red foot tortoise

Hi I want to grow some edible snacks in my red foots enclosure. I am debating on clover or dandelions or fescue grass. I don't expect this to be his main meal I'll still be giving him his normal variety of food. But I am hearing different things. Such as some saying dandelions are too high in...

I’ve always gone to the Tortoiseforum to look for anything i needed help with. Whether it was enclosure to tortoise diet to tortoise behaviors. I never thought my first post here was going to be about the passing of my red foot. I figured I should put this here so that others can read and maybe...

Hi, I am making a new tortoise enclosure for red-footed tortoises that I will be getting soon. It will be 520 cm long, 210 cm wide, and 150 cm high. I live in Ireland, so it will be in an insulated shed. I am getting 3 females and 1 male. Could you recommend whether mercury vapour lights or full...

I have a red foot tortoise he is about 5 month old right now. Pretty much since I got him which was almost 3 months ago he has had watery eyes and some snot bubbles. When I first saw this I immediately thought it was a respiratory induction so I brought him back and asked for help, this girl...

this is yoda my red foot tortoise. He is about 5 months old, and I have noticed that the top of his shell has looked a little more bumpy than it usually is. Does this look like the start of pyramiding? Or is it just new growth

Hello i just bought this enclosure is it fit for a red foot tortoise?

Mature Red Foot Tortoise for Adoption Large (24 pounds, 18” x 11”) male red footed tortoise is available for adoption. I can include many items that are needed to care for him, including a light, heater, mister, enclosure cover, and more. He was abandoned and has been in my care for seven...

Hello everyone! First time posting here, and I apologize because it’s a long one. I am currently working towards getting a red foot tortoise. I don’t have one currently but have been doing research for years on and off, knowing I would one day be getting one. I found this forum a little while...

Hello, I just brought two red-foot tortoises back from Petco yesterday, and I just found that one of them might be sick. We found him foaming and whistling and we took a video (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1C8ce4gOmTEddJylx3H0C_6PIM9NGaSp9/view?usp=sharing) this morning. Can anyone help see...

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...

I stumbled upon this brand of edible dried flowers for tortoises on an online shopping site, has anyone used them, my RF's diet is currently lacking in this type of flower plant, so I want to add this type of food to her diet. How about this brand of dried flowers, is it suitable for RF? (Or any...

He is 2 years old and I have been feeding and bathing him every other day, but every time he eats he hides in his cave and I don't know if that is normal.

I want to know how people determine if the food given to terrapins is reasonable？ Previously I fed my red foot daughter a lot of tortoise food based（Mazuri）, random lettuce veggies and fruits, which led to some protein overload for her.（a little pyramiding back and little obese）and she dislikes...

I've been researching the best UVB bulbs for Red Foot Tortoise. The bulbs I've been looking into include Zoo Med ReptiSun T8 10.0 UVB Lamp, Arcadia, Mega-Ray, Powersun, and the bulbs from ReptileUV website such as the ReptileUV 100watt SunStream. I'm not sure which one is best. There are too...

Hello I was just looking for some help on upgrading my torts vivarium they are getting to 5 years now and starting to look like they need a bigger viv currently they are in a 4 foot viv but I don't know what size of vive to get next or what size of uvb strip light any help would be appreciated...

Hi everyone! My boyfriend gifted me a red foot tortoise for my birthday yesterday. I brought him home, gave him some fresh spinach to eat and water and he explored his new home for awhile, and then he burrowed in the substrate under the hideaway log I have in there. This was last night. I know...

Hi! My red foot Tortilla always has dry skin on his head no matter how much I soak him and how good the humidity is. Someone suggested it actually could be a fungal situation. What do y'all think? Fungal or dryness? What do I do either way? Here's his picture.

Hi guys! My hatchling red foot tortoise is pretty sick=( I'm sure he has a respiratory infection. He had the same symptom about 2 weeks ago, and I needed to wait until to see a doctor. So I gave him a tiny bit of "Doxycycline" in his water, and he drank some, and he was recovering. I still took...

Hello, Professor Chaos is currently dealing with some issues with his back end area. Today during his soak I noticed some reddish looking tissue and some blisters/bumps on the tissue. Does anyone have any idea what these bumps/blisters are or if this is normal/signs of infection? Progression...