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Hzwolun

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First of all happy thanks giving everyone! Glad to be in the community.
Ok, so I kinda want to buy a tort during Black Friday period. I encountered 2 deals that I am interested but I can only pick one. They around the same price, one is albino sulcata at little more than 2inches other one is Aldabra at little more than 5inches. Which one should I pick ?
(few notes: I have 3 Aldabra already at 4-8 inches but I never had a albino sulcata before!I have a 14in Reg sulcata though I got it at 12inchs in size )
Are they hard to care? Albino sulcata I know Aldabra is relatively easy. Please help me decide, thanks
 

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Do you have enough room to house them separately? Never a good idea to mix species. If you do have enough room I'd get the sulcata.
 

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Agree with Yvonne but the sulcata can not live with the Aldabras. A sully will bully and hurt an Aldabra.
 

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First of all happy thanks giving everyone! Glad to be in the community.
Ok, so I kinda want to buy a tort during Black Friday period. I encountered 2 deals that I am interested but I can only pick one. They around the same price, one is albino sulcata at little more than 2inches other one is Aldabra at little more than 5inches. Which one should I pick ?
(few notes: I have 3 Aldabra already at 4-8 inches but I never had a albino sulcata before!I have a 14in Reg sulcata though I got it at 12inchs in size )
Are they hard to care? Albino sulcata I know Aldabra is relatively easy. Please help me decide, thanks
Neither is suited to your climate. Save that money and use it to move to Florida.
 

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It IS always curious to me how people keep large, outdoor tortoises anywhere colder than where we live.

Even here in Northern Florida, it's a bit stressful trying to meet the needs of our ONE Sulcata, and keep him warm and healthy outdoors.
 

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First of all happy thanks giving everyone! Glad to be in the community.
Ok, so I kinda want to buy a tort during Black Friday period. I encountered 2 deals that I am interested but I can only pick one. They around the same price, one is albino sulcata at little more than 2inches other one is Aldabra at little more than 5inches. Which one should I pick ?
(few notes: I have 3 Aldabra already at 4-8 inches but I never had a albino sulcata before!I have a 14in Reg sulcata though I got it at 12inchs in size )
Are they hard to care? Albino sulcata I know Aldabra is relatively easy. Please help me decide, thanks
come on man , asking us if albino sulcata is easy while you are holding a Cuora galbinifrons 😜
your turtle/tortoise keeping experience probably beats 90% of the members here

😜😜
 

Hzwolun

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come on man , asking us if albino sulcata is easy while you are holding a Cuora galbinifrons 😜
your turtle/tortoise keeping experience probably beats 90% of the members here

😜😜
haha good eye,
But yeah I had few of those when I was in china, they are very stable and easy care for cb, specially adult. Not the wild caught ones tho 🤣 they tend to have hard time to eat, but yeah flower back turtle are beautiful creatures.
 

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