Meet Puddles, A Wild-Caught Sulcata Tortoise!
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- Опубликовано: 25 янв 2020
- Just after the rains let up my neighbors called for a baby tortoise identification. I began walking over to their place fully expecting to see a hatchling desert tortoise that had been coaxed out by the rain or even displaced by the flowing washes and temporary waterways that the storms generate. Imagine my surprise when I found a very young baby tortoise endemic to the grasslands and prairies of Africa.
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Wow, that’s amazing! I imagine that if sulcatas somehow got established en masse in the Arizona desert they could create some serious impacts!
The Sonoran Desert is a bit more harsh than their native grasslands in Africa. But considering sulcatas evolved in a tropical environment* and still do well in their current native habitat, I wouldn't be surprised if they were tough enough to establish without human assistance down here.
The biggest impact would be their dang tunnels. Those would seriously undermine the dirt roads around here and even destabilized paved roads.
*Sulcatas in their current form are approximately 24 million years old. During that time, their native habitat was far more tropical, much like Central America. Ponder that the next time you are considering the "perfect" tortoise enclosure ;-)
@@TheArcticReptileRanch Tortoises are true survivors!
I like turtles
So glad that little guy has you! ❤️
Thank you!
So CUTE!!! Congratulations!
Thank you! I'll do what I can to turn it into a buckskin bulldozer!
Fantastic video!
Thank you.
Good job
Thank you very much!
Great video of of all your tortoises and care but we can't hear you at times even with the volume all the way up great videos
New to your channel!! Awesome informative video👍🏻👍🏻
Angelina, thank you for watching, I am glad you enjoyed the video. Also, thank you for stopping by, I hope you linger around and watch a few more of my videos, maybe even subscribe if you enjoy reptile videos.
Keep them high temperatures (60-110 for hatchings) and keep its habitat humid 70-95%
Should never go below 80 degrees, 60 with that humidity will give respotory infection
this is pretty good content, but seriously...you need clip-on mic.
can you show how hard the plastron supposed to be at the early stages ?
Nice to see you back :-) interesting video, Would the substrate mix you used be ok for any tortoise enclosure? Thanks for sharing :-)
Karen, glad to see you are still around and watching the videos that I put out, thank you. And yes, that mix would be adequate with any species of tortoise. Using an irrigation system of some kind could further tune it to an individual tortoise's needs.
U know your stuff but I've read no no on arugla, and spinach, n iceberg lettuce. A little is ok but not on a regular basis or mass quantities. N 4 a bowl...no need get a flat rock, that way she's not trying to fit n there. Camp Kenan is a good one on tort care 2.
What are those scissors called?
Hi, I have a cold in Korea. How can I take care of it? My nose is running
(Seolgata Land turtle)
Please let me know. Please.🥺
To begin with, make an appointment with the closest reptile veterinarian that you can find. Until that appointment, some things that you can do are to make sure the environmental conditions are correct. Centrochelys sulcata(often called sulcata tortoises in the west) require warm environments around 28-31 Celcius. A warm somewhat humid environment is ideal and simulates the tunnels that they dig. If yours has a runny nose though, that humidity could be bad for it even in warm conditions. Keeping the temps warm will help the immune system. Hydration is also important; an increase in temp will require daily soaks in water around 32C. If you see the tortoise drinking, add an electrolyte solution the next time you soak it. If it is eating make sure you add calcium powder to its food. Nerve conduction and immune response benefit greatly from this mineral. And lastly, keep is separated from any other healthy tortoises or turtles. After your trip to a veterinarian, let me know how this little guy is doing.
My sulkata baby lost his nail 💅
Should it grow again,
Please help me brother
Why keep an animal in a box?, its mean&twisted (radiation lamp?? 😱😵🤢😳 What about the sun???) smh
First, thank you for watching this video. While you obviously have some concerns, I assure you this little tortoise is in the best place it could possibly be for survival. Instead of shaking your head, perhaps you should research the subjects upon which you are commenting since you appear to have no true understanding of them. That is fine, as always, I can articulate why your concerns are unfounded.
“WHY KEEP AN ANIMAL IN A BOX?” With respect to turtles and tortoises in general, their wild populations are being decimated directly for food and the growing Asian pet trade and indirectly by habitat destruction in the name of human “progress”. Without captive efforts, there would be maybe 20 species of tortoises still left vs the ~42 that are currently hanging on by a wild thread. With respect to this particular tortoise, it is a non-native species that should not be in the wilds of Arizona.
“IT’S MEAN & TWISTED” Clearly you have no idea what the life of a hatchling is like. Field studies indicate that at best, only 5% of hatchlings will make it to adulthood. They are either predated upon, starve to death or die of dehydration pretty early on in the wild. The lucky ones seek shelter and wait out their early years which brings me to your next concern.
“RADIATION LAMP? WHAT ABOUT THE SUN???” Well, hatchling tortoises that hang out in the sun will quickly die from one of two causes: predators or dehydration. You see, hatchling tortoises seek out shelter in leaf piles, in roots systems of bushes and trees, in tunnels dug by adults, and basically anywhere that is out of the harsh sun and away from a predator’s grasp. They spend the better part of their young lives in hiding until they are large enough to not be eaten by, well, everything.
When you say radiation lamp, I get the impression that English is not your first language, or you do not understand light waves. The lamps simulate a healthy amount of UVB radiation without the more desiccating IR wavelengths the sun emits. It gives them what they need to allow for proper metabolic activities to occur. These lamps can be used all day and do not harm the tortoises(at proper distances). When temperatures are optimal, I do bring my smaller tortoises outside for supervised, short term sun exposure and natural grazing. They do not live outside full time, unsupervised until they are of a size that they are not likely to be carried off by an aerial predator or feral cat. Even when they do, you want to guess where they spend most of their time? Dug into shallow pits that they dug beneath the bushes that I’ve planted or under the sunshades I’ve provided. Those areas give them optimal temperatures and adequate humidity even in the peak of an Arizona summer.
In summary, before commenting in such a harsh and negative way, try reading up on the subject instead of allowing feeling to dictate your written concerns. YouTubing is also an alternative learning resource but there is a very large amount of misinformation and very incorrect facts to be found on this platform. If you haven’t already, hangout on my channel and watch some of my other videos and you’ll learn some actual, solid information about reptile keeping.
@@TheArcticReptileRanch oh, ok, nice1! Cheers for the interesting info! I take it back, that's decent that you've bothered learning so much about them (we call them heat lamps in uk)
Fair point, I thought I could relate to the 'stuck in a box with worms' lifestyle, but actually, the hatchlings alternative life sounds more familiar; please look out for any females you care about 👍 peace
@@pixieseagull7791 Thank you for your re-response. Interesting and factual info is what I strive to provide. I don't like telling folks they're wrong then walking away. Although that seems to be the modern way, it is not a very socially helpful way.
People aren't often wrong per se, they are more often just misinformed. If I can add to a person's understanding and show them a more correct picture, than I have done a good job as an educator on this platform. Thank you again for caring enough to comment.