Tortoise Care

First and foremost, you must buy lots and lots of worms to feed to your tortoise. This is the number one rule in tortoise care. You may buy these at any pet shops. Tortoise whether a new hatchling or adult does not like to any disruptions. They need extra love and care from you.

Once they got used to their area, do not try to move tings around. Check your tortoise as often as you can for any symptoms that he is not well. I f you notice that his nose and eyes are both watery and runny and he suddenly lose his appetite, then you’d better see your vet immediately. Tortoise care requires  a lot of attention from its owner for them to be able to last long. When given proper care, your tortoise might live up to 40 years or more!

Here are some guidelines about care that you must consider when you are planning to get a tortoise for a pet

1. You must provide a galvanized stock water trough or a stable pen for large sized tortoise while a glass aquarium for small tortoise will be just fine.
2. You may use a radiant heat source such as a heat lamp. The optimal temperature must stay at 26 to 38 degree Celsius.
3. Make use of alfalfa pellets or newspapers to cover the tortoise shelter. Never use any sand, artificial grass, ground corncob or even resinous wood chips because if these are swallowed will surely cause intestinal problems.
4. Provide and place a full –spectrum, ultraviolet light source which will surely help your pet tortoise  to absorbs vitamin D thus will prevent him in acquiring metabolic bone disease.
5. If you have adult tortoise, you must feed them three times a week while hatchlings must be fed every day.
6. The tortoise diet must consist of 85% veggies, 10% fruits and less than 5% protein to make a balanced diet.
7. Sprinkle their food with lactate, gluconate and calcium carbonate every time you feed them.
8. Sprinkle their food with multivitamins every twice a month.

In tortoise care you must also provide your tortoise veggies such as collard, cabbage, mustard and backyard grasses. They also need to munch on some timothy hay and alfalfa pellets. They need fruits a swell such as grapes, apples, pears, oranges, peaches, plums, berries and banana.

Your tortoise, in addition, must have his protein intake too such as dry dog food, primate chow, pelleted parrot chow and even sardines with bones. Tortoise care doesn’t just have to be the right kind of food, shelter as well as their meds. It is also about love and extra load of attention from its owner. These factors will make their lives last longer if you will apply these things to your pet.