When your tortoise is a baby or young adult it is easy to provide the proper enclosure right inside your home.
Baby sulcata tortoise.
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A baby sulcata tortoise can have a tortoise lifespan of 100 150 years when properly cared for.
Docile and calm tempered easy to care for.
With proper care a sulcata hatchling will quickly outgrow its original enclosure and will need larger amounts of salad every month.
Baby sulcata tortoises are fairly easy to care for.
Originating from the sub saharan regions of africa.
With proper care and a well maintained diet these can live up to 70 years at a time.
We have baby sulcata tortoises for sale.
Adults can reach up to 36 inches in shell length.
Unlike the african spurred tortoise also known as a sulcata tortoise leopards.
Grows up 24 or 120 lbs.
Large plastic totes work well for baby tortoises along with homemade tortoise tables as seen below.
One of the largest species of tortoise for sale once mature.
As your baby grows.
Sulcata tortoise lifespan 55 110 years.
They hatchlings tend to stay close to the burrow coming out to eat and soak up rays before spending the rest of the day in the burrow.
If you live in a cold wet environment a sulcata is not the right tortoise for you.
Eventually most sulcatas end up being moved to an outdoor enclosure.
Currently feeding on greens and veggies and mazuri.
Requires a warm habitat above 78 degrees.
These tortoises come from the dry grasslands of africa thriving best in those conditions.
These burrows are hot and humid.
Giant south african leopard tortoise are also a beautiful species of large tortoise.
But remember the bigger the better.
The giant leopard tortoise from south african grows to around 24 and is very docile.