r/Tortoises • u/grainmatterphotos • 7d ago
Getting back into the hobby and some husbandry questions.
/r/tortoise/comments/1w3ha57/getting_back_into_the_hobby_and_some_husbandry/
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u/Chloe_Sunrise_27 7d ago
Welcome back, just brace yourself: everything you knew about UVB and substrate is probably outdated now
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u/grainmatterphotos 7d ago
LOL, I figured. :)
The horsfieldi I kept spent his entire time in my care outdoors. :
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u/Academic_Judge_3114 7d ago
Hello, on the tortoise sub, you will mainly have American answers, that is to say people who follow the tortoiseforum and who think that baby tortoises should grow up under lamps.
Tbh, I live in France and we raise the hermans and the graecas outside from birth... For having raised more than a hundred, I can tell you that it works as well as the lamps and that you will have zero deformation with this method. Simply, you will need a square vegetable garden topped with a net (directly placed on dirt), you have the perfect climate...
If you need more information on the natural way to raise baby tortoises, do not hesitate to ask...
The ibera and the herman are hyper hardy, they are the ideal species...
Always adopt a hibernating/brumating species in spring,