Baby Greek Tortoise Care
At night the enclosure temperature can be between 70 and 80 degrees fahrenheit.
Baby greek tortoise care. Feed your tortoise a varied diet and include powdered supplements to keep it healthy. One section of your tortoise s enclosure should be for basking with a heat lamp that maintains a temperature between 95 and 100 degrees fahrenheit during the daytime. Watch our tutorial on how to look after baby. If kept outside these tortoises can handle night temperatures that drop to around 65 degrees fahrenheit.
A water dish in combination with a substrate that retains humidity see following substrate section will do the trick as well. Greek tortoises prefer an environment that s between 75 and 90 degrees fahrenheit. Natural sunlight allows the tortoise to produce the perfect amount of d3 to keep it healthy. Every 1 2 weeks soak your tortoise in a bowl of room temperature water for 10 15 minutes to keep it hydrated.
Some tortoise keepers mush them up other try to. We also feed our baby greek tortoise as well as our adult greek tortoise soaked and mushed mazuri tortoise chow available on our website. To take care of a baby tortoise use a large plastic container as a habitat and set up a heat lamp to maintain temperature and humidity. Take 4 5 pellets per tortoise per day based on tortoises under 1 year old increase 3 5 pellets per year of age and drop them into a cup of warm water for about 8 minutes or until they are swollen and soft.
They can be fed a variety of leafy greens such as collard greens mustard greens red leaf lettuce green leaf lettuce romaine lettuce dandelion greens hibiscus leaves and. Over supplementation of d3 can be harmful to your tortoise. We recommend terrarium moss be used for baby greek tortoises and greek tortoises under 8 months of age to create a humid hide which also is heated in the evenings so that your tortoise can get the hydration it needs for proper shell growth and overall development. Food and water greek tortoises should be fed grasses and mixed vegetables daily.
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