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Texas Tortoise
Care Sheet |
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| Description: |
The Texas Tortoise is excellent at
digging its own burrows. |
| Scientific
Name: |
Gopherus berlandieri |
| Average Size: |
8 to 10 inches |
| Origin: |
Southern United States |
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Feeding |
In the wild these tortoises eat a wide variety of
plant life. They enjoy cacti, grasses, dandelions and
other assorted weeds. It is better for their health
if you pick these items from outside yourself by hand
as opposed to feeding them vegetables which you have
bought from the supermarket.
Before feeding these materials to your Texas Tortoise
dust the food with a good calcium supplement. |
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Habitat |
| Humidity: |
The Texas Tortoise lives in dry and hot areas
so they do not require a lot of humidity and in
fact they cannot tolerate a high level of humidity. |
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| Lighting: |
When housed outdoors lighting is not a concern
as long as they are not in the shade all day. When
housed indoors you will need to provide them with
an artificial UVB light source. |
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| Physical Design: |
Since these tortoises are used to living in hot,
dry areas it is best that you house them outdoors
where the conditions are the same. |
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| Substrate: |
Sand or soil makes a good substrate as this is
what they are used to in the wild. |
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| Temperature: |
Their basking area should be almost 95 degrees
F with the remainder of the enclosure around 85
degrees F. |
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