SLOW...YOU GOTTA BE JOKING!! (Tortoise)

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Product:	Tortoise
Date:	03/05/04 (1711 review reads)
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Advantages: Great pets, Not too much things needed, great entertainment

Disadvantages: need feeding reguarly, they die after you!

Me and my family love reptiles!! I know a lot of information about them aswell! In total in my family we have all these pets: 1 heramans tortoise, 3 bearded dragons, 1 iguana, 1 water dragon, 1 blue tounged skink, and our dog (who we all look after). Of these pets i own the hermans tortoise and the blue tounged skink.

I chose my tortoise (Frank) because he had a very nice pattern on his sheel, compared to all the other tortoises at the shop. He is a Hermans tortoise and would live in the desert. He is about 4 years old now and i have had him for over 3 years. Whoever thinks tortoises are slow, think again. Well mabye its just my toroise but they are extremely fast, when you think that they are carrying there house on their back!

Facts
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Tortoises live for a long time because they use hardly any energy, unlike us human beings. The average life span for a Hermans tortoise is about 140 years old! My tortoise has a small tank at the moment but they can grow to the size of asize 4 football (obviously not round!!). My tortoise lives in a 2 by 4 foot veveriam. Tortoises grow very slowly so there is no need to buy them a new tank every few months!

What you would need if to buy one
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If you were to buy a tortoise you would need certain things. You would need a tank (2 by 4 foot would be fine), a heat lamp because they are desert animals and need to be warm, a UBV light to give them light when in their tank and to help them to digest their food properly, some kind of shelter e.g a small plastic tree or bit of wood, food and water, and any other decorative items you might want to put in.

How should it be treated?
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A average tortoise should always come out at least once a day to get some exercise. You may think that they do not need that much exercise but like all animals they need to come out instead of being in a hot stuffy tank all day! A tortoise sho
uld be fed every day so you would need to have the time to do this. The food rots and this attracts fly's which can increase popularity if the food keeps on rotting! I have experienced this and it is not nice having tens of fly's in your tank. The fly's lay there eggs on the rotting food, this is how they increase!

FOOD
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My tortoise is no really too fussy about what it eats, but it may no be the same as any other tortoise! They are vegetarians and can eat the following things:

FRESH CLOVER
KALE
COLLARD AND MUSTARD GREENS
CLOVER
DANDELION
ONLY ROMAINE LETTUCE (ANY OTHER LETTUCE IS POISONESS TO THEM)
MULBERRY LEAVES
GRASS CLIPPINGS
SELECTED WEEDS
FLOWERS (HIBISCUS, NASTURTIUM)
GRATED/CHOPPED CARROTS
GREEN BEANS
BROCCOLI (CHOPPED IF NECESSARY)
RAW CORN, CUT OF THE COB
TOMATOES
FIGS
APRICOTS
ORANGES
LEMONS
TANGERINES
PAPAYA
PINEAPPLE
STRAWBERRIES (SMALL AMOUNTS ONLY)
MELONS

i would reccomend a tortoise to anyone to have as a pet, they are small cute and great pets and do not need so much to be looked after.

THANKS FOR READING MY REVIEW!!

DAN :-) (weinberg2004@hotmail.com)

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