acceptable habitat

Hello fellow sulcata tortoise owners 🐢 This may be a very repeated question, but i NEED to know. I've been losing sleep because of it!! I recently became a new tortoise owner after this cute little dude kind of just fell into my lap and I've been loving every second of it. Well, almost every...

Hello Im Richard, just recently got myself a lovely little sulcata fella named Coco (cho'-cho'). A month at most. So I've read couple of newbie guide from this forum, saw lot of youtube and taking advices from local tortoise farm owner (they're pretty nice guys). But, i would like more in...

Hi, I have a 1 year old leopard tortoise, I go back and forth between my mom and my dads house and I recently set up a second enclosure for him at my dads. Initially, he lived at my moms in a 20 gallon tank, and I gave him the exact same set up at my dads. I’ve heard that with some turtles and...

I am a new mom to a 12in long red footed tortoise (max)who we already love.... He needed a new home so we welcomed him. He has an outdoor habitat that I have constructed and he chooses to sleep under our shed rather than anywhere I've put together for him as well as refuses to eat greens. Loves...

Hi all, I'm just asking for advice on where to go with the tortoise home we are building. We have a Russian and he is currently in a 2 foot square vivarium which I know is no good. This is what he came in and not what we put him in. I'll own up and say I got him on a whim and have read quite a...

Hi, I am getting a baby spur thighed tort at the end of next week, I've been doing my research but seem to be hearing completely different ways on what's best. I have a tortoise table as I read that it is better but I've read a few comments on this forum saying otherwise, my house isn't the...

My Russian tortoise is currently 5 inches in length from front to end of shell. The space he is in right now is only 5 cubic feet, so I want to get something bigger set up for him soon. I also want to not poison him with the wrong sealant. I thought the bookcase could be repurposed as it is of...

Hello, I rescued a tort, was told he was bought as a hatchling about 2 years ago. He was in a small 10 gallon tank with feces packed sand, very unsanitary conditions, to be kind. I never owned one of these and my only other tort was a Russian who passed away some time ago. I was told he (the...