Now for my shelled friends :) .

It all started with my horsefield Echo. I quite smoking 3 years ago and saved up my ciggy money to get a tortoise (i have always wanted one :D ).

This is Echo



Then i decided to get her a friend, so along came our other horsefield Roxanne.



Then on a trip to a reptile store for supplies, we accidently fell in love with two hermans :wub: .

This is Odin



And this is Naboo



After many attempts at tortoise tables, we decided that Rabbit 140 cages were best.

So each pair enjoy a massive enclosure each :D

Awww do they still hibernate when they live indoors?

They do still hibernate yes. Modern day hibernation is induced by the owner. You need to starve the torts first, then put them in an appropriate hibernation place :) .

I've always fancied a couple of tortoise(s?) is that all the space they would need for 2?

And do you recommend anywhere to get them?

That space is fine for 2 young to juevenile torts. This is providing you go for a smaller breed such as horsefields or hermans :) . I think that cage is about 5ft long. They take about 10 years to grow to full size :shock: .

Where abouts are you? It is best to go to a reputable breeder, sadly i had to get mine at reptile shops as there are no scottish breeders :roll: . Still give it another few years for my hermans to mature and we will see :shuffle: .

Fab torts :D Can i ask what substrate you have there? :D

Thank you :)

They are on hemcore and chipped wood. I find it best, they used to have soil/sand mix, but they just got themselves really messy and tried to eat it.

To be honest, i have changed all my pets onto hemp now, i find it great for bunny trays too and way cheaper than megazorb :thumbup:

Ok thank you, i take it they don't attempt to eat the hemp? All the questions, sorry. :)

Ooh torts !!!! I love 'em !!!! :wub:

Lovely, lovely, lovely. My friend has torts and she puts them in the fridge through hibernation.

Not really no. Very very occasionally i have to retrieve a bit that is hanging out of their mouths, but they dont munch at it the way they did the soil and sand. I dont mind questions, ask away :thumbup:

Thanks Mel :)

Vickie, fridge hibernation is meant to be the easiest way :thumbup: just my fridge has a freezer on top, so it gets too cold :roll: .

One of the teachers at the nursery where my twins went used to breed them and bring them into nursery when they were the size of a 50p piece to show the kiddies. She told me that she used to put them on top of a dustbin full of peat (I think that's what she said) and pop the lid on and they would bury themselves for hibernating. How clever!

My Mom has recently bought a horsefield actually, he lives in a cute little tortoise shell shaped house. He's lovely :bunhug:

Soo cute!! :shuffle:

They are beautiful! me, my sister and my brother when young had one - she was called betty and she lived for what seemed at that time years. I am going back ( more years then I would like to admit!)