Hello from NC!

Hello everyone!

I'm very happy to become a member of this wonderful community!
Right now I have a rabbit, a green tree frog, a corn snake, and a leopard gecko. No tortoises yet, but I'm looking to get a leopard tortoise sometime, and I'm sure I'll have lots of questions.

--Corvus

Hello and welcome [emoji16]

Hello and welcome. You are doing it the right way. Get all the info and get your enclosure setup before getting your tort. This is coming from a guy that did it the other way. I went by what the pet store said and it was 3 months before finding this forum. So I had everything wrong and was headed to raising a unhealthy sulcata or worse. Not to mention the money I wasted.
Good luck!

Welcome to the forum

Welcome!

Welcome!

Welcome to the forum

Hi, and welcome!

Hello and welcome. The most important thing will be to get a tortoise from the right source. Most people start them far too dry with disastrous results that don't catch up to the tortoise for weeks or months.

Read these for more info:
https://tortoiseforum.org/threads/beginner-mistakes.45180/
https://tortoiseforum.org/threads/how-to-raise-a-healthy-sulcata-or-leopard-version-2-0.79895/
https://tortoiseforum.org/threads/hatchling-failure-syndrome.23493/
https://tortoiseforum.org/threads/how-to-incubate-eggs-and-start-hatchlings.124266/

These threads will arm you with the info to find the right breeder/seller and get a healthy baby to start with.