It was my Wife’s idea

[Chris Stannard]

I look forward to gaining some incites and expertise from this highly recommended forum. My Wife and I have kept tortoises as children, and now we are older we are looking forward to our new Herman’s. Gives us an excuse to get the Will ready, and we already have our Grandson showing such great interest. I will update after the collection on Monday. For now the tortoise table is set up and awaiting it’s new owner.

 

[zolasmum]

I look forward to gaining some incites and expertise from this highly recommended forum. My Wife and I have kept tortoises as children, and now we are older we are looking forward to our new Herman’s. Gives us an excuse to get the Will ready, and we already have our Grandson showing such great interest. I will update after the collection on Monday. For now the tortoise table is set up and awaiting it’s new owner.

Welcome from Devon and congratulations. I went to uni in Reading many years ago, and thought it was a great place.
It is so sensible of you to have everything organised before you get your tortoise,and you will have all the help and advice you may need from people here.
We have a Herman's tortoise, and he is almost 22 now - he is well and happy, and the most important member of the household, obviously, but I do wish I had known then what I know now - there was very little information around - and what there was often turned out to be wrong !
Angie

 

[Maro2Bear]

Welcome & good luck with your new tort. Are you planning for a Summer garden/enclosure & then an indoor tort enclosure?

 

[TammyJ]

Welcome and all the best!

 

[Tom]

I look forward to gaining some incites and expertise from this highly recommended forum. My Wife and I have kept tortoises as children, and now we are older we are looking forward to our new Herman’s. Gives us an excuse to get the Will ready, and we already have our Grandson showing such great interest. I will update after the collection on Monday. For now the tortoise table is set up and awaiting it’s new owner.

Hello and welcome.

I want to make you aware that most of the care and housing info you get for tortoises from pet shops and on line is all wrong. Even breeders tend to have and give the wrong care info. Wrong substrate, wrong size or type of enclosure, wrong lights, etc...

If you are getting an adult, then an open table will work great, but it must be at least 122x244cm. If you are getting a baby, then an open table will make it very difficult to maintain the correct temperatures and humidity.

Here is the correct care info:

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...

tortoiseforum.org

Your questions are welcome.

 

[Karen(pebbles)]

Welcome to the forum

 

[Lyn W]

Hi and welcome.
If you follow Tom's up to date caresheet your tort should thrive and there's always someone around to answer questions.
There have been many improvements in tort welfare since I was a kid, so if you post pics of your enclosure you'll get good feedback on making it as safe as possible. As Tom said pet shops know very little about tort care. They often sell unsuitable or unsafe equipment such as lamps that damage eyes or shells, inaccurate thermometers, potentially harmful substrate and dangerous water dishes etc. for profit. There may be things you can return if they aren't right so we could save you some money.

 

[Cathie G]

Hello and welcome 😊

 

[Ray--Opo]

Welcome to the forum!

 

[Yvonne G]

Welcome! I'd love to see pictures once your new guy or gal is all set up.