Today I picked up a little tort that was advertised as a "tahitian" tortoise. I searched Google high and low, and could only find pictures of pens, glasses, giant galapagos at the tahitian zoo, and a sea turtle.
After comparing him with pics of Hermann's torts, I am pretty sure he is a little Hermann's. I was wondering if anyone on here could tell me what kind he is, more specifically? He is captive bred, the previous owner got him as a 1-year-old, he is now 7 years old. He is a little over 5.5 inches, and weighs 475g. Is this a healthy weight? For my Russian torts this would be on the light side...
Here are some pics. Boo still has a ring in his shell from the old owner's chain system... will carefully take that out on Monday.
After comparing him with pics of Hermann's torts, I am pretty sure he is a little Hermann's. I was wondering if anyone on here could tell me what kind he is, more specifically? He is captive bred, the previous owner got him as a 1-year-old, he is now 7 years old. He is a little over 5.5 inches, and weighs 475g. Is this a healthy weight? For my Russian torts this would be on the light side...
Here are some pics. Boo still has a ring in his shell from the old owner's chain system... will carefully take that out on Monday.
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