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2 yearsAge
MaleSex
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Hermanns Tortoise - Testudo Hermanni
Tortoise1 hour
Tortoise2 yearsMale
£200
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Hello. I have nearly 30 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.
This tortoise for sale is a young Eastern Hermanns (Testudo hermanni boettgeri) - hatched in July of 2023. It is a male. He is nearly 3 years old (2 years and 9 months old) and is just under 10cms long - measuring the plastron.
In 2023 I kept back a group of four of my hatchlings to grow on. I chose the four best looking hatchlings, with very good shell patterns, shell colour and skin colour. I am now selling one of them. As you can see from the picture, this male for sale is very attractive and has excellent shell growth.
He has had a pretty much perfect start to life with a varied weed diet, optimum humidity, access to calcium and 12 percent UVB lighting.
He is big enough to spend most of the year outdoors in a run. Though you should also have a vivarium set up for him - and he can live in there as well.
An overview of what you need for indoors:
Enclosure: A large vivarium or a large deep opaque plastic tub with a lid (some ventilation holes in lid). Tortoise tables are okay, but it is more difficult to get a good amount of humidity in them. It is easier to create the correct humidity inside a vivarium.
Substrate: Top soil and coconut coir mix - I use a 30 / 70 mix. Kept moist at all times (not wet) and loose to enable some burying (which is natural behaviour).
Humidity: 80 - 85 percent is excellen. In my experience, this creates optimum shell growth conditions.
Cork bark and or cork bark tunnels (they like to sleep under these)
Spray bottle for spraying enclosure each day.
Shallow water dish.
Cuttlefish bone and or natural limestone / chalk calcium rocks (they will bite on these for calcium)
Some piles of moss can be great for burying into and for humidity.
Flat slate (place the food on this, it helps to keep the beak trimmed / worn down)
Lighting: Arcadia UVB 12 percent strip bulb. In smaller enclosures and vivariums you can use a 12 percent UVB strip bulb (Arcadia is best) with a ceramic heat source (I would go for a 50 watt ceramic heater - do not go higher than 50 watts in a vivarium) … or you can you used heat mats attached to the side of the enclosure instead of the ceramic heater.
Food: Many different types of weeds and flowers - such as mallow, campanula, dandelion, clover, plantain, cats ears weed, galium aparine, vetch, sedums etc etc. I give mine the occasional small amount of soaked Nutrazu (Mazuri) pellets - around once a week. Very occasional fruit (berries). Coz lettuce, romaine lettuce and lambs lettuce can also be offered from time to time.
Don't hesitate with any questions.
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Location
High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire
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For sale
Age
2 years, 9 months
Breed
Tortoise
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Sex
Male
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