I must echo Nina’s comments and thanks for caring for Mort and your lovely words about our website.
Mort is a very handsome young man and as his age is only a guess he looks amazing. Well done for taking him on and we are here if you need to ask anything.
Lin
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- 17 Aug 2023, 13:59
- Forum: South American Species
- Topic: Hello and gratitude
- Replies: 2
- Views: 19736
- 16 Aug 2023, 22:54
- Forum: General Tortoise Care
- Topic: Hermann tortoise croak sounds
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2084
Re: Hermann tortoise croak sounds
Hiya, congratulations on becoming a new tortoise owner and what a lovely little one Terry is. I couldn’t really hear the noise Terry was making but do you find he does it mostly when you’re looking at him or you’re nearby, perhaps made a louder than normal noise. The reason I ask this is because a n...
- 14 Aug 2023, 11:49
- Forum: General Tortoise Care
- Topic: Tortoise right eye not opening.
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3291
Re: Tortoise right eye not opening.
Hiya Anandita. I was hoping you were going to say Chloramphenicol, it’s perfect (I use it on my own eyes) and it does come in drops form and I find they are much easier to administer and so much less stressful. A vet will also prescribe it for runny nose issues. I’m just going to look at the photo a...
- 14 Aug 2023, 01:45
- Forum: General Tortoise Care
- Topic: Tortoise right eye not opening.
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3291
Re: Tortoise right eye not opening.
Hi Anandita, Truck is a cutie all wrapped up nice and snug. I don’t know if I am imagining it but is there a little mark where I have circled it on Trucks photo? I would also say keep on with the get but I do think drops would absorb better. What is the gel called? As for the substrate - this was po...
- 13 Aug 2023, 01:16
- Forum: General Tortoise Care
- Topic: Table to outside run
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1605
Re: Table to outside run
It might be interesting for you to know that the uv measuring system from 1 to 10 in England was actually 6 on Thursday. Even though it was dull, overcast and cloudy. Today with the sunshine in the south east it was between 3 and 5. The strength of the sun's ultraviolet (UV) radiation is expressed a...
- 12 Aug 2023, 16:51
- Forum: Enclosures
- Topic: Substrate
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2458
Re: Substrate
Hi Phil, Yes, those that have tortoises indoors in an open top enclosure usually spot clean daily and give it a substrate change and thorough clean once a month or so. A little tip is if you bath a tortoise in nice warm water for around 20 mins it will usually do the deed while in the bath making it...
- 03 Aug 2023, 22:28
- Forum: General Tortoise Care
- Topic: Brand New Owners
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1784
Re: Brand New Owners
Hi Peanut (it would be good if we knew your real name, and please don’t say peanut or I will be so embarrassed. Welcome and congratulations on your new Horsfield and well done for only using one ‘e’. You might get some tips from this caresheet and if you go through the menus at the top of this websi...
- 01 Aug 2023, 20:35
- Forum: Rehoming
- Topic: ‘Fhuair. Male T.g. Ibera. E. yYorkshire
- Replies: 0
- Views: 12935
‘Fhuair. Male T.g. Ibera. E. yYorkshire
We have a male Testudo greaca Ibera (T.g.i) in Driffield, E. Yorkshire, named ’Fhuair (Scottish Gaelic meaning ‘found’; pronounced ‘Hoo-ar’) because he was found wandering in 1975, and placed carefully in a box and left on the doorstep of a local well known ‘Good Samaritan’ who has looked after him ...
- 29 Jul 2023, 16:50
- Forum: Rehoming
- Topic: REHOME. Pebbles & Trouble. Staffordshire Moorlands area of the Peak National Park
- Replies: 0
- Views: 12997
REHOME. Pebbles & Trouble. Staffordshire Moorlands area of the Peak National Park
Pebbles (smallest approx 12 years old) and Trouble (largest, approx 10 years old) are both male Hermann tortoises based at Staffordshire Moorlands area of the Peak National Park. and are being looked after by a kindly neighbour because of the owner’s ill health. This arrangement was only temporary u...
- 27 Jul 2023, 23:46
- Forum: Enclosures
- Topic: Trucks Enclosure so far
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3718
Re: Trucks Enclosure so far
I think you got it right saying about the sun, whenever we get it! It’s being a bit slow this year but I hope we get a bit more than the week or two we had last month. I think Trucks enclosure is looking great and you will have one happy tortoise when he gets to try it out and it might be a good ide...
- 24 Jul 2023, 21:49
- Forum: African Species
- Topic: Hi there, here's my michelangelo, help me sex?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 23477
Re: Hi there, here's my michelangelo, help me sex?
I can’t see it now, so hopefully it is.
Lin
Lin
- 23 Jul 2023, 22:26
- Forum: African Species
- Topic: Hi there, here's my michelangelo, help me sex?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 23477
Re: Hi there, here's my michelangelo, help me sex?
Would you be able to post a photo with the tail in its normal state.
Lin
Lin
- 23 Jul 2023, 21:00
- Forum: African Species
- Topic: Hi there, here's my michelangelo, help me sex?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 23477
Re: Hi there, here's my michelangelo, help me sex?
Hiya. Sorry I don’t know your name. I would say you have a female there but there looks to be something else going on for example a prolapse, trying to pass a calcified egg or even a stone. I would take it to a good reptile vet that is qualified to treat tortoises and get them to have a look at what...
