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This question probably has a couple of levels to it. Christmas last year, a neighbour bought his wife a Russian tortoise after seeing mine, and she loves reptiles and have various others. To hide it from his wife, we looked after it (in a separate enclosure) for a week or so, and he took it...

I bought some moss back when I first got my RT. I've yet to use it in his enclosure because I'm just not sure how to go about it. What's it for? What are the benefits? Are there any cons/hassles? Is it worth it? My tort has a hide, but he tends to just stop where he drops, so I don't know...

I've had my RT Vince nearly a month now and I can't help it, every time I go round my organic market or the local allotments, I find myself picking little flowers and stems and leaves here and there. Like stealing grapes at the supermarket. It's a crime, I should turn myself in, but he's only...

I've been on here for a few months now and I noticed a difference between UK/US new owners. I can almost guarantee a new owner is from the UK because their baby (normally a Russian) is a hatchling/yearling. However in America a lot of people adopt/rescue nearly adult tortoises. We don't see a...

I've had Vince about two weeks now, and he's had this white mark on his shell since I got him. At first I didn't care/notice, I thought it would wash off. It looks like paint or something that should be able to chip off but it's stuck there no matter how often I soak him, it doesn't look like...

I have my coir dice and moist, take my RT out of his morning soak and as soon as he's back in his enclosure he has it up his arms and all over his face. It's patter down flat yet he still manages to make a mess and I'm constantly having to clean his eyes for him. Anyone else have this...

I was reading something earlier about how Russian tortoises originate close to Afghanistan and the Gobi desert however they're classed as Mediterranean and need high humidity and greens?

Its been a long few months but I've finally got my RT today. I've been on thus forum for months so I feel I know all the advice that everyone gives. However, regardless of what I know from here, the lady I bought him from told me the complete opposite of what I know on here. She told me that...

I'm using coco coir and it's very moist (I hate that word). I'm just wondering if there is any way to stop it growing mould - the white fluffy candy floss looking stuff. It hasn't yet, however pots that I water on my window sill get it sometimes around the edge. I'm hoping that maybe if my tort...

Today I visited the place where I'm going to be getting my Russian, not until a few weeks yet. I was finally able to see them in person and see how they were getting on/acted etc. They're all fairly young, no more than 3 inches and the woman said they were just under a year old. They were in a...

I'm posting this here as I assume this is more a biological question than a casual one. When you get a baby tort obviously there are the questions of whether it's m/f. I'm opting for a male but on the off chance it is female I was wondering if they were any different to care for i.e. when they...

I've already got my Tort table sorted, I know I'm getting a young Russian in January. I just seem to be getting really bogged down with a lot of details. 1- The diet, I don't know the names of many weeds (UK based) let alone their latin names, I've read the info sheets but they all seem so...