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Hey everyone, I just want to start this out by saying I am no where near an expert and this is purely something I've noticed from the one tortoise I own. With that said my little tip is to space out the food you're giving them. Rather than just clumping all the food in one big pile, build a few...

From everything I've heard, even if they are all the same species you should keep them separate. Tortoises don't make friends like us humans do. It just stresses them out and causes fights. Also that's a tiny aquarium, I really hope your planning on giving them each a pretty big place to live...

Yes my tortoise does the same thing. I'm almost positive in my case he just thinks my fingers are big ol worms and he's not yet had the chance to actually eat a worm so he's looking to get a quick taste. I can touch him and pick him up and hold him just fine but when I'm feeding him he always...

Yes listen to this! Lol. I own a juvenile Greek tortoise and I thought their humidity needs were roughly the same. Sorry to give you bad info.

I would massively suggest going online and looking at a leopard tortoise care sheet. It's critically important they have the right diet, hydration, humidity, and uv. I don't own a leopard tortoise so I couldn't tell you personally what you should feed it, but I really don't think hay or flowers...

You're very welcome, happy to help any way I can. I would also definitely recommend trying to make a closed environment to trap humidity, but looking at your set up that may be quite difficult lol. Your set up does look very nice though :) I'm absolutely not trying to insult it, but having most...

I am no tortoise expert but I'm fairly certain a perfectly healthy, hydrated tortoise living in proper humidity levels will not pyramid. Assuming you've kept this all perfect the tortoises whole life it really shouldn't pyramid at all. Many threads I've read say pyramiding is almost completely...

I've been told before to try to avoid flukers land tortoise diet and use mazuri instead. There's a few off brand food that looks exactly like flukers, I would say try to avoid those as well. Luckily my tortoise loves the mazuri LS type. I've also seen some great reviews of the t-Rex colorful...

I love your set up! Looks like she has tons of exploring she can do. Be very careful to check in on her frequently to make sure she hasn't fallen off something and is stuck upside down. That can be a very fast way to lose a cute tortoise who didn't know any better lol :) my tortoise almost...

Just wanted to try to make a thread either recommending this website to people, or warn them about any bad experiences people have had. Personally I bought my baby black Greek tortoise from them and he arrived perfectly healthy. I did have to wait a few months (even though the guy said a few...

My baby tortoise grew black blotches that looked EXACTLY like that and it freaked me out too. Over time it just became a beautiful black design on his plastron. So yeah even though it looks very scary at the begging, as long as it keeps symmetry I wouldn't worry about it. Although if there is...

Yes, all great advise thank you :) forgot to mention that you do have to cut all the way through the screen.

So I know it's not exactly the greatest idea to keep a tortoise in an aquarium, but I think the real truth is that some of us do keep smaller tortoises in them. The problem I had for the longest time was trying to create a makeshift lid to contain humidity while leaving slots open for a sun...

Ok, thanks for the input guys. I'm hoping his head doesn't turn out that shade haha

Im pretty sure it's normal for scales on the head to shed, just wondering if this looks ok. It looks like his head has way outgrown the scales on his head but they aren't loose or peeling or shedding in any way. His neck recently has been shedding for the first time, he's around 7 months old. Is...

Hey guys, I have about a 6 month old Iberian Greek tortoise and I've had him since he was a hatchling. I've kept his humidity between 70-80 percent usually. In the morning it gets down to 55-60 before I mist it down. But anyways, it seems like lately my tortoise has perferred to be dry and no...

Thank you, Chris and Tom. I really appreciate the input and I'm glad it's nothing to worry about :) I'll still change his diet and night time temp though

Again thanks for the response, I really love the community here. So it's totally normal for markings like that to grow on a baby tortoise? He wasn't born with it and it does seem somewhat asymmetrical. Although I'll certainly take your word for it that it's completely normal, just looking out...

Thanks for the response. I'll change his bedding here very soon and just use coco-coir because he really seems to like it. I'll also cut out the flukers for now and start feeding him mainly weeds. Is it safe to get weeds from outside and just rinse them in water? no pesticides are getting...