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My oldest Hermann's tortoise has started NONSTOP bashing into every side of his enclosure, trying to dig out of it and trying to climb the back walls. He's now starting digging a trench in his substrate at the front of his enclosure as well. This has been going on for a couple of months...

I know this has been posted about before. I have been accidentally neglecting my tortoises' humidity needs. They are in separate 4x2 enclosures with reptichip and Cypress mulch mixed as substrate. I recently noticed that my younger one (19 months old) is pyramiding pretty bad. The slightly older...

I'm not sure what happened to my tortoise's eye...looks like this today. Looked normal yesterday. I did change his arcadia uvb tube out yesterday for a new one. I'm worried he poked it with substrate. I'll be making a vet appointment,but I was just wondering if anyone had seen this before.i was...

I recently purchased another young hermann's tortoise. I was told by a breeder (not the breeder I bought this new one from) that you can keep hermann's together in groups. So I put my new little one with my other one to see what they would do. (I still plan on quarantining, it was more just to...

I bought this tortoise as a Hermann's a few weeks ago. She is bigger than most I've seen pictures of, about 7.5-8 inches long. I have some doubts that she is indeed a Hermann's due to her size and she just looks different to me. Maybe a Greek? Thoughts?