Paper will also work and is easy to clean.
Baby yellow foot tortoise care.
There is no parental care of the young and the baby tortoises will fend for themselves starting by eating calcium rich plant matter.
You can feed your pet a mix of greens vegetables and fruits as well as flowers each day or every other day.
The yellow foot tortoise is not always as personable as the red foot tortoises but they can become quite friendly.
Like the red footed tortoise the yellow footed tortoise can live for well over 50 years with proper care.
Feeding your yellow foot tortoise daily is recommended.
Care requirements the yellow footed tortoise is mostly herbivorous so your pet s diet should primarily consist of fruits and leafy greens like endive clover and dandelion as a few examples.
Soaking your baby yellow footed tortoise daily.
Baby yellow foot tortoise diet yellow foot tortoises eat a wide variety of greens protein veggies and fruits.
The enclosures humidity can be maintained by spraying down your substrate four times a day or by using a reptile fogging system.
Before purchasing your new baby yellow foot tortoise for sale consider setting up the proper yellow footed tortoise habitat purchasing the proper yellow foot tortoise food and provided the correct living quarters for your new pet tortoise for sale.
Mating occurs all year round for the yellow footed tortoise.
Mating occurs all year round for the yellow footed tortoise.
Until they reach 18 months old a baby yellow footed tortoise enclosure should have a humidity of 65.
Amanda ebenhack has kept yellow foot tortoises for more than 12 years and is a permitted wildlife rehabilitator in florida.
Use cypress bark orchid bark or sphagnum moss as a substrate which also helps retain humidity.
There is no parental care of the young and the baby tortoises will fend for themselves starting by eating calcium rich vegetables.
Yellow foots eat more protein than most species of tortoise for sale.