Hello! I am planning on getting a marginated tortoise.
I have a couple of questions and it would be a great help if you could answer these for me
1.
When a person says their tortoise is
a hatchling
a juvenile
a subadult
an adult
a breeding-sized tortoise
how big is it? (or more likely, how big should it be? how big would you expect it to be?)
2.
I have never had a tortoise before, and I heard some people recommend a a bigger sized tortoise for beginners, because young tortoises are harder to take care of.
But I am living in Korea and from a lot of tortoise research in Korean websites, it looks like many people are keeping them in poor conditions(like small glass vivariums, coil lamps, newspaper substrate and other things) and doesn't even know the problem. Even the most experienced keepers are doing those (I guess tortoise study doesn't have a long history here compared to some other parts in the world).
So I am a little bit worried about getting a big tortoise. I could take it to a vet, but I wouldn't know so much about stress-related health issues that might come up.
Considering all of the above, what size would you recommend? (preferably in cm)
I am not a native English speaker and I have almost no knowledge of pet-related vocabulary. If any word I used is inappropriate, I am very sorry. Please be generous when correcting me :'(
Thank you for reading. lots of love
I have a couple of questions and it would be a great help if you could answer these for me
1.
When a person says their tortoise is
a hatchling
a juvenile
a subadult
an adult
a breeding-sized tortoise
how big is it? (or more likely, how big should it be? how big would you expect it to be?)
2.
I have never had a tortoise before, and I heard some people recommend a a bigger sized tortoise for beginners, because young tortoises are harder to take care of.
But I am living in Korea and from a lot of tortoise research in Korean websites, it looks like many people are keeping them in poor conditions(like small glass vivariums, coil lamps, newspaper substrate and other things) and doesn't even know the problem. Even the most experienced keepers are doing those (I guess tortoise study doesn't have a long history here compared to some other parts in the world).
So I am a little bit worried about getting a big tortoise. I could take it to a vet, but I wouldn't know so much about stress-related health issues that might come up.
Considering all of the above, what size would you recommend? (preferably in cm)
I am not a native English speaker and I have almost no knowledge of pet-related vocabulary. If any word I used is inappropriate, I am very sorry. Please be generous when correcting me :'(
Thank you for reading. lots of love