Category: Keeping a Tortoise

Tortoises are primarily herbiverous animals and consume a range of different weeds, grasses, and leafy vegetables, as well as commercially available tortoise feeds. The nutritional needs of each...

If you’re a tortoise lover there’s a good chance you’re a lover of other animals as well. If so you might be wondering if your tortoise can happily interact with your other pets, making you...

I’ve got to be a little bit careful discussing what the ‘easiest’ breeds of tortoise to look after are, for the simple reason that there isn’t really one. All tortoises require a significant...

I don’t know about you, but before I owned a tortoise I didn’t think of them as the sort of animals that dug holes. To me they seemed too heavy and lumbering to do that, burrowing to me seemed...

Unless you subscribe to a fairly radical approach to caring for hatchling and juvenile tortoises then you’ll probably agree that keeping them indoors in a properly set up tortoise table or vivarium...

Having a suitable reptile thermometer is essential for monitoring temperature. I use this simple model by Exo Terra. It's cheap and does the job perfectly We all know that maintaining a consistent...