Sri Lankan Star Tortoise

Description

Sri Lankan Star Tortoise hatchling

Baby Sri Lankan Star tortoise for sale are available for sale online, from time to time are medium-high prices.  Because a Sri Lankan Star tortoise is a medium species of tortoise, they only lay a couple of eggs, which drives their price up over larger species of tortoise, and giant tortoise for sale.

Star tortoise care

Keeping baby Sri Lankan tortoise is quite simple.  Please take the time to explore our Indian Star tortoise Care sheet.  The Indian Star tortoise care sheet offers a great deal of guidance.  Our care sheet covers anything from Indian star tortoise habitat setup, to general care.  Also, it has a great tortoise safe foods list and more.

Star tortoise Habitat:

Keeping anywhere from 1-4 Sri Lankan Star tortoises can be achieved in a variety of ways, with small space. Sri Lankan Star tortoise hatchlings can be kept in anything from an aquarium, or an open top tub, to a sweater box.  Keeping baby Star tortoise is easy so long as you maintain the correct parameters.  Below we briefly touch on all of the important parameters that will be important to raising a happy, health baby star tortoise to a beautiful adult Star tortoise.  For Sri Lankan Star tortoise hatchlings, we recommend something in the area of 24″x12″ at a minimum and no larger than 2’x4′ until they are at least 18 months old.

  Keeping the habitat compact will enable you to dial in the parameters easier while maintaining a small enough space for your tortoise to feel secure yet not get “lost”.

Star tortoise Humidity

Humidity is key when raising a healthy star tortoise.  Humidity will not only affect the overall health of your tortoise, it will directly reflect the look as well.  Shells that are seen with heavy pyramiding are a result of 1 of 2 things, or a combination of both.  Humidity should be kept in the neighborhood of 72-75% for baby star tortoises for sale.  Once mature, Humidity can be kept closer to 50% for an Adult Star tortoise.

Keeping humidity in safe range will also aid in your baby Sri Lankan Star tortoise for sale remaining hydrated and growing properly.  When humidity slips under 60% for an extended period of time, it will lead to a pyramid shelled, dehydrated baby tortoise.  For this reason, we prefer to house our baby Sri Lankan star tortoises as well as our baby Burmese star tortoise for sale in closed systems, with very limited air movement.

Baby Sri Lankan Star tortoises love humid, low movement air

Low movement, high humidity air with humidity around 75% is how we keep our baby Sri Lankan Star tortoise groups.  It allows them to grow evenly, with very smooth shells.  Humid air with low movement and warm ambient temperature really does seem to allow them to grow so very quickly.  At the same time, their shells remain and grow smooth like a bowling ball.

Sri Lankan Star tortoise diet & food list

Variety is the spice of life they say, and it certainly is the most important part of what to feed your baby Sri Lankan star tortoise.  Feeding your new Sri Lankan star tortoise hatchling a wide variety of high-quality fresh greens and veggies is key to success.  Sris as we call them, really do love a variety of food, and we here at tortoise town always feed a wide variety of fresh greens.

Tortoise town prepares our baby tortoise food daily by chopping a wide variety of greens.  Greens we feed our baby tortoise include kale, romaine, collard greens, mustard greens, radicchio, various lettuces, dandelion.

We also chop up some yellow squash and chop up some carrots in our blender and spread them across our tortoise salad as we call it.  Soaking mazuri tortoise chow in water until soft, and tossing it with the greens is HIGHLY recommended.  Using Mazuri to feed your little star tortoise also will supplement the lack of real UVB during the indoor months.  When shopping for a new baby tortoise for sale, be sure to choose Tortoise Town!

Sri Lankan Star tortoise Lighting and UVB

Exposing your new baby Star tortoise to proper UVB levels is essential for proper growth.  Without UVB, the Sri Lankan star tortoise will not be able to make and absorb their own vitamin D.  In addition, calcium absorption lowers with lower levels of UVB exposure.  For a strong, healthy baby tortoise, it is key to provide amble amounts of Vitamin D.

How do I do this, you ask? Easily, thru providing your baby Star tortoise proper UVB lighting.  We recommend a T5 high output tube style UVB lamp.  UVB Output is much better than using the cheap, coiled lamps, OR Mercury Vapor lamps. Lastly, remember your light source is not always your heat source.  Heat sources can be provided by way of a heat panel, or heating element, or additional spot lamp style heater.

baby Star tortoise for sale – Heating

Heat sources can be provided by way of a heat panel, or ceramic heating element, or additional spot lamp style heater.  Here at tortoise town we prefer to use heat panels or CREs (Ceramic Heat Emitter).

Keeping the hot spot around 92 Degrees is perfect.  Be sure that the colder end of the Sri Lankan Star tortoise habitat is kept 77-80 degrees at all times.  In the evenings, total temperatures can drop in the neighborhood of 75-77, so long as humidity is proper and air movement is low.  If Humidity happens to be lower than 60%, try to keep the evening temps in the area of 80.

Sri Lankans are typically available as:

• hatchlings
• well started babies
• yearlings
• juveniles
• young adults

baby Sri Lankan Star tortoise Water

Always provide access to fresh, shallow water for your new baby Sri Lankan Star tortoise for sale.  If keeping a juvenile Sri Lankan star tortoise, or even young adult Sri Lankan star tortoise, water access is still important.

For baby stars, we soak them twice a day for 7 minutes per soak in super shallow water.  Lastly, just be careful when soaking your baby.  They can drown so very quickly!

Sri Lankan Star Tortoise Food

Here at TT, we feed mostly all of our baby and adult tortoises the same combination of a wide variety of greens, and veggies.  Our daily “chopped salad” is a combination of chopped Collard Greens, Mustard Greens, Yellow Squash, Softened and soaked Mazuri tortoise chow, shredded carrots, and the occasional tomato.

Baby Star tortoise for sale

Baby Sri Lankan star tortoise are as cute as can be, but they need proper care to thrive.  When setting up for a baby stars, the most important thing is humidity.  Our biologist advises that high humidity and low air flow are the key to success. With limited air flow, and high humidity, baby Sri star tortoises will absolutely thrive.

It was a common misconception years ago, that most species of Star tortoise, including the Sri, needed very dry air.  While that may be the case in well established larger adults, we have found that Sri Lankan star tortoise babies need it to be humid.