Obviously a 10 inch tortoise isn t going to need an entire room of your house but if you can provide that the tortoise would incredibly happy.
Full size full grown baby sulcata tortoise.
Description of the sulcata tortoise these tortoises can grow to be quite large.
Within the first few years of hatching these tortoises can grow to 10 in.
Look for a tortoise with clear eyes and a smooth shell.
Fully grown they weigh in at a hefty 230 lbs.
Depending on the exact locale of african sulcata expect your new baby tortoise for sale to reach at least 75 lbs.
Depending on the region from which the sulcata tortoise is from they can grow even larger.
And if possible ask to see it eat.
Large heavy and slow to move once full grown a baby sulcata tortoise is a mini dinosaur.
A full grown african sulcata tortoise can grow anywhere from 18 28 with males growing larger than females.
There are many things to consider and planning will help you and your pet in the end.
In this article i will go over what you need to know to house both a juvenile and adult tortoise.
Housing an adult sulcata tortoise is definitely different from housing a juvenile one.
This weeks ask kenan question is how quickly do elongated tortoises grow and when do they reach their full size it was sumitted on our patreon page by j.
Long and grow quite rapidly from the time that they hatch.
The full grown sulcata can measure up to 36 and weigh 100 200 pounds.
Full grown russian tortoises reach about 10 inches though many are smaller than this.
Newly hatched tortoises typically measure 1 2 in length but can weigh 50 pounds at 5 years old.