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i have never hibernated a tortoise before and i was wondering when, what time and at what weight to hibernate him.

At the moment i have a 5 year old horsefield tortoise and i am finding it incredible difficult to find food he will eat or look interested in. Have any of you guys got any help or ny food suggestions, i feel like i have tried everything!

is it safe to feed my 5 year old horseflied tortoise celery and celery leaves?

hello I am trying to find things in my garden to feed my 5 year old horsefield tortoise. I am really bad at identifying plants the only plant I really feed him from the garden is dandelions i don't really know what else he can eat, i found some doc leaves and nettles they deem to be sprouting...

I have a horsefield tortoise and i have been looking on websites for new food ideas and most say is your tortoise a fruit eater? And I have no clue weather they are or not (makes me sound really bad) but can anyne help me out?

for a while now my 5 year old male horseflies tortoise has been going off his food but now he has almost completely lost his appetite. I can't even tempt him to eat dandelions and they are his favourite. I have take him to the vets and they did tests but they don't seem to think anything is...

so ....... when i first got my tortoise the lady told us we had to buy nutrobal and komodo cricket dust, she told us to sprinkle them both on his food. over time i began to use it less and less, i never use the cricket dust anymore as it says on the bottle "for live food" and i don't feed him...

At the moment my tortoise Elliot/ Lottie has a diet of bagged salad, sometime cucumber, broccoli, dandelions, tomatoes, grapes, he :<3: avacado,lettuce ( but not and never iceberg), apples, strawberries (when its the season), i also have a cuttle fish in his cage. I was just wondering if this is...

Hello I was just wondering if what time i need to turn my tortoise Elliot uv light off on a night. I am turning it on at around 7 in the morning before I go to work, but unsure at what time to turn it off.

i have recently purchased the komodo tortoise pellets for my 5 year old horseield tortoise Elliot he seems to love them but i have herd from various websites that they are bad for tortoises. It is the only food he seems interested in, i give i pellets as well as fresh food. But he always seems...

I have a 5 year old horse field tortoise and i was wondering how often and for how long should I bath him, he seems to enjoy a bath when i give him one and he likes to drink while in the bath.

hello i was just wondering what temperature day and night to have my horsefields tortoise thermostat at, he (well she) is 5yrs old is this makes a difference

i was just wondering at the moment i have a water bowl in my horse fiend tortoises enclosure but i have read on a few websites this is wrong as it creates moisture in the cage, i don't know wether to get rid of it or not? my tortoise never seems to use it

So ....... i have an enclosure for my horsefield tortoise but i have recently found out that it is apparently all wrong, apparently the one i have is for reptiles but not tortoises. The enclosure I have is a vivarium with two sliding glass panels a heat lamp and a long uv light. It said the one...

Hello my name is Maisy I have a 5 year old male horsefiield tortoise called Elliot but he is acually a girl Lottie. ;)