Hello there. My Hermann’s tortoise is just under 2 years old. I was observing her beak recently and wondered whether her beak was too long. What are your thoughts? Here is a picture:
Hello everyone. I recently built an outdoor enclosure for my one year old eastern Hermann’s tortoise since during the day, the temperature has been in the high 70s and 80s, but at night, it gets down to the 60s and high 50s. Should I leave him out for the night. I know that younger tortoises...
Hey everyone, i have a yearling tortoise that will only eat weeds when they are cut up into small pieces. I put the full piece of dandelion and other weeds on her feeding rock, but she will just walk over them. Only when I cut up her food will she eat it. Anyone have suggestions for her to...
Hi everyone, I just wanted some insight on whether my tortoise is a boy or a girl. He/she is an eastern Hermann’s tortoise, about the age of 8 months. I personally think my tortoise is a girl because of its short tail, and
I have this ruby peperomia growing and I was wondering if my tortoise can eat it. I searched on the tortoise table, and it mentioned that peperomia was safe, which looked like a different variation of peperomia. Does that mean that ALL peperomia plants are safe fire tortoises including this one...
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I recently got new uvb lights and I was wondering which one would be the most suitable for my enclosure and my tortoise. My Hermann’s tortoise is a baby, about 4-5 months old and the light is estimated to be put about 9 inches from the ground of the enclosure, so I’m just wondering...
I’ve had my baby tortoise for about 2 months already, so they are used to their enclosure by now. They are about 4-5 months old now. I’ve noticed that they used to be pretty active, moving all over their enclosure and eating normally, but now, they are sleeping most of the day and only awake...