red food tortoise

I bought a new case(120cm×60cm×60cm) for my red foot and plan to put a Boston fern plant inside. Will its spores cause harm to the tortoise's health ?

Hello, New to the forums and to keeping tortoises! I have a couple of turtles, a RES that is 10yrs old and a baby Painted that's less than a year. I am preparing to add two baby cherry heads to our family and I'm working on getting everything together before they arrive. I've done a lot of...

About a month ago I moved back into my apartment and took my 11 yr old redfoot with me. I started noticing some sneezes and he stopped eating (super weird for him my guy is a piggy). I boosted his temps and he started eating again but still has sneezes/coughs/loud breathing. My mom...

Even if I chop the carrots🥕 and mix them into the food, she can still accurately pick them out😀

Hi! So for two days, I've been trying to mix the ZooMed forest good with fresh veggies and fruit for my daughter's tortoise, Crawlie Lava, and he/she wasn't too happy about it. I would only see him take two bites, stare at it, and then walk off. Well this morning I had an idea. I have the ZooMed...

Hi! I'm new on the forum, I have a baby Red Footed Tortoise. I've run into a problem with him eating his dark greens! He will eat Romaine lettuce and a little bit of parsley, but I'm having trouble getting the little one to eat kale. I have seen him SPIT IT OUT. He will eat carrots, bananas, and...

Hello everyone, first post here so my apologies if this has been covered. I have a young 9 month old Redfoot, I bought him when he was around 5 months. His plastron has always had this weird texture and color, his terrarium is always between 75-90 in his basking area. Humidity is between 70-85...

Is my red foot suffering from heat stroke due to the heat, it's 36 degrees Celsius indoors right now and she's not in direct sunlight but when I was giving her a soak in the evening I noticed she was spitting out clear mucus bubbles! This has never happened before and I'm worried! Now she was...

Mojo being a daredevil.

We lost our baby red footed tortoise last night and we are absolutely devastated. If anyone has any input on things we can change if we ever decide to try again, it would be so greatly appreciated . We got him from a highly rated reptile store at the end of February, the owner was out for the...

Hello! (This is a long one, sorry.) I am in need of some advice/recommendations on an ill baby redfoot. I received Walter, my redfoot tortoise, on January 24th. He hatched on December 1, 2023. I got him from Southern Reptiles. The first few months I had him, he was doing very well; eating...

A family member of mine (In central Florida) is not able to properly care for their red foot tortoise (male, around 7 yrs of age) and is looking for a good new home. Do you have advice where we can rehome him?

I am heartbroken to no longer be able to keep my son's precious Red Foot, Tortie. I lost my son 3 years ago so its very hard for me to let her go. She is approximately 13 years old and very social. She loves to sleep next to my cat in the cat bed and gets along with people and pets. She has a...

Past few weeks/months I've noticed some white marks/blemishes appear on top of my redfoot's shell. At first I didn't take much notice to it as I thought it was shedding + having a dry shell. I also spray her down + her enclosure and the wet shell can hide the white blemishes. I'm starting to...

Hello, My wife and I got 2 cherry heads (Cherry (F) and Berry (M)) 6 months ago we really like them and things have be going well so far (the forums have been very helpful). They are currently in a 2'x4' enclosure and I'm getting ready to build them a larger one. Reading that they...

Howdy, I'm new here and hope to not be annoying BUT I have a tortoise that makes me question the species. 'She' was sold as a redtail but, Ive always questioned that. She was from a local chain pet store, they are great people there and I chose to purchase her after she had been there for 8...

Hi Everyone! In the attached photo, my Redfoot tortoise has this white semicircle ring around the right eye. I tried to wash and rub it away but doesn't seem to go off. The left eye is fine but I can also see a small white sliver starting to form too. Anyone know what this is? Thanks!

A while back I got a new tortoise table built, I lined it with plastic pond liner and roof liner to try and make it water waterproof as possible. Unfortunately, as time went on water got through and now the wood on the base of the tortoise table is starting to get mould on it (starting to worry...

Hi everyone. I just got this red foot juvenile last week. (see pictures) She seems quite shy (which is understandable since she's in new surroundings) but she won't eat much. She eats about the size of her head. Is that normal? Also, she isn't active. She's only hungry at night it seems...