ค่าหลัก
Temperature
The cool side, 27–32°C, dropping to 21–23°C at night. This sheet states the cool side only. It gives no warm side or basking figure, so the hot end is not in our data. Same scale on every sheet here, so two species compare by eye.
The sheet statescool 27-32 °C / night 21-23 °C
Humidity
The sheet statesJuveniles: always >80%, higher at night. Adults are more resilient to drying out and are kept in a dry, well ventilated enclosure, with a humid hide always available (the burrow they dig in the wild)
UVB
The sheet statesArcadia T5 HO Desert 12% or Zoo Med T5 HO ReptiSun 10.0 at 9-12″ /23-31cm (mesh), 14-16″ / 36-41cm (no mesh); Arcadia T5 HO Dragon 14% at 10-13″ / 25-33cm (mesh), 15-20″ / 38-51cm (no mesh); achieve a UVI of between 4.0 – 6.0 in the basking area
ข้อมูลชนิด EN
ตู้เลี้ยงและสภาพแวดล้อม
What your climate adds
This sheet states a range to hold. Your local climate decides how much work holding it is. Pick the nearest city: nothing is sent anywhere, the choice stays in this browser.
อาหาร
Feeding rhythm
Twenty-eight days, one row. Each band is a meal window.
Why
The windows widen as they go because the interval is a range: four meals after a 10–14 day cycle land anywhere between day 40 and day 56.
The sheet statesSulcata tortoises are herbivores, which means that they eat plants. Young and growing sulcata tortoises should be given as much as they can eat every day. Once they near adulthood, this should be reduced to a limited quantity (roughly the same size as their shell) daily to prevent obesity
พฤติกรรมและการจับ
การสืบพันธุ์
เมื่อไรควรพบสัตวแพทย์
เกร็ดน่ารู้ EN
- Third-largest tortoise on Earth and the largest mainland species.
คำถามที่พบบ่อย EN
How big does it really get?
Very big: 60 to 80 cm and often 40 to 80 kg. Most people underestimate this and end up having to rehome it.
Can it live in an apartment?
Honestly, no. An adult needs a garden it can graze and dig in, with a solid shelter.
Does it dig?
Constantly, and it will tunnel under fences and walls. Sink your barrier deep or you will be chasing it down the soi.
How long does it live?
Seventy years or more, so this is a decision for the whole family.
อุปกรณ์ที่ต้องมี EN
Every line above is deduced from a value this sheet states, and names which one. Nothing here is a general recommendation. What the sheet does not state is listed too, rather than left out: a kit that looks complete is worse than one that names its gap.
แหล่งอ้างอิง
ชนิดอื่นในกลุ่มเดียวกัน
What this sheet states
This sheet states 5 of 7 of the fields this product runs on. What is missing turns something off: enclosure size audit, the diet section. We show the gap rather than fill it with a plausible number.
UVB is measured but does not count: it is absent from 421 of 678 sheets, and on most of them that is not a gap, since a nocturnal snake's sheet has no reason to state a UV index. Counting it would call the library incomplete without cause.