Identification

[Lolly_g]

Can anyone identify these tortoises please

 

[glaerey]

Greek, hermann and radiated

 

[Tort-Rex]

You shouldn't be keeping them in the same enclosure, they are different species of tortoises, they all have their own diet, possible diseases, and they're own needs, from what I have heard.
You need to separate them immediately!


-Tort-Rex/Colleen

 

[johnsonnboswell]

Hard to start out, isn't it? That reptile carpet is a bad substrate. Coco coir is much better. It will hold humidity & allow for burrowing.

 

[Lolly_g]

Hi thanks, these are not my tortoises. I have 2 red foots they belong to a friend. I was just hoping for identification so I can then look up individual care requirements and point her in the right direction. It's hard to tell someone that they shouldn't be kept together if they have been doing fine unless I can specially say these need this environment and the other needs something different.

 

[Yvonne G]

Sorry, but I don't see a radiated in that group. Looks like the two smaller ones are Graeca and the larger one is Hermanni. But I'm not real good with the Testudos. The smaller ones might even be little egyptians, but I doubt it.

Let's ask @HermanniChris

 

[lvstorts]

Hi thanks, these are not my tortoises. I have 2 red foots they belong to a friend. I was just hoping for identification so I can then look up individual care requirements and point her in the right direction. It's hard to tell someone that they shouldn't be kept together if they have been doing fine unless I can specially say these need this environment and the other needs something different.

My 2 cents in dealing with your friend: I get this question a lot doing the amount of rescues I do. This is what a I tell people and it usually works: you may not see any outright problems but correct care and environment is the difference between your tortoise outliving you or 'suddenly' dying for 'no reason' before it's 20 years old.


Terese Meyer
www.Northwesttortoise.com
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[Star-of-India]

Sorry, but I don't see a radiated in that group. Looks like the two smaller ones are Graeca and the larger one is Hermanni. But I'm not real good with the Testudos. The smaller ones might even be little egyptians, but I doubt it.

Let's ask @HermanniChris

Yeah, that one in back is awfully bulbous looking and gives the impression of a radiated, but its patterning is too hard to discern. Most people with radiateds know what they have and would tell you.