Hermanns Tortoise Care (Testudo hermanni) 

He looks so healthy! That shell is beautiful.

I'm thinking about getting a tortoise but I'm worried about getting/ maintaining the appropriate temperature. I live in Maine and winter my apartment is only 68-70 degrees. I'm scared it will get to cold. Anyways, I'm impressed with the care and love you give all your animals :) Great job!

I think he looks healthy and his slight pyramiding is 100% normal

This was actually really good advice for me as I was gonna fat a glass tank but now I shall build my own. Also cute tortuous

Finally, no more dandelions in my yard.

He is so adorable! ❤ I love your videos :)

Really interesting Mike, I for one would love to see an in-depth diet video. Book !

Do a whole video on making a tortise tank thingy

I'd love an in depth feeding video! Also can you do more ackies care videos? Book :)

He's very cute! While you were filming he was following you round like "hey man, pick me up!" Lol

If you could JUST upload Sheldon videos....THAT'D BE GREAT

You should put slate around his water bowl so he doesn't track in very much substrate

when they are baby's its fine to keep them in a glass one just put paper or something so they can't see out

Book! Nice video Mike, Congrats on 22k as well! Haha Sheldon's booth dance is the best XD

Great video Mike :) I love tortoises but I just don't have the room for one :(

Would it be easier to keep smaller tortoises like Sheldon in outdoor enclosures or indoors? P.S. I love your videos, you make actually enjoyable care and room tour vids! Keep up the good work!

Great info! I’m in love with Sheldon! BOOK! 🐢

Your Canadian and you use Fahrenheit????

Would a 4ft by 3 ft wood vivarium with glass sliding doors be ok for a tortoise? Because it's my only spate viv right now and I'm looking to get a baby hermann's tortoise soon. In my house I can only use a viv bc I have cats and they will jump into enclosures that don't have a roof lol

What breeder would you recommend for reptiles I'm planning on starting a business, and I don't want harmed reptiles. Anyone?

Hey Mike im a big fan, I was wondering if you had a link to the bulb I have the name down but I dont want to get the wrong one

I like the use of the corrugated plastic.

I want living plants in my Herman’s tortoise enclosure but I’m told that I can’t because they have pesticides on them and they will kill my tortoise, how do I put live plants into my tortoise’s enclosure

Great video, they're awesome little tortoises!

My female hermann has a massive water dish it’s a paint tray and she can easily get in it but Iv never seen her drink only stare at the water however I do bath her every 3 days

You said that they are from desert, i can say that they are not and i say that because i am a Greek and i live in Greece (Greece is not really like a desert) and i have seen their habitats and they also don't have sand (that because you mentioned that nobody should have them in a sand substrate)

ok fruit u can feed red foots and cherry heads and more tropical species u can feed them fruit

I have a Herman's just like this. his name's Marmaduke. He looks nothing like the other 3 eastern Herman's I have. The shell makes him look more like a spur thigh. Is Sheldon a western Herman's? Maybe that explains shell difference?

Just purchased our first baby Hermanns! Would love more food info - what vitamin supplements do you recommend in additions to standard Calcium/low phosphorus/D3? Also BOOTY DANCE

I'm early Anyways I love your animals and your videos Keep it up :)

Where should I get one in Canada ?

Where did you get Shelldon!

my tortoise loves dandylion leaves and flowers :)

Can anyone please answers this question... do I have to bath my tortoise if I have a water dish that I change the water every day?

Isn't he supposed to hibernate in order to stay healthy? (Since Hermans need to hibernate?) Thank you

What are some recommendations for in enclosure plants they like to eat that they don't destroy in a week?

Make a video on what they eat.

They get like 8-11 inches right? Are they a more humid loving species such as a Red Foot, or a desert type species such as the Sulcata?

Is there a food that I can buy

I live in Ontario Canada, and I can't find where they sell a Hermann tortoise. Please help me find one .

Can Herman tortoises eat Oregano?

I dont even have outoor pen or indoor he rooms my back yard with freedom then when his tired he will sleep in the garage on his own

Great informative video! Book :)

What kind of stones are there in your enclosure?

Wondering if Eco Earth would work??

Hey, your from Alberta or Manitoba right? Lol I love finding people who have the same interests as me that live in my country. Except I live in southern Ontario, so it’s a little warmer down here. Lol.

Love ur channel bro

How much did Shelldon cost? I searched it up and was shocked by what I saw (Around $150-250)

What should the humidity be?

You can use Romain lettuce right?

NICE VIDEO

yea I agree am

how old was he in this?

can they drink tap water?

great video. book

book. Nice video! :)

That's my tortoise

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Book

He eats the way I eat (cuttlebone notwithstanding)

Book nice vid, i think it will be helpfull:)

You may want to edit your description XD

Nice Bro

Feeding video!!

You need to remove the slate under their heat bulb, it's basically making a heat mat which I'm sure you know isn't good for tortoise

San Diego so southern

Book... good luck ..

book.

man had the rona in 2016 lol

I can't even count how much wrong info was listed here. smh

Your tortoise is showing signs of calcium deficiency. Lack of or too little calcium in diet. Resulting in a pyramid shape shell

Meal worms

I got my first reptile last year a leopard gecko and I got a bearded dragon a month ago. your videos really inspire me, thank you for making them keep up the amazing work.

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Book

Hermanns Tortoises should never be kept indoors but i do appreciate your affection towards them so i‘m hoping Sheldon can live outdoors sooner or later

Actually; pyramiding is linked to humidity and it being to dry. Although a high protein diet will also cause pyramiding.

