r/tortoise

Can anyone help identify what kind of tortoise this is?

Hello! My family and I just adopted a Russian tortoise (Boris) from a neighbor who is leaving for college and couldn’t keep him anymore. This is our first reptile, so we’ve been doing a lot of research to try to make his life awesome with us. We will be updating his enclosure and giving him an outdoor enclosure for the summer soon. He also has an exotics Vet wellness check scheduled for tomorrow so I can make sure he’s healthy, and get any husbandry advice from them that I can.

He has burrowed himself in the substrate (which I will also be changing when I get his larger enclosure since I’ve read about better substrate options) for the last almost 24 hours. He hasn’t eaten anything either since we took him from the neighbor on Tuesday. Is this normal as he adjusts to a new home? Just want to hear some advice on adjustment periods.

(This picture is of his enclosure that he’s had with my neighbor the past five years. I’ll be changing a lot of it but wanted to talk with the vet first so that I’m sure I’m getting all the right stuff for him.)

there is a tortoise that I have been looking for and have been informed someone here possibly took her. there is a police report and I want her back!

Rescue Russian tortoise we’ve had for 2 years now vet estimated age around 35-40, female with some shell damage from being outside prior to rescue. Our toddler aptly named her torty

It’s finally warm enough in the NE US to take pancake out for excursions! He spend the better part of two hours in the warm sun and even a little spring rain shower.

I brought him back inside twice— once because the sprinkles urned to downpour and the second time because I needed to go do other things. Both times he flailed his limbs and looked extra grumpy and peed on me. I now know what you all are talking about when you talk about a tortoise temper tantrum. 🤣🤣🤣

Placed in a bush in the direction he was headed!

The water may look muddy cause I only just put new dirt in and he decided to wash his feet in it (Russian tortoise)

Collard greens, kale, hearts of romaine, one cucumber, and timothy hay pellets. I throw it around his yard to encourage more foraging behavior.

I don’t know where exactly to post this, I figured tortoise lovers might care. Land development sign placed over an active gopher tortoises into burrow in South Florida. Called the company and was told “there are people illegally moving gopher tortoises into the area to prevent us from developing”.

tired chonky man

SEEKING ADVICE: i had the surprise of finding a very sweet male tortoise on my door step around sunset today. i checked with some neighbors before it got too dark and nobody was missing him, i plan to check with others tomorrow. i posted on local lost and found pet groups but haven’t heard anything yet. the weird thing is that i live on 5 acres of very bushy weed terrain with a decently long driveway. i do think it’s possible he crawled all the way up my driveway but it absolutely must’ve taken him all day.it’s also probably worth noting that the neighbors around me live on large and similar properties as well, so wherever he came from it was a pretty long adventure, even multiple days. i offered him a mix of romain and other greens of which he seemed desperate to eat, along with some water that he was less interested in. as soon as the sun went down he was trying to put himself to bed so i brought him inside as it’s too cold outside, and he’s sleeping in a large box with a towel partly covering the top in my bathroom. i’m pretty novice in tortoise care but want to make sure there’s nothing more i could do to help him until i find his owner. also, his eyes look like they may be different colors which im guessing could be due to a possible injury of some kind? one looks very dark brown/black with no iris or pupil visible and the other has a yellowish iris and pupil. any info, advice, or tips would be very much appreciated!

Finally got hot enough out for Mr. Sheldon here to get outside! He always gets so excited to stomp through the grass and flowers 😂 the jungle of the backyard!!

hi, i found a baby tortoise in my backyard this afternoon and since none of the neighbors own him and don’t know where he/she came from, i’ve decided to keep him. since i never owned s tortoise or a reptile or anything like that i would reeeally really appreciate any advice🥺 i would love to keep it, i think it is pure fate that brought him/her to me.

it’s very small and i don’t know how old it is. i’ve asked chatgpt a loooot of questions because i really have noone to ask so all help is welcome🥺
p.s. i’m not holding it like that, the picture is just for size reference

EDIT:
i called the vet and they said that it definitely escaped from someone’s backyard or something. yes, it is native, but it’s natural habitat isn’t here in the continental croatia at all, it is most likely somebody’s pet tortoise’s baby that escaped. it was good that i rescued it because the crows would have attacked it. it’s natural habitat is in Dalmatia, at the seaside. it is only a few months old. since this is not their natural habitat and it would actually be dangerous to release her in the wild, they said that i could either give it to the rescue service or keep it so i have decided to keep it. everybody say hi to Leyla!🐢💕🥗🥬✨

also i would love some advice for keeping it, which uvb lamp is the best etc🥺

I have recently taken over care of this hermann tortoise, and I’m concerned about its health, the mark on the top of the shell has been stable for a year, but now that I’m looking after her I would like to understand what may have caused it.

So I recently got this little baby tortoise, and I'm sure it's a greek tortoise but I'm unsure about the subspecies.

The coloring of the shell suggests it's a Testudo Graeca Nabeulensis (Tunisian tortoise) but the location it lived in suggests otherwise, it was found in Northwestern Algeria, which suggests it might be a Testudo Graeca Whitei or much less likely Testudo Graeca Graeca.

Also I've noticed since I've had 2 Greek tortoises before, the males usually have a cloaca that more closely resembles a slit that goes all the way down the tail rather than a star shaped hole at the base of the tail, so this might indicate it's a male but only time will tell.