What size Star?

[samstar]

Curious, whats a good size Star to begin with for a tortoise begginer? At what size are they not so fragile?

 

[egyptiandan]

I'm afraid never , but they get less so as they get older.

Danny

 

[J_Foster]

Sam, In my experience, if you can get one that's at least a year old... then you're past the "danger" stage. Once you obtain a yearling in good health, if it gets sick or dies after that then you're either doing something wrong or it caught some rare dangerous disease through some means of which you're not aware. I lost one star at roughly 10 or 11 months old and to this day I can't figure out why. It was feisty, active, and ate like a pig. I bought it at only a few months old, quarantined it for about 3 months, and then kept it with my other star that was about a year older for about 4 or 5 months. They got along great and the little guy was a picture of perfect health. One morning before leaving for work, I fed them and the little one was running around and eating voraciously. When I arrived home that evening, he had both front legs on the side of his hide log and his eyes were closed. I went to pick him up and he was stiff as a board. The other tort was fine. So, unless my other tort is some evil killer, I don't know what went wrong. Jim

 

[samstar]

Thanks, I am thinking of getting another Star soon and just wanted something perhaps closer to a year old. however this time round, I will take it straight to the vet to have the Star de-wormed and checked for parasites.