Turtles need food, water, shelter, heat and proper lighting. You can take them out of the warmth for a while to play or something but for the most part they need to be in heat. To do this you should keep a special heat lamp made just for reptiles on top of it's cage.
Turtles need UVA and UVB light in order to properly digest their food and stay healthy.
snapping brown tailed tortoise
Infact, All tortoise types to not need another tortoise for company. You can though. But dont be suprised if they get into a fight :)
SoCal Connected - 2008 Desert Tortoise 50 Things was released on: USA: 20 January 2012
Tortoise was full of cunning. He was observant, and had a sweet tongue, able to convince the birds that he had changed even though he had not. Tortoise was also a great orator.
Insects are Arthropods, but not all Arthropods are insects.
Boiling it in water is the key to softening it.
The Galapagos tortoise
A leopard tortoise. :)
yes tortoises need exersise like us!
No. They are herbivores, so they only eat things like plants.
I think you should buy a tortoise because they are much easier to care for since they dont need to have instant access to a lot of water.
...Tortoise.