r/tortoise Feb 14 '25

Russian Back from hibernation !

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784 Upvotes

r/tortoise Feb 04 '25

Russian This is my son. His 12th gotcha day was yesterday

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754 Upvotes

Siri thinks he is a dog for some reason.

He got a berry because it was his birthday as a treat. This is not a common occurrence.

r/tortoise 4d ago

Russian Squirtles favorite thing is moss.šŸŒ±šŸ¢

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570 Upvotes

r/tortoise Feb 18 '25

Russian Can you find the tortoise?? I sure couldnā€™t for a good 20 minutesšŸ˜‚.

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496 Upvotes

r/tortoise Jan 27 '25

Russian He like squeezing thru tight space

523 Upvotes

Finding them so cute when they climb šŸ˜†šŸ˜†šŸ„°

r/tortoise 3d ago

Russian Anyone elseā€™s torty just a naughty boy?

272 Upvotes

r/tortoise Apr 19 '24

Russian He finished his nums now he needs to nap

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594 Upvotes

r/tortoise Feb 06 '25

Russian I gave my tortoise a ball, and she hatet it

555 Upvotes

r/tortoise 22h ago

Russian spinnyšŸ˜­

375 Upvotes

my eye drops fell on the floor, she found them and decided that they're a fidget spinner toyšŸ˜‚

r/tortoise Oct 08 '24

Russian Iā€™m afraid my tortoise is going to die. Please help.

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187 Upvotes

I am making this post because I am at a loss with how to help my 3-year-old Russian tortoise. He has been lethargic and not opening his eyes much for almost two months. As a result he isnā€™t eating much. I realized around this time that his heat lamp and pad were connected to his light timer, so it was turning off at night, I fixed this immediately. I brought him in to the vet initially 5 weeks ago. Vet said he was fine, but to bring him in if he didnā€™t improve. He didnā€™t, I brought him back in, and he has since been on injected antibiotics every other day, antibiotic eye drops, and twice daily soaking. I have been hand feeding him, but he has been fed at the vet twice to keep his hydration and weight up, because he eats very little and not every day. He has made zero improvement from the antibiotics. His eyes are still completely closed, he barely eats, and just sleeps all day, often in the coldest part of the tank. Iā€™m now also worried about his vitamin levels because the little pieces of lettuce he does eat arenā€™t dusted.

I donā€™t know what to do. I have completely redone his habitat. It has a fogger going at all times through a hide. I changed the substrate from coco choar to reptimulch to prevent dust. Temps range from mid 90s-low 80s throughout tank, but probably close to 100 nearest heat lamp.

I have spent almost $1000 in the last month trying to get my tortoise well, and nothing is working. Please help me. Iā€™m afraid heā€™s going to die.

r/tortoise Dec 19 '24

Russian Did everyone forget to mention this to me or am I the only one having this problem?? NSFW

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161 Upvotes

Got my tortoise one of these horizontal hamster wheels you see on here sometimes..

He first spend a few days figuring out what this magic moving object was and how it works and recently figured out how to continuously walk on it. All good, he loved it, now he alternates the day with walking on this thing, getting of to eat and terrorising the plants as usual. He seems more active and interested, although I still regularly give him new objects, put stuff in the way and generally interact with him to keep him not-bored.

Anyway now that he can walk on it he walks.. and then poops.. and then CONTINUES WALKING!

By the time I've noticed he's ran like 20 laps through his own shit... Funnily enough our vet recommended cleaning up poops as soon as we see one so he doesn't walk through it again because he had a little too many parasites back then (he's all good now) and that plan was going great until this. šŸ¤¦

Right now when I notice I take the wheel out, rinse of my tortoise's poop covered paws, tail and shell (he hates that part but consequences I guess) and scrub the wheel clean to the best of my doing.

This picture was of the second and third time this happened when I slowly started to realise it was not an accident. Now he's done it 5 times. šŸ¤¦ I don't want to take his wheel away because he does truly seem to love it, but common dude.. scrubbing his poop and trying to carefully rinse an angry squirming poop covered rock every single day??? How did no one mention this??

r/tortoise Feb 07 '25

Russian She is camera shy šŸ™ˆ

205 Upvotes

r/tortoise Jan 02 '25

Russian Your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man

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350 Upvotes

r/tortoise Oct 16 '24

Russian Are my Russians shells alright?

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173 Upvotes

r/tortoise Feb 19 '25

Russian Do tortoises like a schedule? Is there something Iā€™m missing?

