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Marginated Tortoise Overview
Marginated tortoises require a wooden vivarium as their enclosure. This is because wood is an excellent insulator of heat and so a wooden vivarium will make it easier to control the crucial temperatures required inside the habitat. The wooden vivarium should have good ventilation to allow good airflow.
The vivarium should be at least 34″ in length for a juvenile and 46″ for an adult. The enclosure needs to be hot at one end, but have enough distance for the temperature to drop at the cool end.
Tortoise table: tables may be used for Marginated tortoises for sale, but as they insulate no heat, they are only recommended for use in houses that are naturally warm. The table should be at least 35″ long.
MARGINATED TORTOISE BREEDING
If you keep a male and female Marginated tortoise together, they may breed. You do not need to do anything to encourage this, providing they are healthy and the conditions are good, it will usually happen naturally. You need to consider whether you want this to happen. What will you do with the babies if you incubate the eggs?
A gravid female should have access to a nesting box to lay her eggs. The box should be large enough that she can fully turn-around inside it. We use a soil mix in there that is wet enough to clump but no more.
The eggs should be incubated in an incubator at 84oF. After approximately 60 days the eggs will start to hatch, the first babies to emerge will encourage the rest of the eggs to hatch.
DIET
Marginated tortoise diet consists of vegetation. Good foods include dandelion, clover, honeysuckle, leafy salads, watercress, curly kale, Brussel tops, spring greens, coriander, parsley, rocket, carrot, parsnip, courgette and bell peppers. The bulk of the vegetation should be leafy greens.
The diet should also include fibrous plants like grasses and weeds. Good weeds include plantains, white nettle, corn poppy, chickweed, bindweeds, and hawkbit. For times when fresh food is not available, or for variety, there are pre-made tortoise dried foods available that most tortoises relish.
MARGINATED TORTOISE SUPPLEMENTS
To provide tortoises with optimal nutrition and to keep them in the best of health, Marginated tortoises will require diet supplementation in the form of calcium, vitamins, and minerals. These are most commonly available as powders. Calcium should be provided daily and dusted directly onto the tortoise’s food. Vitamins may be added daily for young tortoises, but adults will only require them every other day.
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