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He don't want company, torts are loners !I love him and I hope to one day get a female and have some eggies
He don't want company, torts are loners !I love him and I hope to one day get a female and have some eggies
Baby tortoises are a pain. You need to read up on care and set up the enclosure maintaining proper temps and hidity a few days before you bring them home. I suggest an older juvenile or adult tort for your first tort. Their bodies are more forgiving of first time owners mistakes....Thank you I was thinking of a smaller tortoise. I have been doing lots of research, and I was thanking of an elongated tortoise. Where I live the lowest the temperature gets is 49 degrees, but I can house a baby tortoise indoors till he/she is big enough for outdoors.
I have beeen doing a lot of research, but I was going to do that buy a juvenile or an adult.Baby tortoises are a pain. You need to read up on care and set up the enclosure maintaining proper temps and hidity a few days before you bring them home. I suggest an older juvenile or adult tort for your first tort. Their bodies are more forgiving of first time owners mistakes....
Good. There are many out there that need good homes. Just don't listen too hard to the previous owners care instructions...they may have kept the tort alive but not necessarily by using current methods. Hence my pyramided tort below. When I got him the previous owners told me to keep him dry. He was a 10 inch leopard in a exoterra tank he could barely turn around in. So much has been learned in recent years about the care of torts... you'll have a healthy tort if you use the methods here. A bunch of these folks on this forum run rescues, breed them or just have a bunch for pets...so much more knowledge here than in someone's book!I have beeen doing a lot of research, but I was going to do that buy a juvenile or an adult.
Can I find adoption pages here?Good. There are many out there that need good homes. Just don't listen too hard to the previous owners care instructions...they may have kept the tort alive but not necessarily by using current methods. Hence my pyramided tort below. When I got him the previous owners told me to keep him dry. He was a 10 inch leopard in a exoterra tank he could barely turn around in. So much has been learned in recent years about the care of torts... you'll have a healthy tort if you use the methods here. A bunch of these folks on this forum run rescues, breed them or just have a bunch for pets...so much more knowledge here than in someone's book!
http://www.tortoiseforum.org/forums/adoptions.12/Can I find adoption pages here?