lot of post from breeders, and all their Sulcata eggs are hatching at the same time. my eggs usually take a month for all the babies to hatch out and they take a while to come out of their eggs.
Does anyone know what I’m doing wrong ?
I moved them while they were hatching to a clean box so they wouldn’t get covered in vermiculite
^the box is use while they are hatching after that I give them a soak and clean off all the egg shells
All the eggs which haven’t started to hatch yet
Last September I got a female Sulcata so that I can breed her with my male that I got ten years ago and she was a pretty small female weighing about 30-40 pounds and I thought she maybe laying 15 eggs but on March 31 she laid 25 eggs and then just 28 days after she laid 22 more I was wondering...