Tortoise Forum(s)?

[Klyde O'Scope]

Missus is wanting a good Tortoise Forum.
Best I've found is https://www.tortoiseforum.org/ (Big Surprise? )

Any suggestions/thoughts?

THX

 

[kinyonga]

What kind of tortoises do you have?

 

[Klyde O'Scope]

None yet. Doing the research now.

I think she's leaning toward Russian—she wants the smallest she can get without breaking the bank.

 

[kinyonga]

Hermann’s are a nice small one too.

 

[Klyde O'Scope]

Hermann’s are a nice small one too.

On the list. I guess there are at least a couple locales—Eastern & Western?
She'll make the right choice for her; she researches stuff more than I do.

 

[kinyonga]

Glad your wife researches! I had quite a few turtles/tortoises. One of my criteria was could I pick them up with one hand...so girth.

I don't know much about hermani's except that my Italian friend had a western one living in her yard as a child. It used to open the gate and go into her yard because they fed it. She said it was small.

This might help...
https://www.hermannihaven.com/comparing-hermann-s-tortoise-subspe

 

[Klyde O'Scope]

Thanks, she reads a lot of Garden State's stuff. She's looking for small but affordable because it'll have to live indoors, and we're running out of space.

 

[Highway61]

I love tortoises! Growing up in a San Gabriel suburb, an Uncle gave me an adult male desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii) when I was a small kid and he was very content in our backyard. The perimieter was mostly chain link with years of Ivy growth enshrouding it so that did a good job keeping him penned in the yard. He'd burmate in the winter.

He was very active around us, learning early on to associate his humans with food as we'd hand feed him fresh greens. By far the most interactive reptile I've ever known and with more personality than the family cat! If I still lived in that arid climate, I would definitely recreate that scenario, so many fond memories of that tortoise.