Redfoot Tortoise For Sale Description

red footed tortoise for sale

Also, we offer well-started baby red footed tortoise for sale and juvenile red foot tortoises as well as adults.

Baby Red foot tortoise Diet

Redfoot tortoise for sale eat a wide variety of greens, protein, veggies, and fruits.  Feeding your red foot tortoise daily is recommended.  Red foots eat more protein than most species of tortoise for sale.  Both the yellow foot tortoise for sale and the Cherry head tortoise also eat the same diet as the baby or adult red-footed tortoise.

Red foot tortoise for sale – humidity

Humidity is important with all forest species of tortoise.   Red foot tortoises, like the cherry head tortoise for sale, and baby yellow foot tortoise require higher humidity than most species of tortoise.  Humidity levels for red foot tortoises for sale should be in the neighborhood of 65-75% at all times.

baby Red-footed tortoise UVB Lighting

UVB is important when keeping any species of tortoise.  Red foot tortoises, yellow foots, and cherry heads will require less UVB than most tortoise species.  Using a 5 or 6% UVB lamp works well for forest species like the red foot.  Here we recommend Arcadia brand UVB lamps as they are clearly the best in the world.  You can find them in our tortoise lighting section.  Buying the right red foot tortoise UVB lamp is important, so don’t skimp!

Red Foot tortoise for sale Habitat

Habitats can really be made from anything from a fish tank to a tortoise box, to an old table.  Using something that works for your particular application is key from the start.  For example:  If you live in south Florida, you will eventually be keeping your baby red foot outside once he or she is a yearling to juvenile.  Those who live in the northeast and colder areas may keep their tortoise indoors year-round, or most of the year.   The main thing to consider when setting up your red foot tortoise habitat is making sure you can maintain humidity in the area of 75% most of the time.

The red-footed tortoise (Chelonoidis carbonarius) is a species of tortoise from northern South America. These medium-sized tortoises generally average 30 cm (12 in) as adults, but can reach over 40 cm (16 in). They have dark-colored, loaf-shaped carapaces (back shell) with a lighter patch in the middle of each scute (scales on the shell), and dark limbs with brightly colored scales that range from pale yellow to dark red. Recognized differences are seen between red-footed tortoises from different regions. They are closely related to the yellow-footed tortoise (C. denticulatus) from the Amazon Basin.

They are popularly kept as pets, and over-collection has caused them to be vulnerable to extinction.The species name has often been misspelled as carbonaria, an error introduced in the 1980s when Chelonoidis was elevated to genus and mistakenly treated as feminine, an error recognized and fixed in 2017.

Their natural habitat ranges from savannah to forest edges around the Amazon Basin. They are omnivorous with a diet based on a wide assortment of plants, mostly fruit when available, but also including grasses, flowers, fungi, carrion, and invertebrates. They do not brumate, but may aestivate in hot, dry weather.

Eggs, hatchlings, and juvenile tortoises are food for many predators, but the main threats for adults are jaguars and humans. Population density ranges from locally common to very scarce due in part to habitat destruction and over-collection for food and the pet trade.