The Tortoise Table

6th day since Jeff was missing...

Jeff is nowhere to be seen.
Today is cold, windy and rainy, so wherever he is, I don’t think he’s gonna show up...

I hope that tomorrow will be a better day to look for him.

I’ll keep you updated.

Lucre

Hey guys how is it going? Jeff is nowhere to be seen, but today we put the tomatoes and the strawberries and some water dishes in case he was hungry or thirsty. Today I placed a net 1x1 cm in the holes he could pass through... I hope that he did not find a way out before I put those... but I don’t t...

Thanks Nina The fact is a week ago we basically we sow our garden, we did a mess and every part of the garden is now loose soil so I should dig the whole garden before I could find any trace of his borrow. As you suggested, tomorrow morning I’ll put some tomatoes (I don’t have them now but I’ll buy ...

It has been 48 hours since Jeff is missing... I tried everything. I don’t have a big garden, and I searched inch by inch every place that I thought he could fit. I tried to look under his favourite bush of rosemary, under the ivy we grow, under the canary cage and under the storage space we keep our...

Here is tort number 3!

Here is a picture of 1 (Jeff, on the right) and number 2 (friend’s tort, left) next to each other. My friend told me 2 was born on the same moth of Jeff, September 2019... but 2 was twice as heavy than Jeff. And 2 has a lot of growth rings, like if 2 was older than it seems. Do you know why? Are bab...

Here is tort number 2

I believe 2 and 3 are both Herman’s but I don’t know...

Good morning again! This night I received another mail from Mr.Leone. I quote: “It appears to be the Asia Minor tortoise (Testudo graeca ibera) or what we many people refer to as the “ibera Greek”.” So yeah, little Jeff is a Testudo Graeca ibera. Now we wait to receive the pictures of the other two ...

Soooo... Mr.Leone from GardenStateTortoise told me, I quote: “Without a doubt you have a Testudo graeca, Greek tortoise.” So now I need to search up a correct growing chart and see what can I do for my little Jeff (he is sleeping on my porch now). I mean, I don’t think his diet will vary much, but y...

Here, look at the head

I tried to look but Hermann’s and Greek are so similar... I tried to look an Italian site and it say is that Hermann’s have solid black plastron while Greek have big black speckles, dots and spots. Jeff seems to have a black butterfly on his plastron and some small dots. I love his plastron pattern ...

Here’s him while having lunch.
It was a rainy day, so I kept him indoors...

Hi Nina, hi Lin! I will send you the pictures you require for tort 2 and 3 in a bit, now the people that want me to help them are doing something else... but I’m attaching Jeff’s butt, head and plastron pics. The butt’s photo is kinda weird because he’s shedding so if you have problems just asks me ...

Hello! I’m writing to you again to update you about my tortoise, little Jeff and how is he doing. Jeff is good, he is starting to get out of his enclosure and wonder in my garden. Spring is great because I have lots of broadleaf plantain and wild dandelions growing in my garden and I stared to gro d...

Thanks for the advice. Yes, I heard that you need to chop the old food with the new food and spray than so they’ll stick together. Maybe I have already read this article. I didn’t remember the cucumber trick but I’ll try that (even though I personally hate cucumbers with all my heart so I’ll just bu...

Thanks Nina for the info. As I live next to a cornfield in a city near Milan, we have freezng winters and very hot summers. The temperatures outside now are -1° at night and 5-10°... so basically every wild plant my Jeff (I just assumed he's a male but I don't know) would eat is kinda dead. That's w...

Hello again. I own a Hermann's that ate nothing but tortoise pet food and now he has a... i don't know what to call this exept for inverse pyramiding? I mean, the growth rings are slightly taller that the centre of the scute. I put the tort back on a diet made of rocket salad and lattuce (that are t...

The bulb is halfway down. I believe this vov is 40 cm high so about 20 cm from ground. Another question: is it normal that it slept sooooo much in this week? I had to wake it up to put it to soak a bit. It would just sleep like he didn’t need to drink or eat. Then when he was up he would walk around...

Morning update

The 35W lamp is set. I waited until the ground became warm and I measure it.

The hotspot is 27.0°C while the cool zone is 18.0-18.5 °C.
Are those better temperatures for the Tort?

But what if the 35w lamp is too cold? Will it sleep more? I live in the countryside so the outside temperature is very cold now, like 7-9 °C at night and 10-12°C in the morning. My Tort is near a window so the temperature is a bit cooler than it would be if it was in the middle of the house (which i...

The one I had on was the 75 watts, not the 35. Tomorrow morning I’ll try the 35 watts and see if it eats something that is not tortoise pet food.

Here’s some pictures of him/her.

Hi I am from Italy. I already know that the vivarium it’s in is not good for it, because it is a snakes vivarium, but was the only enclosure the reptile pet shop had and they told me it was completely fine for a tortoise -which I discover was just a lie to make me buy that one and not on other from ...

Hi everyone, I have a Herman’s tortoise born in September. It was a pretty good eater but since a couple of weeks now it started behaving really weird. I October I gave it the leaves they suggested me to give it, and it ate them straight away. I use to vary it’s diet a lot, and he would eat anything...

It depends. My brother, if it’s a male, wants to call him Jeff. If it turns out to be female, she will then be called Astra (Latin version of Star). For now we just call it “The Tortoise”. Kinda sad but whatever. This morning I took the sliding doors away. When I will be back home I’ll measure the t...

I can take both sliding doors away from the enclosure. I can understand it will require a bigger and more comfortable place to be. I will build one myself. And for the outdoor cage do not worry: I know there are some nasty crows and mice -I live next to a corn field and we had problems with mice cou...