HELP PLEASE! Hermann Tortoise

[Madison Kiley]

I ordered a Hermann tortoise and asked for photos, I guess I didn't really look close enough and was a little overly excited and purchased it. The order is coming in, in a few days but it is from a legitimate reptile store. These are the photos he sent me..
https://twitter.com/maddiekiley8/status/455564197946851329/photo/1
https://twitter.com/maddiekiley8/status/455564295346995200/photo/1
Hermann tortoise?

 

[SeyMourCenTury]

I could be wrong but looks a lot like my Sulcata tortoise.

 

[SeyMourCenTury]

 

[mikeh]

Oh oh, its a sulcata. It will get huge! They sent you a wrong tortoise. In the twitter pics its actually a Greek not Hermanni tortoise, but they sent sulcata. Two screw ups on the seller side. Who did you buy this from?

 

[Elohi]

Oh snap.


Elohi(Earth)

 

[Yvonne G]

No...don't get all excited! It's definitely NOT a sulcata, however, I don't think its a Hermanni either. I think it's a Greek. @HermanniChris will tell you for sure what you've got.

 

[HermanniChris]

It's a Greek (Testudo graeca ssp) for sure. It appears to be T. g. terrestris too. The care for this species is different from Hermann's tortoises. It's a more arid species.

 

[Yvonne G]

I could be wrong but looks a lot like my Sulcata tortoise.

Most baby tortoises look very similar. Sometimes its pretty hard to tell them apart.

 

[mikeh]

Oh oh, its a sulcata. It will get huge! They sent you a wrong tortoise. In the twitter pics its actually a Greek not Hermanni tortoise, but they sent sulcata. Two screw ups on the seller side. Who did you buy this from?

Woops, didn't realize two different people posted photos. My bad.

 

[Yvonne G]

Woops, didn't realize two different people posted photos. My bad.

Yeah, I removed some of seymorcentury's photos to try to make it less confusing.