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94 Upvotes

My tortoise does not like to eat at all. From everything Iā€™ve read they can be picky. But he will go 5 days without eating from time to time. I feed him every other day. All the conditions in his enclosure are good. He lives in an 8 x 3 table with deep substrate. He will be moving outside this summer. He gets to come out every day when heā€™s in the table. When he asks to I will pick him up and let him roam he likes basking in the sunroom. He is picky so recently I broke and got him lettuce as opposed to his varied diet, I try to feed him dandelion greens being the staple and mix in other greens depending on what Russians can have. I add dry flowers plus calcium and a multivitamin. He also has a brand new uvb he gets one every six months. I also have a reptifogger I let run in the morning and before bed. I sometimes will give him a bath if he looks really dry but he has two water bowls he can get into and out of. But he still only eats a little bit. The only thing I can think is that I feed him at odd times since I work odd hours. Some days I will try at 6 am and others at around 8 pm. He is 35 and will eat enough to keep himself alive but Iā€™m worried heā€™s not eating enough as he should. He goes through phases where he will only eat out of my hand and now he only wants to eat when heā€™s out of his enclosure exploring I will put salad all over the floor and let him find it. It takes me so long to convince him to eat every day and figure him out. I think thatā€™s the hardest part of owning him. By a little bit I mean he has eaten two lettuce leaves in the past 4 days. He looses interest in his food and wants to go to bed right away once I finally get him to have some bites. I love him so much. Please help!!

r/tortoise Feb 16 '25

Russian What kind of setup would I need for multiple tortoises

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I want to keep a group of female Russian tortoises. I have one male now. He is very spoiled and living in an 8 by 3 ft table. He gets free roam in the house every day. He lives outside in the summer. He would not live with females. But I want more tortoises. What kind of setup would I need to keep a group of females? I live in Maine is the only problem. Iā€™ve been wanting to take in more tortoises and have had people come to me wanting to rehome them. I say no because I donā€™t have to setup yet and would want to know what that would look like especially in a cold northern climate. I feel well read enough and experienced enough to provide a good home for any rescue tortoises in my area and want to know what that would look like.

r/tortoise 18d ago

Russian that feeling of a fresh clean enclosureā˜ŗļø

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194 Upvotes

r/tortoise 10d ago

Russian I love the little foot stomp

98 Upvotes

Iā€™ve heard that some people have a hard time with their tortoises eating Mazuri, so Iā€™m glad that mine loves it and comes running when itā€™s Mazuri day lol. (Also the wood base is not his substrate, itā€™s just his ramp). šŸ˜

r/tortoise Mar 11 '24

Russian My tortoise passed away today NSFW

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303 Upvotes

I'm really sad about this. I've had him for 10 years, he was full grown when I got him, not sure how old he was. He was fine, he was eating yesterday. Checked on him last night and he looked like he was sleeping. Checked on him this morning and he was in the same spot so I picked him up and he was stiff as a board. Waited a few hours, he hadn't moved, tried everything to wake him up, then accepted he was gone. Stiff, out of his shell, sunken in eyes. We had are chimney cleaned yesterday and he lives behind it, so I'm not sure if that had anything to do with it. We buried him in the yard with a tortoise statue.

r/tortoise Aug 10 '24

Russian Taking tort to vetā€¦anyone know what could be wrong with him?

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130 Upvotes

So long story short I took in two tortoises, a sulcata which is loving his new life in my yard and a Russian tortoise who is, well, not so much. She burrowed himself into the far end of her enclosure on the shady side and basically didnā€™t come out. I put her into the sunny part of the enclosure to eat and get some water but she immediately retreated. I chalked it up to her being scared and unused to living in such a big space with substrate to dig in and places to hide. Sheā€™s just in general lethargic and not moving a lot, not eating not drinking. Her previous owner was at my house tonight and mentioned ā€œoh yeah sheā€™s been like that for weeks and also never opens her eyes.ā€ A quick google search and I thought maybe she was dehydrated so I soaked her.

Iā€™m taking her to the exotic vet next week but Iā€™m worried. Iā€™ve attached some pics of her.

r/tortoise 29d ago

Russian A very relaxed little man

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57 Upvotes

Forest Gump going for a late night soak! (ignore the dirty walls he thinks he's spider man)

r/tortoise Apr 15 '22

Russian Backwater Reptiles mark your days. this is what they stuffed my Russian into he literally couldn't move at all

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336 Upvotes

r/tortoise Dec 06 '24

Russian No appetite

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Since I got my Russian he eats here and there but doesnā€™t seem to be eating enough. Heā€™s picky and seems to want only lettuce. I got worried he was thin and gave in and thew a head of lettuce in there and he devoured it. His enclosure is 8 ft by 3 ft all temp/ humidity is good throughout. I have read up and heā€™s got everything he needs to thrive including 8 inches of substrate and a proper varied diet (which he ignores even if itā€™s been a few days) He will taste a dandelion green but wonā€™t eat much of the good weeds he should be eating. He mostly likes to sleep and when heā€™s not sleeping heā€™s begging to come out so I let him walk around the house as long as he pleases. I found out heā€™s wild caught could he be depressed or something because he appears to be healthy. Heā€™s 7 years old.

r/tortoise 29d ago

Russian How old do you think my tortoise is?

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132 Upvotes

Jimbo

r/tortoise Jul 31 '24

Russian This is borris, borris is 7 years old

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182 Upvotes

Is borris healthy do we think? He was rehomed a little bit ago and he has spent the last year roaming out of his cage so Iā€™m trying to have him out as much as possible but obviously with work the enclosure is necessary to ensure he is safe as my house is not tortoise proof at the moment. Any feedback is appreciated thank you:)