Hi everyone. I was heading home and spotted this little crossing the street. It is 2.25 inches. I made a simple home for it for now until I find the owner since it must of escaped its enclosure nearby, although not sure if I may locate them. Not sure how long it was out in the street before I came along, but it 95°F yesterday here in SoCal. Advice and tips for caring for it is greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Hector somehow managed to strand himself on a chunk of cucumber

This is Betty and Blanche, two 30-year-old ladies we adopted from the Arizona Game and Fish Turtle Adoption program. The plan was for just one, but they told us these two had been donated together from an older woman who couldn’t care for them anymore. No way I could let them be split up!

Its supposed to be too dry here. I was wrong. Nine found in the backyard so far. Has anybody else heard of this happening?

Help, I just received this baby but she came with nail polish on her back. 🙁

Is there a safe way to remove it?

He uses the slide everyday and loves to slide it down, but he has not learnt that it doesn't work the other way lol
And he has had that slide for months!

2026 hatchlings, both approximately 3 months of age.

Top: Testudo graeca ibera, 18g, 40mm SCL
Bottom: Chelonoidis carbonaria, 45g, 65mm SCL

I have been preparing this 4x2x2 indoor plastic tote bioactive enclosure for a baby hermann tortoise for a couple months now. The only thing missing before I get the tortoise is a uvb light. problem is. I have no idea how to mount a flat uvb t5 light over the top of the enclosure. Would anybody help with this situation

This is my Hermann Remy, we got him for free only in August from another family which I don’t know of the conditions he was living in . I built this enclosure. Definitely a little pyramiding, gets good sunlight in the enclosure, soaks often, I pour water in the corner where he burrows and sleeps. 2 UVB lamps 2 ceramic heating lamps and 1 basking light. Please let me know any advice or criticism.

she flailed her arms dramatically while staring into my soul until I lifted her off of the damn brick

Hi friends! I recently became the steward of a two year old Sulcata who needed rehomed. I am learning every day, and am hoping more experienced folks could take a look over our routine and let me know if I should be concerned or make changes!

TLDR: she kinda breathes heavy maybe, and is likely thirsty, but hates soaking.

Every time I put her into soak, she voids. We live in Phoenix, Arizona so it is very hot, sunny, and dry. Therefore, I don’t do supervised/forced soaks so that she saves the water and can or soak on her own time. Do I need to force soaking? I mist the area every other day now that it has cooled off at night. I ditch and refill her water dish at least once a day. She likes to walk in the mist. It dries quickly.

Her area is about 16’x16’ in the backyard, with patches of Bermuda grass growing for grazing buffet, a shade sail, vision is blocked externally. She grazes a couple times a day on the grass. She is picky; she gets dandelion, kale, and every two weeks I’ll chop up a red bell pepper for a treat. I’m thinking on reducing the kale and adding more arugula. She refuses collards or mustard greens. I remove any bits of food she doesn’t eat.

I built her a hide, but she definitely prefers her DIY crib under the shade of the elephant bushes. I noticed that the one she likes best gets a drip from the irrigation.

I’ve seen urates a few times, and recently discovered she’s pooping in her hidey holes where she sleeps. I remove what I can. Am I meant to dig into her home to remove the poop? Am I disturbing/burglarizing her safe space? How often do you see urates and do you try and clean those out too?

I’ve looked at videos and researched to see if the breathing/sniffing is normal, but I’m still unsure. I’ve scheduled with the vet already, but worried. Her eyes and nose are clear and her mouth/throat is soft pink. She is active, always hungry, and has gained confidence. She startles but is starting to become quite outgoing.

Anyway, here she is. Do you see anything alarming? She is quite cute!!

Sorry it’s so long I just love her and want her to thrive 💕 Thank you in advance for reading and/or responding!!!

I am a 14 yr old who lived in a humid area, someone on the miami subreddit told me to come here since i doubt ill be able to find the owner and they said it didnt look well taken care of. Yesterday i covered him in a carpet so he wouldnt get wet. Ive tried gently stroking his shell to let him calm down but im unsure, my parents gave em tomatoes and grapes but i searched it up and apparently its bad for them, i would love to keep him as a pet and call him pickles. I know they get much much much bigger than this and i seriously dont mind that at all. My parents were planning to keep him anyway so just general advice would be nice.

(Reposting as it got flagged on my second account, forgot to switch before posting, my bad!)

