Thanks everyone for their insightful feedback.
Muffin does have a slightly concave plastron and thicker plate at the tail which made me think male.
The plump tail and high arch scutes made me think female based on this image chart.
I guess there's only one true way to find out; I'll repost...
I recently did a lot of homework on this myself. I currently have a Red Foot Tortoise and am about to adopt a Greek tortoise. Long story short, tortoises live in isolation their entire lives and do not need companionship. Do NOT mix species. You can test it out with the same species, but it...
SInce the Greek Tortoise we're adopting is only 2 years old, we're going to keep it in the terrarium for now.
We'll probably let it out in the yard in the evenings or on weekends when we're home to supervise, but it'll be on this raised platform/dirt area that's completely separate from the...
I live in a temperate climate with low humidity. My exterior set up has a plastic greenhouse from amazon and I hooked up a heater and reptifogger to an automatic hygrometer/temperature controller. My redfoot would sometimes crawl inside and lounge in there, especially on a windy or slightly...
From the research I've been doing, it sounds like everyone who has different species of tortoises keep them separate in all conditions Interior.
Does anyone have any thoughts about them sharing conditions Exterior? Such as in my instance, would I be able to let them both roam a huge, secure...
In my wood pen, I cut a 8" circular hole at the top and screwed the 10" lamp housing to it. On the underside of the opening, I stapled a piece of window mesh (anything perforated to allow heat to pass would help). In the case that the heat emitter / light bulb cracks or breaks, the mesh will...
Deciding whether or not I should rescue this Blonde Greek Tortoise....Here's the current set-up for my one and only tortoise.
I currently have a female red foot tortoise, about 7 years old. Every day I take her out and let her roam my backyard freely (over 1,000 sf of area). Water mister on...
She's about 7 years old now, we adopted her when she was 5. For the longest time we thought she was a he. There was a concaved abdomen and the top was slightly tapered like an hourglass. But over the past 2 years, the hourglass figure went away and we're comparing online images of the tail...
Hi, new to this forum, from San Jose, CA. I rescued a 5 year old Red foot tortoise back in 2015. It's been a lot of work trying to figure out the right environment and setup to accommodate the seasons; we try to let him out in the yard as much as possible. Will be asking a few new owner...