Well... not all wild caught have those types of diseases but they still may need rescued. That's the way I look at it when you get one in that manner. S/he's A rescue just the same. They are out there even if we don't help them or do 🤗For
Thank you so much, I am using a temperature infrared gun from the brand Kizen, it seems to be very accurate. I used that same container again this afternoon after I arrived from school but with the CHE, and I have got so say I placed it about 15” from what would be substrate and my results were a lot better, right underneath it is 37 C and areas around it is 36 some inches away from the center is marked as 32 and the coldest part being the conner is sitting at 27, although when I sprayed water it quickly evaporated closer to the center, but it stayed in the conners, I had to throw it away myself. This bulb is so potent, I left it to cool on the dome itself for well over 20 mintues it was still even emmiting heat, this can be potent fire hazard so we must be careful with it.
We have been thinking about making our decision and although I personally do find the leopard tortoise to be prettier in terms of pattern, it just might be too big for us as we do live in a colder part of the country and cannot keep them yea round outside although we plan on moving south in a couple years, we originally were thinking to get a cherry head as they are smaller than red-foots but quite frankly I dont think I can keep up with the humidity demand for them even in a closed space. I could not get much past 80% on my last enclosure without making the substrate a complete swamp.
For those reasons I think we will be choosing a Eastern Herman's.
Because of our previous tortoise we would like to buy a tortoise that is around the yearling and above stage, but the issue that we have is that a lot of older tortoises are wild caught, and we abosultely do not want to beither contribute or allow inside our homes an animal that God knows where it has been and what kind of disease it might have.
We recently heard about a pet shop from Florida that guarantee the heath for their reptiles called Imperial Reptiles, they have all kinds of listing, including Hermanns, but they been marked as sold for months, I’ve been taking a look at their website for well over a year and the only time they add reptiles to their website is around May and June which my guess is when they hatch.