Reptile Care. Greek, Marginated & Egyptian tortoises.

[@tarasostapiuk8096]

Good video. Testudo tortoises its my love. Keep them outside too

[@LanceKirkman]

Thank you Jerry!

[@BlaineHeggie]

Awesome video! Thanks for the info!

[@1prairiedog]

Also, I didn't saw the widest distributed ibera taxon, the Balkan and western Turkey one, the one known sometimes by the old name Testudo ibera racovitzai. In the Balkans, it is found in Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, North Macedonia, Greece. Seeing that they came from here, also from most of Turkey (wich is mostly a HARSH winter country, except the coastline and the extreme southeast), may give courage to keepers that are affraid their tortoises will be unable to take the cold.

[@Lisa-qy3bp]

Richard Fife love his vids ❤👍👍

[@commercialelectrician133]

Great video

[@natural_n_proud597]

Great video!! I enjoyed that. I have a marginated and I never really get the information i need. Thank you

[@tiffanyl3296]

Great information!

[@ourleopardtortoises6543]

Very interesting maybe I should get some and start a group of my own

[@1prairiedog]

Jordan and especially Syria are COLDER than southern Arizona, so they would have no problem there. Amazing collection, but I don't understand why are you keeping hatchlings indoors. Especially for horsfieldi- they can take Idaho or even Dakota winters, if they have easy diggable sandy soil to go deep, as they know. Also- in the graeca complex- don't keep ibera with other graecas- maybe wrong, but I saw that huge ibera female and a smaller, suspicios-looking one, rather a graeca taxon. Ibera are temperate tanks, mostly from harsh winter areas in Balkans andTurkey, and I consider them as the toughest tortoises, as they can take up to SIX months of hibernation in a Colorado-Nebraska like climate, plus the tolerance to humidity, wich horsfieldi lacks. Mixing with a tender, north-African or Middle East related species will result in undesirable hybrids. Some could not see the difference between ibera (I am sure it will be elevated as a species, since it's so different and geographically distant) and some graeca- indeed, certain individuals could be difficult to tell. Living in Romania, I am so familiarised to ibera, that I would not mistake one for a darker graeca, but I see mines all the time and also saw them in habitat. Also Eastern Hermanns, T.h. boettgeri, are beasts- having them here too, taking long, snowy winters, taking moisture better than most, like our iberas, but I still see ibera as being tougher, less picky, less sensitive.

[@Ssss16483]

Aren't you worried about hawks when you keep tortoises outside? I'm in southern california and have been looking at egyptian tortoises but I was trying to weigh the pros and cons of keeping them indoor or outdoor. I'm thinking of having a tortoise habitat (46'w 22'd) with a microclimate for humidity. How much egyptian tortoises do you think should live in this enclosure? I'm also considering having one outside during summer with a wire mesh roof during most of the year except winter. But the mornings probably get too cold for them.

[@tyliful]

great vid. do you have golden greeks for sale.

[@hera2881]

I can,t see any dandelion or clover. Food from market only?

[@jerrydfife]

Those are good food sources. I also use leaves from my mulberry tree, grapevine leaves, etc.

[@hera2881]

@@jerrydfife great ! Thank you .

[@I-am-noone-4567]

Hi jerry. Does your libyan Greek brumate outdoor in the winter time ?

[@jerrydfife]

Yes, but there have been some issues, especially with the males coming out of brumation.

[@allanzju]

Hi Jerry, are you in US? do you have any Egyptian tortoise available?

[@jerrydfife]

I don't have any available.