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Cherry Head Red Foot Tortoise for Sale
$349.00
Species: Chelonoidis carbonaria
Sex: Unsexed
Length: 3-4 inches
Diet: vegetation, fruit, prepared diet
Image: Representative Image
SKU: A5104
Categories: Exotic Pets, Tortoises
Cherry Head Red Foot Tortoise for sale
Each cherry head red foot tortoise for sale is a healthy, young specimen. Our baby pet tortoises are housed under optimal conditions at our facility.
The cherry head red foot tortoise is a darker version of the popular South American red footed tortoise. It is distinguished by it’s bright red head and red legs. They grow to 14 – 18 inches in length and eat a varied diet of vegetation, fruit and small amounts of animal protein.
CHERRY HEAD RED FOOT TORTOISE DIET
Cherry head tortoises are herbivores. They enjoy eating dark leafy greens. Some examples include mustard greens, collard greens, kale, red leaf lettuce and carrot tops. Like many other tortoises, they require more nutrition than just lettuce. They can eat their daily vitamins through pellets such as Mazuri. Their food should be dusted with calcium about every other day.
CHERRY HEAD RED FOOTED TORTOISE LIFESPAN
Cherry head Red footed tortoises live to be about 50 years old! For this reason, consider the length of the time you will spend with your new shelled friend.
CHERRY HEAD TORTOISE TEMPERATURE
The temperature should be considered when purchasing, building or setting up a habitat for your new cherry head red footed tortoise. Temperature is very important in ant type of tortoise habitat. Tortoises are cold-blooded so they need help thermoregulating.
CHERRY HEAD RED FOOT TORTOISE THERMAL GRADIENT IN HABITAT
Cool and hot zones in your red foot tortoise habitat can balance their internal body temperature. A basking lamp can be used on one end. We recommend a 100-500 watt mercury-vapor lamp and keeping a hot spot at about 95 degrees.
Although providing a hotspot is the main focus, lighting also has the potential to produce heat. A heat lamp or heat emitter runs at the same time as the lights. UV lights are necessary for UVB and UVA. We recommend T5 high output fixtures.
CHERRY HEAD RED FOOT TORTOISE HUMIDITY
Cherry head Red foot tortoises need the proper humidity. Reptile foggers can help accomplish this. To make it easier, you can plug it in at the same time as your lighting system. The fogger should be run every morning to give them a humid phase but to also allow for a dry phase at night.
Until they reach 18 months old, a baby red foot tortoise enclosure should have a humidity of 65%. The enclosures humidity can be maintained by spraying down your substrate four times a day or by using a reptile fogging system.
CHERRY HEAD RED FOOTED TORTOISE HABITAT SIZE
The habitat must grow with the tortoise. Water dishes and food trays can be made more easily accessible by cutting holes at the bottom so they sink lower.
The water dish in a red foot tortoise habitat should be large enough for the tortoise to have a proper soak. Make sure the water is not deep enough for the tortoise to drown though.
Cherry head tortoises should have at least an 8×8 ft habitat. As for housing adults, an outdoor enclosure or heated shed is always the better option is weather allows it.
CHERRY HEAD RED FOOT TORTOISE SUBSTRATE
An important part of any tortoise habitat is the substrate. Substrate allows for digging and in turn thermoregulation. The right substrate also allows for proper humidity percentages. At TurtleStore.com, we recommend using a mixture of potting mix, play sand, and cypress mulch. Proper humidity levels can be kept by spraying down the substrate with water daily.
Coco core, soil and reptile bark type substrates are alternatives that work just as well. Just be sure that whatever you purchase is safe for reptiles meaning it is not treated with anything including fertilizers and other chemical contaminants.
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