How Big Do Marginated Tortoises Get

Finn

Hello! I am planning on getting a marginated tortoise.
I have a couple of questions and it would be a great aid if you could reply these for me

1.

When a person says their tortoise is
a hatchling
a juvenile
a subadult
an adult
a convenance-sized tortoise

how large is it? (or more probable, how big should it be? how big would you expect information technology to be?)

2.

I accept never had a tortoise before, and I heard some people recommend a a bigger sized tortoise for beginners, considering young tortoises are harder to take care of.
Simply I am living in Korea and from a lot of tortoise enquiry in Korean websites, it looks similar many people are keeping them in poor weather(like minor glass vivariums, whorl lamps, newspaper substrate and other things) and doesn't even know the trouble. Fifty-fifty the most experienced keepers are doing those (I judge tortoise study doesn't have a long history here compared to some other parts in the world).
So I am a piffling flake worried about getting a large tortoise. I could accept it to a vet, but I wouldn't know so much near stress-related health bug that might come.
Considering all of the above, what size would you recommend? (preferably in cm)

I am non a native English speaker and I have well-nigh no cognition of pet-related vocabulary. If any give-and-take I used is inappropriate, I am very sorry. Please be generous when correcting me :'(

Thank y'all for reading. lots of love :<3:

biochemnerd808

I am so happy to hear that you are doing your enquiry first. As far every bit size, I tin tell you how large my tortoises are, just to requite yous a baseline. I've raised mine hot/boiling, so they may exist a bit bigger than their peers that were kept on a express diet and cooler, dryer conditions.

Buttercup is 19 months old and weighs 302g. She is just over 4" long.
Bubbles is 9 months quondam, is 3.five" long and weighs 195g. Her mother was very large, and she was a huge hatchling. She is very smooth.
Blossom is 10 months onetime, is 3" long, and weighs 118g. She was a petite hatchling, only has shown steady, smooth growth.

I took in a little lumpy babe that had been kept very dry out and was chewed by a dog. He is nearly 10 months old, is two.5" long and weighs 72g. He will hopefully catch up later.

Raising a baby tortoise isn't really that different from raising an developed, except for a baby's need for more humidity and warmth. I provide a hot humid hibernate that stays 80 degrees F (thermostat) 24-hour interval and night. The rest of the enclosure has the usual temp slope (95 degree basking, 75 degrees cool side etc). Babies also are more prone to becoming dehydrated, so I soak them daily, and I mist them several times per twenty-four hours. This treatment has resulted in wonderfully smooth shells. I imitated the care sheet that Tom wrote for baby RTs (check it out in the Russian tortoise section). They likewise need more calcium, and Marginateds are good at helping themselves to calcium from a cuttlefish bone.

Since information technology sounds like tortoise husbandry isn't the greatest in Korea, getting a baby might exist a good option to ensure that your baby grows up healthily. Care is very similar to Russian tortoises, except that Margies end up getting bigger. Margies are besides more prone to pyramiding. I take both RTs and Margies, and love both species. Both are a good 'beginner' tortoise as long as proper intendance is provided - RTs are a little more forgiving. Information technology boils downwardly to availability and preference in the end. RTs lay fewer eggs at a time, so may be harder to come by. Margies expect fancier equally babies, but cease up existence almost uniformly black as adults.

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