cutortoisent
New Member
Hello everyone.
New here and very excited to learn more about these amazing animals. I've been researching for a few months and have my setup ready and thought I was ready to get a Marginated Tortoise. I was looking online and contacted a breeder in the UK, I provided them with pics of my setup only to have my confidence utterly shattered by them. I told them that as they were young (10 months old) marginated that I would be keeping the humidity up in the 60-80% area, but they have told me that this is a terrible idea and that high humidity will cause them shell rot and also pyramiding.
They then recommend that I use aspen bedding and have said "these tortoises do not like high humidity and are prone to shell rot from damp substrates". We are currently using a soil based substrate.
I'm very confused as the information they've told me seems to be the opposite of what is on here regarding humidity and substrates. Do they have this wrong, or do I?
Thank you for the replies.
New here and very excited to learn more about these amazing animals. I've been researching for a few months and have my setup ready and thought I was ready to get a Marginated Tortoise. I was looking online and contacted a breeder in the UK, I provided them with pics of my setup only to have my confidence utterly shattered by them. I told them that as they were young (10 months old) marginated that I would be keeping the humidity up in the 60-80% area, but they have told me that this is a terrible idea and that high humidity will cause them shell rot and also pyramiding.
They then recommend that I use aspen bedding and have said "these tortoises do not like high humidity and are prone to shell rot from damp substrates". We are currently using a soil based substrate.
I'm very confused as the information they've told me seems to be the opposite of what is on here regarding humidity and substrates. Do they have this wrong, or do I?
Thank you for the replies.