- 21 Jul 2023, 16:47
- Forum: Rehoming
- Topic: REHOMED - Diggle female Horsfield. - West Midlands
- Replies: 0
- Views: 12509
REHOMED - Diggle female Horsfield. - West Midlands
Diggle (so named because she loves to dig) is a 5 year old female Horsfield from Sedgley, near Dudley, West Midlands. Diggle is in need of a loving long term home, her original owner had become unable to care for her and she needs to move on from her temporary home now while it’s still summer and sh...
- 19 Jul 2023, 12:38
- Forum: Rehoming
- Topic: Rehome - Tommy - Horsfield male Lancashire
- Replies: 0
- Views: 12444
Rehome - Tommy - Horsfield male Lancashire
Please be aware that Facebook and The Tortoise Table do not allow any money to change hands during the rehoming process. Just for clarity negative comments about an owner's decision to rehome their tortoise, are not welcome and will be removed. Meet Tommy, an adorable male Horsfield who is coming up...
- 19 Jul 2023, 11:34
- Forum: Diet and Nutrition
- Topic: Which supplement
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5023
Re: Which supplement
Hiya Amanda
I hope you don’t mind me asking you to wait for Nina for a more detailed answer than this but I will leave you with our mineral and supplements article for now as that might help.
https://www.thetortoisetable.org.uk/tor ... pplements/
Lin
I hope you don’t mind me asking you to wait for Nina for a more detailed answer than this but I will leave you with our mineral and supplements article for now as that might help.
https://www.thetortoisetable.org.uk/tor ... pplements/
Lin
- 25 Jun 2023, 13:38
- Forum: General Tortoise Care
- Topic: Tortoise losing weight
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4959
Re: Tortoise losing weight
Hi Sarah. In addition to what Nina has said I was wondering how long this has been going on and agree that the weather could be the factor for this eating inactivity. These past couple of weeks it was been vey hot or very overcast and humid and tortoises will hide up during the day to try and keep a...
- 11 Jun 2023, 23:32
- Forum: General Tortoise Care
- Topic: Do I need to register my tortoise?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 7194
Re: Do I need to register my tortoise?
Hi Kingmoose
I hope you don’t mind but I am going to leave you in the good hands of my colleague Nina, as I think she is more clued up in this than I am.
Lin
I hope you don’t mind but I am going to leave you in the good hands of my colleague Nina, as I think she is more clued up in this than I am.
Lin
- 10 Jun 2023, 22:01
- Forum: Mediterranean Species
- Topic: First time new Hermans Tortoise owner
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7605
Re: First time new Hermans Tortoise owner
Hi Amandita
I love the name truck, it’s quite fitting for a tortoise and he’s sure is a beauty.
Lin
I love the name truck, it’s quite fitting for a tortoise and he’s sure is a beauty.
Lin
- 10 Jun 2023, 11:31
- Forum: Rehoming
- Topic: Good News. - No longer needing a home.
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5025
Re: Beautiful Hermann’s needing a good home
Hi Claire. I’m sorry to hear you’re having to rehome your tortoise and of course your terrible illness. If we put a post on our Facebook page it will receive a lot more views but we need a nice photo of your Tim and the place of collection, not the address just the area. You can send these to me at ...
- 06 Jun 2023, 12:53
- Forum: Rehoming
- Topic: REHOMED - Sheldon. Male Horsfield. Glasgow
- Replies: 0
- Views: 18414
REHOMED - Sheldon. Male Horsfield. Glasgow
.Sheldon is a 5 year old, male Horsfield from Glasgow, who’s owner, after much thought, has decided to make the heartbreaking decision that he needs a new home after a house move, and then finding out that Sheldon is not allowed to have an outside enclosure in the shared garden is breaking their hea...
- 03 Jun 2023, 14:23
- Forum: Rehoming
- Topic: Rehoming Advertising Protocol and Disclaimer
- Replies: 11
- Views: 35795
Re: Rehoming Advertising Protocol and Disclaimer
Hi Loish? Thanks for sending the above info and photos but I do need to have some other info as follows and that can be sent to me at lin@thetortoisetable.org.uk. If you are sure this is what you have to do then I will need some details from you. As you probably know that no money can change hands t...
- 25 May 2023, 00:50
- Forum: Rehoming
- Topic: REHOMED. - Reggie - male Horsfield - Hook Hampshire
- Replies: 0
- Views: 19105
REHOMED. - Reggie - male Horsfield - Hook Hampshire
.Reggie is a lovely 9 year old male Horsfield currently living in Hook, Hampshire that was fostered in 2022 as he was not being cared for properly where he was living. He has been nurtured back to good health and is currently on a great diet of fresh weeds & wild flowers. He is now ready to find...
- 15 May 2023, 23:55
- Forum: Mediterranean Species
- Topic: toirtoise sleeping under the basking lamp all day !
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5370
Re: toirtoise sleeping under the basking lamp all day !
Everything in your enclosure, temp wise, seems perfect and the Arcadia pro t5 is the best so I don’t think anything is wrong with that. I do really think it a punishment to you for not allowing the freedom of the outside. :lol: Once they try it they don’t like coming back inside and will show off. W...
- 15 May 2023, 18:43
- Forum: Mediterranean Species
- Topic: toirtoise sleeping under the basking lamp all day !
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5370
Re: toirtoise sleeping under the basking lamp all day !
Ah, I Think the problem could be a common term we use down south, it’s called ‘throwing the rattle out of the pram’, having a stroppy moment because it’s has had a taste of the outside world where the grass is greener but being so small he will lose the core temperature much faster than a bigger old...