Marukin
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Sulcarta Tortoise baby hatched
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Welcome to the forum. Those babies are adorable!I will be getting a female sulcata soon. I already have a male. Part of me would like to try for some babies. But I would have no clue what to do with them. I wouldn't want to just give them away. To people who would not care for them correctly.
Hello and welcome. Where in CA are you? Did they ground hatch or did you incubate them?
They need to be in a brooder box set up and kept warm and humid until their umbilical scars close up. If the umbilical scars are already closed up, then they need to be in a warm humid closed chamber with the proper heating and lighting. They will not survive long in a dry cardboard box with no heat or light. They need to be soaked immediately. Keep the soak water warm for the entire time.
Here is what to do with them:
How To Incubate Eggs And Start Hatchlings
I put my eggs in a plastic shoe box with a lid on it and put the shoe box in the incubator. You can drill a couple of very small holes around the top of the container, but not on the lid. I use vermiculite as an incubation media. I mix it in a 1 : 1 ratio with water by weight for Sulcatas and...
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Most of the care info found online is all wrong. Here is the correct care info:
The Best Way To Raise A Sulcata, Leopard, Or Star Tortoise
I chose the title of this care sheet very carefully. Are there other ways to raise babies? 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. Babies hatch during the...
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Info For New People. Please Read This First.
Hello and welcome to tortoiseforum.org! We are all glad you are here! There is no other forum like this anywhere. We have tens of thousands of members from all over the world ranging from kids with their first tortoise to people who have been breeding and keeping high end tortoises since the...
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WELCOME!
PLEASE Read the threads Tom posted above. If kept to dry you are just setting them up for suffering and death. It is a VERY common mistake to start them to dry (just like in your picture) which dehydrates them causing serious kidney issues. I am NOT telling you this to put you down or bash you just saying it for the health and comfort of those beautiful babies. Death sucks and there is no reason or excuse for it, especially in babies. My Family has devoted our lives to housing and caring for animals that have suffered, to look into the eyes of a Tort that has suffered kidney/hydration issues unnecessarily is not a pleasant experience.
PLEASE Read the threads Tom posted above. If kept to dry you are just setting them up for suffering and death. It is a VERY common mistake to start them to dry (just like in your picture) which dehydrates them causing serious kidney issues. I am NOT telling you this to put you down or bash you just saying it for the health and comfort of those beautiful babies. Death sucks and there is no reason or excuse for it, especially in babies. My Family has devoted our lives to housing and caring for animals that have suffered, to look into the eyes of a Tort that has suffered kidney/hydration issues unnecessarily is not a pleasant experience.
Hi, and welcome to the Forum!!
I'm glad you've found us. Your babies will thrive if you read the links given you and set them up in a moist, warm environment.
I'm glad you've found us. Your babies will thrive if you read the links given you and set them up in a moist, warm environment.
Congrats but OMG get them set up correctly ASAP. Egg carton and cardboard box are not good at all.
