testudo

Hi Hermann parents - anyone from New York/New York city with success brumating hermanns outdoors all year? Would love to hear from you. I have a clutch of adult 6 that I’ve always brought in but now considering brumating.

Hello, I have 3 turtles, 2 Marginatas and 1 Hermanni, they are 6 years old. As babies, I had the 3 together because they told me that they were compatible species. Then I separated them by species when the marginalized began to grow. Always in the terrarium. Now the marginalized are very large...

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...

Hello and greetings from Germany, this is gonna be my first post on this forum and maybe this has been debated to death already but I'm still curious what the anglo-saxon and english speaking international tortoise community thinks about it. I'll soon be a first time owner of a marginated...

Hello! I recently purchased this testudo tortoise from pet smart! No information on the age, sex, or specific species, besides testudo genus. I’m a new tortoise owner and was wondering if anyone was able to tell what exact species of testudo tortoise this is? I also wondering if anyone could...

I have this beautiful hatchling that was produced by garden state tortoise & I’m wondering about normal weight gain. When I acquired her, about 6 weeks ago, she was 25g & now weighs 30g. Is this normal?

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Hey everyone could someone let me know what sub species of spur thigh please She was born August 2018 Sorry the plastron is blurry it also looks like there are darker areas but her plastron is all yellow. I have been a lurker for quite some time.

Hi! I had just purchased a tortoise at Pet Smart about a week ago. They had told me that he was a “testudo tortoise” and upon more research I guess there’s different kinds of Testudo tortoises. I wanted to figure out which one mine is exactly so I can care for him properly. He isn’t eating very...

hello, this is my first post in this forum. I am new here. I have always had aquatic species so this is my first testudo hermanni hermanni. I have cherry trees in my garden and he was roaming around and I think he ate 3 cherries including the pits. It was very fast. I have read they can eat...