What tortoise is this?

[luluz]

Can someone help ID this tortoise and gender? What food should i be feeding it? Currently on romaine lettuce for now any feedback is much appreciated!

 

[Elliriyanna]

Can someone help ID this tortoise and gender? What food should i be feeding it? Currently on romaine lettuce for now any feedback is much appreciated!

That looks to be a male Russian Tortoise, I will leave it to those with the most up to date information to be able to tell you more. In the meantime there should be caresheets you can find and you can browse the forum for recommendations

 

[luluz]

That looks to be a male Russian Tortoise, I will leave it to those with the most up to date information to be able to tell you more. In the meantime there should be caresheets you can find and you can browse the forum for recommendations

thank you!

 

[Alex and the Redfoot]

Hello and welcome!

Yes, I agree, it's a Russian tortoise. And he looks like male. Given the shell condition - can be wild caught. Can be 7+ years old (or 17 or 70 - no way to reliably tell by appearance).

General husbandry guide can be found here:
https://tortoiseforum.org/threads/info-for-new-people-please-read-this-first.202363/ (point 10 lists suitable grocery products).

This is more specific care sheet for Russian tortoise (look for Feeding section):

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...

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[Yvonne G]

If you found this tortoise, please try to find its owner.

 

[The_Four_Toed_Edward]

Did you buy this tortoise or found it outside?

 

[Littleredfootbigredheart]

Definitely quite a dry looking male Russian, where was he found?

How are you keeping/plan to keep him?

Is he indoors or outdoors?
If indoors..
What are your temperatures like? Ie basking temp(directly under the bulb), overall day temps, night temps?
What kind of basking bulb are you using specifically? Packaging photos are good if you have any
What’s your indoor uv type?
How’s humidity reading?
What kind of substrate?

A photo of the set up would be wonderful! If you’re willing to share!

In the meantime, hopefully you’ll find this indoor housing thread I made useful, it covers correct equipment(lighting, heating, uv), levels, sizing, appropriately maintaining humidity, substrates, there’s lots of visual examples for everything and a really handy diet link to check out!

Housing adult Russian and Hermans indoors

Hello there! In this thread I’m going to include some information an example of an appropriate indoor set up for an older Herman/russian. As much as it’s encouraged to have tortoises in a safe outdoor enclosure, I understand being from the uk myself, that some climates make it difficult to...

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This one is also really good to familiarise yourself with, it’ll help you avoid the wrong bulbs, substrates, housing etc, I always encourage double checking purchases on the forum too before buying

Common keeping errors

Hello everyone! I’d been a long time lurker on this site long before joining just under a year ago now, over that time I’ve seen these husbandry issues come up time and time again, sometimes with dire consequences☹️ I thought this thread might serve as a good visual guide for these common...

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Welcome to the forum!