Western Hermann’s Tortoise for Sale

Interested in purchasing a western hermann’s tortoise for sale online? At CB Reptile we have one of the largest selections of captive bred reptiles in the USA.

The most popular of all the western hermann’s tortoise for sale, the Tuscany western hermann’s tortoise is a beautifully colored, friendly and extremely hardy tortoise.  They are one of the easiest tortoises for sale to care for, and also probably the smallest tortoise for sale that we offer.

HABITAT:

In areas with hot summers; moist or dry regions, on cultivated land, hillsides or woodland. It prefers dense vegetation; some like wading.

SUBSPECIES:

Two subspecies are recognised:

1. The Western Hermann’s Tortoise (Testudo hermanni hermanni including T.h. robertmertensi)

RANGE: Islas Baleares (Spain), South of France to western Italy.

2. The Eastern Hermann’s Tortoise (Testudo hermanni boettgeri)

RANGE:

Western Turkey, Bulgaria and Romania to the former Jugoslavia, Greece, Albania and southern Italy.

FEATURES:

The animal has a horny pin on the end of the tail,small and clawlike in the case of the female, long and straight in the case of the male. The scaling on the fore limbs is fairly fine. The carapace length is up to about 20cm. The colour is from yellow varying to orange and brown with dark pigment. The supracaudal may be divided. Eggs hatch in 62-66 days.

FEEDING

Tortoises need a diet which is high in fibre, vitamins and minerals, but low in fat and proteins, and they feed mainly on green leaves. If your tortoise has the run of a garden it will forage quite successfully for itself on charlock, chickweed, clover, dandelion, groundsel, plantains, sow thistle and vetches, often complete with flowers, and the leaves of plants and bushes like buddleia, ice plant, lilac, rose and bramble. Make sure you have a tortoise friendly garden containing no poisonous plants.

At times of year when suitable weeds are hard to find a wide variety of greens and salad must be offered. The diet should be guided by the situation in the wild. Fruit is sometimes eaten but it should only form a minor part of the diet. Vegetables should be fed raw and in moderation. Avoid excess of one food type, such as brassicas, because it should only be fed as part of a varied diet. If a tortoise is not eating, advice should be sought within a week.

Foods should be dusted with an appropriate vitamin and mineral supplement two or three times a week. The quality of supplements varies and advice from a reliable source should be sought. Calcium carbonate can be scattered on the ground daily to provide additional calcium especially for egg laying females because they have a far higher calcium requirement.

Tortoise for sale online from CB Reptile

At CBReptile.com, we specialize in all types of tortoise for sale, baby turtles for sale, adult tortoises for sale online as well as baby tortoises for sale.  We breed here on site and work with captive bred tortoises for sale online.  If you are looking for a tortoise for sale online, you have come to the right tortoise breeder.

Our tortoise farm is the best of any of the tortoise farms in the country as we work with over 25 species of captive bred reptiles for sale including turtles for sale online as well.  Our sister site, tortoise town also offers tortoise for sale and tortoises for sale online, including sulcata tortoise for sale, leopard tortoise for sale, russian tortoise for sale and other captive-bred species of box turtles for sale and turtles for sale online.

Baby tortoises for sale

Some other species of pet tortoise for sale include the Sulcata tortoise, the Russian tortoise, Egyptian tortoise, Hermann’s tortoise.  Other species of large tortoise for sale or giant tortoise for sale include Aldabra tortoise, Sulcata tortoises, Leopard tortoise, giant leopard tortoise.

Some medium-sized tortoises for sale include red foot tortoise, yellow foot tortoise, cherry head tortoise, Burmese star tortoise, and Sri Lankan Star tortoise.  Other small tortoise includes the Indian star tortoise, western Hermann’s tortoise, and greek tortoise to name a few.

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