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Hermanns Tortoise (Herman) - Hatchling
14 hours
Tortoise11 weeksMixed
£120
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Adv. Location
High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire
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For sale
Age
11 weeks
Breed
Tortoise
Is Endangered Species
Sex
Mixed
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Hello. I have over 25 years experience breeding and raising Hermann’s tortoises - and I offer free advice for the rest of your tortoises life. I know how to raise healthy tortoises with smooth shell growth.
These babies are Eastern Hermanns (Testudo hermanni boettgeri)
If you would like anymore photos or information just let me know.
Below is an overview of how they have been raised:
They have been living in a large black plastic container (83 cms L by 49cms W by 40 cms D) with a corrugated perspex lid - so as to be able to maintain humidity. They have been kept at roughly 75 - 85 percent humidity, which is very good for them and ensures very good bone growth and shell development.
(Low humidity is a big contributing factor to shell pyramiding)
Their diet has been a wide variety of organic weeds that I grow in my garden: Dandelion, Mallow, Campanula, Sedum, Clover, Vetch, Plantain, Cats Ears etc etc. They have had access to cuttlefish, which they like to munch on. A saucer of water is always available and they will drink when they feel the need.
I use Arcadia 12 percent Pro T5 UVB lighting (Arcadia is very good) - 30 cms above ground level.
For a warm basking area I use heat mats taped to the side of the enclosure at one end under the UVB lighting. Very hot basking lamps dry the air out, and the tortoise, very rapidly - I have seen the best growth with babies using heats mats. You can use a 50 watt basking bulb under or next to the UVB strip instead if you like - but I would not go above 50 watts for a basking bulb.
The substrate has been a mix of coconut coir and top soil (I use more coconut coir than top soil to keep the soil loose in places - as the tortoises like to bury themselves a little bit at night). The soil is kept moist. Tortoises seek out humidity and like to bury into loose moist substrate.
These hatchlings have had an excellent start to life.
You can keep the babies in a large vivarium or a large opaque tub with a cover - the cover will mean that you can maintain some humidity.
They should not be kept in a tortoise table without a cover, as you will not be able to create any significant humidity. If the tortoise table has walls that are 40cms or higher then you could put a perspex cover over the top and have the UVB strip lighting just below the cover. Many tortoise tables are modifiable to include a roof. But it is easier to use a vivarium or tub. I hear that pet shops are still recommending open tortoise tables, basking lamps that are too hot and not advising people about the importance of humidity - which is a shame.
Some sort of opaque tape, or a thin piece of wood, can be attached on, or in front of, the lowest area of the glass on the vivarium if the tortoise paces the glass. This can help them get a sense of their boundaries and the wont try to move through the glass.
Some vivariums may need a little bit of ventilation added to them - but that is easy to do. Wooden vivariums will possibly need some sealing inside to stop moisture getting in the wood at the joins - but this is easy to do with some HA6 sealant.
Swell UK now has nice looking waterproof PVC vivariums which are great for raising tortoises in - they are enclosed so you can create humidity and they have a decent amount of ventilation.
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