hatchling

My baby leopard tortoise is currently undergoing a deworming treatment for 5 days. Im three days into her treatment and I do notice that she has lost her appetite. Yesterday I soaked her in a mixture of pumpkin and butternut squash baby food mixed in with warm water since she hasn't been showing...

I am new to the tortoise world and I have finally figured out what tortoise would be best for my lifestyle and my weather conditions, a Leopard Tortoise. But I do not know where to keep it. I know that they get large when they are adults, but I do not know how to house them when they are young...

Hello, my name is Kirk and i just received my first reptile in the mail yesterday, and Hermes is a male Eastern Hermann's Tortoise. I have a small tortoise table made out of a rubbermaid container with low sides. I have read a lot about lethargic tortoises, but Hermes has been crawling all over...

I just got my new redfoot and yellowfoot hatchlings and this is the setup I made for them. The substrate is coconut coir topped with fir bark. The plants are squash, pumpkin and pet grass. The temperature stays around 83 degrees with 85 to 95 percent humidity. There is sphagnum moss in the hide...

95.7 grams today and now up for adoption! If anyone is interested in adopting this awesome little guy let me know either by post or PM (x-posting in adoptions) I'm not looking for any sort of re-homing fee but if I have to ship, I will need you to pay. Please expect tons of rude questions and...

Hi there, I am new here and I was wondering how shall I feed my 3 months old baby tortoise. I give him a bath in the morning and later put him into enclosure to feed him. He always get more food then he can eat and goes to sleep and later he returns to eat again: sleep , eat repeat pattern...

Howdy folks! Sorry for the newbie questions in advance. We just got a new Baby Leopard he's ~2 months old. He doesn't seem to be eating as much as we think he should be... he's mainly shown interest in Dandelions, Bermuda grass, St Augustine is too thick to bite through from my observation...

One of my Testudo hermanni hatchlings had a very large yolc sack. I never thought it would go so good as it did. 2 Days later it was all absorbed and only a little was left. I had it in the incubator during this time and put him/her on a tape roll so the yolc sack was hanging free. So the...

I have a hatching three toed box turtle. Tonight when I was feeding him mealworms he couldn’t swallow one of them. He was struggling and started gasping so I pulled a piece of it off. It has been an hour and I can still see it in the back of his throat. He is acting normal besides opening his...

It’s my first time going to an expo & I’m getting my first tortoise. I have three questions about buying a hatchling at an expo: (A) What is a good guarantee on a hatchling? A lot of places seem to have a 7-day guarantee & I’m wondering if that’s good or on the low side for a guarantee on a...

I have a 29-gallon heavy duty plastic tub & for my hatchling I’ll need to raise the temperature 10-15 degrees above the temp in my house. The enclosure will be closed chamber or mostly closed chamber depending on how I set it up. I was thinking of getting a 70 - 80 watt CHE & putting it on a...

Is a CRE the best heat source for a red foot hatchling indoors? My dad wants to know why the CRE is better than a infrared heat bulb because he’s worried that the bulb itself gets so hot. Are the mercury vapor bulbs okay for a RF hatchling? I’ve heard RFs don’t like too much light which is why...

How deep should the bedding be for a RF hatchling & how deep of an enclosure should I have indoors (so it can’t escape)? I’ve heard they should have 4-5 inches of bedding (I plan on using clean potting soil with red mulch & sphagnum moss). Is any container too deep that it prevents air flow or...

So a few months ago I got my girlfriend a Sulcata tortoise hatchling and we were both really new to tortoise keeping. She kept it in an old aquatic turtle tank (about a 20 gallon tank if I'm not mistaken), but with no heat lamp. She fed it ledduce and straw berries. Soaked it for 20 min every...

I know that tortoise hatchlings are usually advised against for beginners. I was wondering whether they aren’t advised for beginners in GENERAL, or aren’t recommended for beginners because many beginners don’t do sufficient research or are diligent enough in their care? I’m definitely a...

Hello from Phoenix, Arizona! My boyfriend and I became the very proud keepers of an extremely handsome Redfoot hatchling about a week ago. It's been very helpful to turn to Tortoise Forum for guidance while we prepared everything for our little guy. Thank you to everyone for posting such...

Please Help me determined the gender, ;) i’m newbie

hello! my name is Avery, I'm very new to the tortoise world. I felt very prepared for the little tort to arrive after all my research, right until he actually got here. He (we've been saying he for now) is about two months old and named Allo (picture in my profile pic). my list of questions...

Greetings! I've kept turtles since I was three years old - I'm 21 now and I'm getting a lot more into the hobby recently. Little story: My 3 toed boxie, Roger (not actually sure if male or female, but I will get to that later), was kept in my parent's backyard for most of his life. Typically...

I initially started with a smaller hide, which she really enjoyed and used all the time. For the two weeks I've had her. Thinking to offer more room, switched it out for a larger hide, but she won't go inside. Instead sleeps on the side of it, after roaming around her habitat. I feel she may...