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[caldo0779]

What species, size and age tortoise are we talking about?

I posted a picture of him and they said he was a juvenile prob still months old idk and also it’s a Russian tort

 

[The_Four_Toed_Edward]

Is it this tortoise? https://tortoiseforum.org/threads/russian-and-his-enclosure.216456/#post-2129735

 

[Tom]

I posted a picture of him and they said he was a juvenile prob still months old idk and also it’s a Russian tort

I went and looked at your previous picture. You have a full size, wild caught, imported, adult Russian. You need a minimum of 4x8 feet. A 50 gallon tub would only be suitable for a tiny baby tortoise that just hatched.

Here is the care info you need:

The Best Way To Raise Any Temperate Species Of Tortoise

I chose the title of this care sheet very carefully. Are there other ways to raise babies and care for adults? Yes. Yes there are, but those ways are not as good. What follows is the BEST way, according to 30 years of research and experimentation with hundreds of babies of many species. What is...

tortoiseforum.org

Questions are welcome. We will help you get him all set up correctly.

 

[caldo0779]

I went and looked at your previous picture. You have a full size, wild caught, imported, adult Russian. You need a minimum of 4x8 feet. A 50 gallon tub would only be suitable for a tiny baby tortoise that just hatched.

Here is the care info you need:

The Best Way To Raise Any Temperate Species Of Tortoise

I chose the title of this care sheet very carefully. Are there other ways to raise babies and care for adults? Yes. Yes there are, but those ways are not as good. What follows is the BEST way, according to 30 years of research and experimentation with hundreds of babies of many species. What is...

tortoiseforum.org

Questions are welcome. We will help you get him all set up correctl

I went and looked at your previous picture. You have a full size, wild caught, imported, adult Russian. You need a minimum of 4x8 feet. A 50 gallon tub would only be suitable for a tiny baby tortoise that just hatched.

Here is the care info you need:

The Best Way To Raise Any Temperate Species Of Tortoise

I chose the title of this care sheet very carefully. Are there other ways to raise babies and care for adults? Yes. Yes there are, but those ways are not as good. What follows is the BEST way, according to 30 years of research and experimentation with hundreds of babies of many species. What is...

tortoiseforum.org

Questions are welcome. We will help you get him all set up correctly.

are you sure he is a full grown when we first got him there was another one next to her and it looked way bigger I could show more pictures if needed

 

[Tom]

From @caldo0779
"are you sure he is a full grown when we first got him there was another one next to her and it looked way bigger I could show more pictures if needed"

Yes. I am sure. It is likely that yours is a male, and the other was a female. Females are much larger in this species.

Even if my guess is incorrect, tortoises grow at different rates for a wide variety of reasons, and they can reach different sizes for a wide variety of reasons to. Have you ever stood next to a NBA center or an NFL linebacker? I'm going to guess they are significantly larger than you are.

 

[caldo0779]

From @caldo0779
"are you sure he is a full grown when we first got him there was another one next to her and it looked way bigger I could show more pictures if needed"

Yes. I am sure. It is likely that yours is a male, and the other was a female. Females are much larger in this species.

Even if my guess is incorrect, tortoises grow at different rates for a wide variety of reasons, and they can reach different sizes for a wide variety of reasons to. Have you ever stood next to a NBA center or an NFL linebacker? I'm going to guess they are significantly larger than you are.

 

[caldo0779]

So something like this would be big enough?

 

[Tom]

So something like this would be big enough?View attachment 374951

Book cases like this are often recommended, but I don't think these are a good way to go. The backs of these are very thin, flimsy, and usually made of some type of particle board that is going to disintegrate as soon as water touches it. They require so much modification to work, that I don't find it practical or sensible. Also, the depth when standing up, which becomes the wall height when you lay it down, is usually too low once you add in several inches of substrate.

I find it much easier to get a 4x8 foot sheet of plywood, add some 16 inch tall sides to it, put legs on it, and call it good. Its very easy to add an over head beam to hang your lights from too.