Age

[Sight]

How old is the little guy?

 

[Sarah2020]

It is helpful to add weight and dimensions. Have you got kitchen scales and able to weigh in grammes? It is fun to keep a log as they grow. I weight weekly on a Sunday after soak time. Looking at the pic I say under 1 year a hatchling.

 

[Maggie3fan]

Is this a test? He looks dry as hell, he needs a long soak

 

[Sight]

Is this a test? He looks dry as hell, he needs a long soak

Just got him on our way home

 

[Sarah2020]

Was going to comment on the dry legs. Suggest a nice 30 min soak in shallow warm water starting tomorrow... let him settle in tonight. Enjoy .. I think your in for years of fun , hope he is a character.

 

[Yvonne G]

It's a hatchling, probably hatched in September. And since you're in Florida, it's more than likely a gopher tortoise, which is illegal for you to own.

 

[zovick]

It's a hatchling, probably hatched in September. And since you're in Florida, it's more than likely a gopher tortoise, which is illegal for you to own.

Gopher Tortoises have nuchal scutes and this tortoise doesn't have one. It is a sulcata.

 

[Yvonne G]

Gopher Tortoises have nuchal scutes and this tortoise doesn't have one. It is a sulcata.

Aw geeze! I guess I had the Gopherus species on my mind!

 

[Maggie3fan]

Aw geeze! I guess I had the Gopherus species on my mind!

Oh hell no! I should said something, I was right for once.

 

[Sight]

It's a hatchling, probably hatched in September. And since you're in Florida, it's more than likely a gopher tortoise, which is illegal for you to own.

I got him at a pet store it’s a Sulcata

 

[Tom]

I got him at a pet store it’s a Sulcata

Please understand that most of the care info for this species is old, based on incorrect assumptions of how they live in the wild, and just plain wrong. Most likely everything the pet store told you is wrong. If they sold you lighting and housing items, those are likely wrong too.

Here is the current and correct care info:

The Best Way To Raise A Sulcata, Leopard, Or Star Tortoise

I chose the title of this care sheet very carefully. Are there other ways to raise babies? 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. Babies hatch during the...

tortoiseforum.org

About the age: Look closely at your tortoises snout and see if you see a little tiny spike. This is the egg tooth. They usually fall off by about 6 weeks old. If there is still and egg tooth, then this is a new hatching. If not, then its older than 6 weeks. We can tell more from a plastron pic too.