ScottishFish's Hermanns Tortoise Journal

[MLBfan]

Will this guy hibernate when winter comes back around?

[ScottishFish]

Yeah he will, he will slowly stop eating and generaly become slow (whats slower than a tortoise :P) and then i need to pack him up nicely in a box with some newspaper. Will hibernate till spring time, got a lot of reading up to do before the winter comes around.

[MLBfan]

Yeah, I guess you won't have to think about that for a while.

Does Wizzle have any favorite foods so far. Spinach, lettuce? Is that what he mainly eats or does he have pellets?

[Demjor19]

Hmmm...I was unaware that Hermann's hibernated. All of my Torts are desert and tropical, so no hibernation here.

[ScottishFish]

He eats red cabbage, spinach, beansprouts (having them tonite) rocket, lambs lettuce. He isn't a fussy eater thankfully.

I was told in the store that you can choose whether or not to hibernate but it is better for them to do so. Hermanns are a mediteranean species, what do you thenk then demjor?

[Rue]

Hm. That would be a problem for me...I'd need one I didn' t have to hibernate. I'd be too stressed if I had to (that something would go wrong).

Edit*** Hmmm...I just read they can be hibernated in the fridge...as long as you open it enough for airflow.

I suppose you could get a bar-sized fridge...if they have to hibernate 4-5 months at a time...

[ScottishFish]

Aw no rue!! No fridge! I've been told by many people that's the new 'craze' so to speak. They hibernate between 5-8c, your fridge is 0-2c. Lots of people are killing their tortoises this way :(

[homemadepopcorn]

I know nothing about tortoises but refrigerating them just seems intuitively wrong...

Any expert info?

[TheVoldevader]

Awwh, Wizzle is adorable! Is there anyway to sex him/her?

[ScottishFish]

He/she is far too tiny to tell yet, I'm unsure how u do it actualy, will need to read up, but will be a few years until I can.