redfoot tortoise

Hi, I have two lovely healthy tortoises that I sadly won't be able to care for when I move from my home to an apartment in 5 weeks. I live in Boston and would like to find a great home for each of them; separate homes are fine. I bought them a few months apart in early 2013 at the New England...

Hello! I have a female Redfoot, age unknown (at least 4 years old) that I unfortunately need to re-home. There is a rescue near me but I have not heard back from them. If by some miracle anyone here is in my area and would love to adopt her, please get in touch. I refused to post on my social...

In September 2024 we rescued Two red foot tortoises, approximately 5 years old. One male, one female. They Were previously held in a garage without proper temperatures, humidity or food Brought to the vet for suspected (and confirmed) respiratory infection once they were rescued. Both went...

It’s disappointing that I have to make this post, as I’d hope that life circumstances would never come to this…. I have been the owner of a redfoot tortoise for almost 9 years now, however I have recently graduated college. It is looking like I will likely be moving and traveling for my job, and...

Hello everyone! My wife and I recently acquired a red foot tortoise that is about 4-5 weeks old. We are unsure how to care for him as many people here let them grow up outside. We are debating whether to create an indoor enclosure for him, but we do have a yard where we could also create an...

My red foot tortoise who I have had for 4 years and believe to be a girl as developed a white blotch on her face a couple days after having been soaked and her enclosure cleaned with a substrate change, she also I have noticed has been chomping at the air almost like a struggle yawn , really...

Hello everyone, My tortoise went missing for 3 weeks. Luckily he turned up in my neighbors house last week Thursday. I noticed today as I was bathing him he has a white soft patch on the bottom of his shell. I noticed once I cleaned it that when I touched it, it was a bit soft and he would...

Hello! I’ve been looking into getting a red foot tortoise, I am located in south florida and from my research figured this would be the best species for the area. I have already found a local breeder and plan to pick one up once we have everything ready but I’m finding so much conflicting...

Hello! I would like to ask the experts what is the locality of my male redfoot? Thank you so much! 😘🙏🏼

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I was giving my 3 yr old redfoot a bath and I noticed one of her plastron scutes had fallen off. I was kind of horrified by that but after a lot of research I started immediately treating her with Beta iodine and a topical skin cream. I also used Chlorhexidine diluted to clean the area scrubbing...

Hey everyone. I have a redfoot tortoise who stopped eating and would flush her nose with water and bubbles would come out. She seemed more drowsy and didn't want to eat but would soak for long periods of time in her water. (This started when having her outside for a few hours and had her...

Hi all its been a while, I have a redfoot , Yoshi, who is roughly between 7-8 years old. The past 2 weeks, periodically, I've noticed after soaking him that there is a pink-like mass that is protruding from his cloaca. It protrudes after he poops and if I lift him up to observe after a few...

Hello, My hatchling redfoot went to the vet. They gave him subcutaneous fluids, ceftazidime, and a gentamicin eye drop. They said he may just be a hatchling that fails to thrive but I wanted to give him a chance. I soak him a few times a day in warm water. Sometimes I had Mazuri diet, carrots...

Hello, I just got a new baby red foot tortoise. My initial plan was to get the set up for a yellow belly slider aquatic turtle; so I had gotten a zoo med basking lamp 75w and a zoo med reptisun 10.0 uvb 13w lamp, which I put both of these in one of those combo light fixtures. I had asked the...

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My 11 year old male redfoot tortoise has become a bit more inactive recently. I'm not too worried, just want to see others opinions. I live in South Florida where its mostly always warm and humid. I have him living outside with a smaller 8 inch female. I've noticed he became more inactive once i...

Hello tortoise lovers. Here is another thread about my redfoot tortoise: he has been not eating anything for more than 10 days, meanwhile, no poop at all. Here are some photos of his enclosure down below: We built this new enclosure on April 2 because his old enclosure might be contaminate by...