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Sri Lanken Star Tortoises Care Sheet
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Before purchasing your sri lankan star tortoise for sale, from a reputable tortoise breeder, be sure to read this care sheet to insure proper care of your tortoise.
The Indian Star Tortoise (Geochelone elegans) has to be one of the most beautiful tortoises in the world.
Being a tropical species they require all year round heat and must be segregated from other tropical species and particularly the Mediterranean species, as the latter carry pathogens against which the Indian Star has no resistance.
They can be maintained in excellent health (and will likely breed) in indoor accommodation all year round and they eat much the same as the Mediterranean species.
This is why I can recommend my Indian Star youngsters to you and have total confidence that they will thrive in your care – even if you have never kept a tortoise before, so don’t be put off by the conflicting advice you may have found on the internet and elsewhere – they really are well worth the effort and I will make sure you have everything you need for them to lead a happy and healthy life in your home.
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| An Ideal Size For Life Indoors |
| Because of its relatively modest adult size (none of my adult females exceed 3kg in weight and 33cm in length and are likely in the region of 27 years old) the Indian Star is probably the only readily available tropical tortoise suitable for long-term indoor accommodation.
Neither of its cousins – the Leopard Tortoise (Geochelone pardalis with a typical adult size in excess of 45cm in length and over 15kg in weight) and African Spurred or Sulcata Tortoise (Geochelone sulcata, typical adult size 83cm in length and 105kg! in weight) will be small enough to keep indoors as adults and will require their own shed/greenhouse complex not to mention several people to actually lift them!! |
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| My baby Indian Star tortoises hatch after a minimum of 107 days incubation (although I have had the odd one take up to 134 days!) and emerge from the egg with a large yolk sac attached which is absorbed over several days in the incubator.
Once this has been absorbed I swab the remaining ‘scar’ clean with Betadine antiseptic using a cotton bud and transfer them to their terrarium where they soon start feeding. Around 12-16 weeks after hatching they are all feeding enthusiastically, growing in both size and weight and are ready for a new home. Their hatching weight is typically around 17g and they are the size of a ping-pong ball at birth. By sixteen weeks old they have already grown to about 40g, which is the minimum I sell them from, and are noticeably bigger. |
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