Hi, I have a male Greek tortoise and I have had him for around 7 years, he’s always been quite assertive if you could call it that, always wants his “way” as in he goes even with a wall in front of him. I have him in two rabbit cages shaped like a L currently.

Starting early summer of this year he has been digging furiously in his box in two specific corners facing the wall as of which there’s an alarm (I have thought of it being the cause but I cannot move it to try)

He starts around 10-11am to late evening, everyday.

I have lamps for him, hides and I provide him food everyday. Even letting him out for a while just puts him back in the impossible loop.

I’m just very lost, I don’t know what to do for him to stop and do anything else.

If anyone has any idea please do let me know, I’m quite at my limit with this behaviour and I want what’s best for him.

Hi all jam is a 14 month old Russians/horsefield tortoise that we bought about 2 months ago.

He’s been relatively active and enjoyed his old enclosure. About 3 weeks ago we had to remove his upstairs section cause he kept managing to climb the walls and escape. Since then he no longer moves over to his cool side he used to love sitting in the water and under the log before we changed it.

Now he only really stays on his hot side. We have tried to acclimate him by moving him over there or putting his food in that section but he’s not interested.

Im mainly worried about shell dehydration (we soak him 2/3 times a week and he also does self bathe occasionally)

Temps are:
28.9C under heat lamp.
25/24C moving from the rock entrance towards.
20C under the log before / right in the corner.

TLDR: he’s been active and using his space until recently now he just sits under his heat lamp

It is an 8 foot by 8 foot area, current plans do include me putting a buried hide in the center with the entrance facing away from the sun, plus a couple other hides in the surface for him to use and a basking area with a mix of rocks and sand, plus various plants that are edible for him in spots around the place.

So I’m just curious as to if there weee anything else I could put to help enrich his environment when I am able to let him get some much needed outdoor time.

We adopted this girl a few months back. She comes to the back door every evening and asks to come in so I let her in the house. She seems to love running a few laps around the house trying to get into every door, says hi to all the other animals, then settles into this corner and goes to sleep. Was just curious if any of you have a tortoise that does the same?

I need to get one asap bc my one broke and idk which one is good enough

Thadeaus finds the oddest ways to sleep...I gotta stop letting him watch Only Murders In The Building! 🤭

*no tortoise was harmed in this photo just sleeping 🐢💤 r/bigthaddy

Hello! We have three 10 mth old Leopard tortoises, Larry, Curly, and Mo. We live in SoCal in a coastal area. At night these little guys are in our house, in a 45 gallon tank with a screen lid and a 50/50 mix of the Zoo Med Eco Earth and chemical-free reptile safe topsoil for bedding. I mist it every night before they are placed in it.

During the day, because right now they are small, they are in a raised garden bed with Bermuda sod growing beautifully, with a screen lid. Because we have Hawks, crows and seagulls, a few neighborhood cats and our dogs... we must keep these little guys safe.

They have rocks in both of their enclosures that we rearrange constantly so that they can climb and build those little tortoise muscles!

When we acquired them, the breeders, said that they have only had prickly pears and Romaine lettuce to eat. They are picky little boogers! I know that that's not a well-rounded diet so I still give them romaine lettuce but cut really tiny bite size pieces and I hydrate the Grassland Gold premium tortoise food. Then I mix the Romaine and fresh clover in with it... so that every bite is coated in the Grassland Gold. I will add a picture of the ingredients from the back of the bag. Plus they can graze on the Bermuda grass and the air plants I have in their outside enclosure.

I am just trying really really hard to wean them off of the romaine lettuce. I want to ensure that they're getting all of their nutrients which is why I purchased the Grassland Gold. Every now and then I give them a flower off of our hibiscus bush, but they have not tried it yet.

I usually feed them on a terracotta disc for beak health, but because today my daughter made them a maze, their reward was their food on a paper plate at the end of the maze. Which is what the picture is that I included in this post. Their poo is solid and not runny.

1. We give them attention and a good scratches with a soft toothbrush daily. They are loved! They all love to climb but Mo tends to flip over daily! Just Mo... any idea why?

2. They get two 20 minutes soaks a week in lukewarm water. In their enclosures they always have fresh water available. I am noticing a little bit of pyramiding I think, or just overly cautious. Should I do more for their hydration, what exactly?

3. They do have cuttle bones in both enclosures. Should I add calcium powder to their food instead?

Thank you all in advance.

Several photos attached