Hi this is regarding my star tortoise whom is about 15yrs old. I tested his urine today and found out that his ph is 5(acidic). Did some research and found that a tortoise urine should be alkaline. My tortoise diet is wheatgrass, mazuri, zoomed grassland and exoterra pellets and chopped hay...
It is very difficult to get weeds and stuff for my tortoise here so i am wondering if this plant that i saw recently at my place if its edible for my star. It looks like dandelion to me but i am not very sure coz it is almost 0 in my country. It has the small little yellow flowers and the white...
So I had kept him for about 10mths already since I adopted him. Everything is great. He put on weight and is now 864g compared to ~600g when i first got him. His hind legs are a lot fatter but he still dosen't walk like how a normal tortoise walk but at least is not dragging as badly.These few...
hi all, not sure if you all remembered sometime ago i adopted this star and it had some dragging leg issues. today i realise smthing else. its about its thoart. when he breaths one side of its thoart is bigger then the other side as if there is something inside but when i feel its thoart i cant...
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this is my first tortoise and it was adopted. It is a male star and he should be 10+years already. From all my readings from the internet, the previous owner had him kept wrongly. He is kept in a small plastic bin and his bedding is newspaper. He is being fed tortoise pellets and...
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i'm so glad that this website had so many tortoise lovers. I had been doing some research from the internet for tortoises and finally ready to keep one. i adopted a star tortoise that was kept by an uncle and he had passed away so his family rehomed the tortoise. they told me that the uncle...