How to care for a tortoise?
Hi there, I’m not sure what a leopard Russian tortoise is?? I’ve kept and bred Russians (T.horsfieldii) and as far as I’m concerned, a leopard tortoise is a Geochelone pardalis – i.e. totally different species! If you’re getting a russian, you’ve posted a few too many questions for me to answer right now (need to get my kids to bed!) but please have a read of this previous answer of mine as it’ll all be relevant: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;… Hope this helps? Edit: PLEASE do not base your care on the reptipro caresheet – it’s full of utter rubbish – especially the temperature recs (85-95C…never heard of a temperature gradient? That’s purely the “hot-spot” temperature – keeping a tortoise between those temps will result in severe, rapid dehydration) and the substrate section is a perfect recipe for intestinal impaction… So what if they state that they,
