herman tortoise

I am writing this because I wanna plan ahead, I have my Hermann Tortoise and A Russian and I know they both can get up to 10 inches. My question is I really would love to adopt one more tortoise, I was thinking the leopard or the red legged tortoise. I want to know what the minimum requirements...

I was giving my little one a soak and as usual, I check over her shell to see if she is okay. (When I first got her, she had chips missing from her shell) Nothing seemed out of the usual until I flipped her over and seen this pink spot. It's not soft, but it does bubble out VERY slightly. I'm...

I’ve been doing a lot of research on brumation and I was wondering if I should bath him every week whilst he is in brumation, he’s only in there for 3 weeks and I thought I need to do it once a week. People have said yes and no but I want to get an opinion from others! Also I here’s a list of...

hi I’m new on here, we got an amazing Hermann tortoise in August, we think he was about 6 months old when we got him. He’s eating from our hands already and his favourite foods are lambs lettuce, radicchio, cucumber, spring greens. We have tried lots of different foods so far which he turned his...

I have a smaller female Herman’s tortoise, who normally gobbles up everything in her food dish. This past month someone else has been taking care of her since I’ve been sick with pneumonia. I’ve had no contact with her to make her sick, and it’s been an overnight change. She didn’t eat any...