Hi Michael, or graphic Phoenix, I am trying to find a tortoise I should buy. I found this website called tortoisesupply.com I found this hatchling hermann's tortoise, and I want to know if this is an ok one. I like Greek or Egyptian tortoises because they stay small. There are Greek tortoises on the website. I want to know if it looks healthy. www.tortoisesupply.com/baby-hermanns-tortoise-eastern-b-grade/

I have a glass tank the lid is always open and he doesn't dig in the corners he always looks happy

Worth noting that the water isn't only for drinking and hygienic purposes - but also to moderate their body temperatures as they are ectothermal animals. So it's actually VERY important they have a water source as well as something they can dig down into to reduce their body temperatures and act as a means of shelter. They also need a fair bit of calcium supplements if your local fauna has a poor calcium to phosphorous ratio - which ideally should be 4:1 - and in some places can be 1:4 which is very bad for the turtle.

Help my mother gives my tortoise a little piece of strawberry or a leaf of iceberg lettuce every day. I Always give him Romaine lettuce and i Always say her that ITS Not healthy and she Always says naaah and also my sister does and i want my tortoise to be healthy and have a Long Life. Greetings from Germany Info:My Hermann tortoise "Larry" is almost 1 year old he only got small pyramiding like sheldon

I named my tortoise sheldon because he reminds me of sheldon from Big Bang theory

Book! Great video mate, I recently got a hermann's tortoise and they're wonderful! Another option for an indoor enclosure is a rubber maid stock tank. They're huge and easy to clean. love that booty dance too xD

beautiful tort!! what locale is your western hermann?

This is kind of a stupid question but would it be bad for the tortoise if you put its cage in front of a window? Would it mess up the temps or would it be ok? Sheldon is so cute!

Please make a feeding video and where to get those special weeds that Sheldon eats.

How long do these live?

Book

We took in my aunts eastern hermann tortoise about a year ago with very short notice and kept her conditions the same as before, besides getting a new wooden table, and listened to my aunts advice but we recently noticed that shes growing and could barely fit through her wooden hidey hole like she used to so i did my research and have found out everything were doing is wrong. Her table is about 1.5ft by 2.5ft and her substrate is a mix of sand and bark, we feed her a handful of lettuce everyday and she just isnt getting the proper care at all. we dont have the space for a huge house and i dont know what to do. would it be best to find her a new home with an experienced reptile owner or can she manage with her small house now? shes 5 and i am worried that she will outgrow it. the best we really do for her is give her a cuttle bone and dandelion leaves in the summer, we dont even clean out her water that regularly. i hate that i didnt do my own proper research sooner and feel really sorry for her. we can easly change her substrate but im really concerned about how much space she has. i feel awful about it and just want the best for her.

this seems western hermann's as more contrasty shells. mine looks exactly like yours

THAT BOOTY DANCE WAS AWESOME! IT WAS SO CUTE!!!

1:10 about the glass I like having my tortoise in a enclosure with glass because we can see if he’s ill and what he’s doing at all times (he’s in our living room)

My Hermann is 5 years old, never once has he drank from his water bowl! He has a bath every day or every other day though so maybe that's why..

4 years later, but still I like this kind of videos. Just one comment: stay clear of words such as "never" or "must", I have noticed with time that they are very subjective. I know people here in Germany who would literally killl you if you dare not induce them to hibernate. Stil in nature there have been tortoises found not hibernating (for whatever reason), and in Israel there is a whole community of Tostudo Graeca Terrestris who do not hibernate. Hibenation is not sleeping, it's nature's solution for animals to survive the harsh winters (cold, food shortage, etc.), there have been studies about animals getting used to not hibenating when conditions are spring-like at worst (and they don't lose their procreation cabailities). Many newborns in nature also die during the first hibernation (or second or third), this is why some experts recommend not necesserily to put them to "Winterstarre". But if you even nention that in Germany, better don't show your face in public for a long time. As for a water bowl - all depends on the experience and on the individual animal. If you feed them with wet leaves (emphasis on WET), there is no real need for a water bowl, unless the indivitual tortoise you are raising got used to having one. I do have a water bowl, and my tortoise NEVER touches it. In nature they also don't have it, most specimens will never find water sources rather than in plants. As for the ground, Testudo Hermanni lives in accross lots of types of habitats, unless you know the exact sub-species and even community of the specimen you have at home, there is no point to recommend on type of soil to be used. And anyhow they will get used to whatever you give them. My tortoise I have right now which I understand is a T.H.H from the wastern coast of Spain, is a very avid digger, he needs the type of soil where he can dig and dig his way out on the other side. So the type of soil I provide hhim cannot be what you have. That doesn't mean that yours is a big NO-NO, which is the same for sand, given that many T.H.H in Sardinia and T.H.B live in sandy habitats. So it all depends on many factors. One thing I do agree, though, food should be green, green and diverse (and non-poisonous of course). In the case of Tortuga Graeca, which nornally receives pretty much the same recommendations, there are communities of some subspecies (T.G.T) which feed in nature on friuts relatively more than others, but for T.H only greens are recommended. Good video, though, strong like.

book and booty dance. lol

Should we strain the top soil to make it finer and easier to burrow and digest.

Great video! I will be breeding Hermann’s Tortoises soon and can’t wait to get them!

Hibernation isn't a thing for breeders. It prevent your tortoise to grow to big to fast. 🙄

Can we see you do some art of your animals?

Actually make that two tortoises. I think you're going to answer WAY TO SMALL..........