First of I'd like to thank you all for your answers. Just to be more specific I'm not against hibernation/brumation but rather in favour because as Boettgeri said I always heard that brumation was a way to keep the natural lifespan of your torts. Having said that I couldn't find scientific...
Hi guys,
I have a male THB that I just got and I am wondering if he needs a proper hibernation this winter.
I live in Malta, a small Mediterranean island south of Sicily. He has a large soiled pen on my roof top where he can browse as he wishes.
Here the winter are rather mild in the sense...
Hi Yvonne,
Yes I did read and even watched few videos that Chris from garden state tortoise did about hermans and or Greeks which helped a lot but I also wanted to be as sure as I could regarding my Herman not to mess too much and offer hybrid offspring when the time comes. If the doubt still...
My bad first post and already wrong category... I also wanted to ask your opinions regarding my tunisian greek and I started with the hermani in the greek category, sorry about it
Hi folks,
New to this forum and also new to tortoise keeping. I purchased recently this colorful hermani male. At first I though i was dealing with a western but the seller assured me it was an eastern. I dont mind to much which one it is, but if I breed him later on I want to be positive about...
Hi Guys,
Just a quick intro about me.
I am a french national living on the tiny island of Malta in the mediterranean sea. I've been keeping reptiles for the last 20 years, mostly snakes, but recently I purchased two tortoises. One is a Testudo graeca Nabeulensis, and the other one is a...