Not our first tortoise. Just not done a sully before and wanted to get it set up right BEFORE we get it! We are wanting a hatchling mostly due to the indoor space we have for an enclosure. I can only do a 2x4 indoors this year. But I’m also a Vet Tech student and my passion is reptiles.
I don’t want to be a “Debi-downer”, but after all the babies I’ve seen die on here. I lost a baby at 1 year, failure to thrive....but they are very fragile. Since seeing too many die, I know I was heart broken !! Perhaps you could contact a rescue, that you could get a lot older tortoise. I was lucky, a friends daughter found one in gas fields in North Dakota. She is my good girl, my friend, my 45 pound baby ?