Burmese Star Tortoise

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Burmese Star tortoise for sale

Turtle Store is proud to have some of the best vibrant, high yellow Burmese Star Tortoise available. Turtle store offers Burmese stars in the following age groups: Burmese star hatchlings, well started Baby Burmese Star tortoises, Yearlings and Juveniles.

We highly recommend well-started babies or yearlings over Burmese star tortoise hatchlings for sale.  The well starts and yearling Burmese Star Tortoises for sale are past the fragile hatchling stages.  Also, by 4-6 months of age, they are great eaters and have a very smooth shell from being raised here with perfect humidity.

Burmese Star tortoise care

Caring for a Burmese or Indian star tortoise or sale is reasonably easy, so long as you invest the time to learn.  Russians are fairly small tortoises and therefore only require a small habitat, at full maturity of say 2×4′, though larger is always better.  Multiple female Russian tortoises may be housed together in groups of up to 6, but size should be 4 cubic feet larger per female.  Using a tortoise table, or tortoise house kit will work, just pay close attention to temperature and humidity.  A baby tortoise, in general, will need higher humidity as the main variable for success.

Burmese Star tortoise personality

They have a very outgoing personality of all the tortoise breeds for sale. They are also said to be the easiest to care for and can endure a wide range of temperature. This is what makes the Burmese Star Tortoise so hearty. Burmese Star Tortoise can live 60 – 90 years with proper care and can reach sizes of 12 – 13 inches on average.

These Tortoises are some of the rarest tortoises for sale online and can be very very hard to find. Luckily, here at Turtle Store, we have quite a few ready to find them a forever home! Remember, when looking for Burmese Star Tortoise yearlings for sale online, look no further than Turtle Store!

Burmese Star tortoise temperature

Baby Burmese Star tortoises for sale should be kept with an ambient temperature of 86 degrees.  A cold spot of 80 is fine and a warm spot of 95 is also nice, however, the ambient temp remains the most important.  Here at Turtle store, our main concern is the ambient temp and not getting too cold.  We focus more on this than the temperature gradient that is so widely talked about.  Finding that the tortoises’ theme to thrive with a median temperature of 86, we now maintain this throughout our daytime enclosure temperatures.  Evening temps are allowed to drop into the high 70s, however with very slow moving, humid air, it seems a tad warmer and “muggier” for the tortoises.

Burmese Star tortoises and humidity

Humidity is important with all baby tortoise species, including the Testudo tortoise family.  Baby Burmese Star tortoises require humidity in the area of 75%.  When kept indoors, the habitats tend to be on the dryer side and therefore will require some work to increase the humidity where need be.  Using a lid, or some type of closed system will help tremendously.

Here at the Turtle store, we raise all of our baby star tortoise species as well as many others in closed systems with high humidity and LOW air movement.  From years of breeding adult Burmese Star tortoises, we now have mastered the art of raising these beautiful Burmese Star tortoise hatchlings.

baby Burmese Star tort diet

Variety is key when talking about what to feed your new

Burmese Star tortoise.  It isn’t really about one thing, it is about feeding a wide variety of high-quality greens and veggies.  By feeding a variety you will ensure not to “overdose” your tortoise on certain things.  For example, spinach is bad.  If you feed spring mix that contains spinach as one of 15 ingredients, it will not be too much where you need to worry about spinach.  If all that you ever feed is spring mix, then you have a problem.  Turtle store uses a mixture we chop daily of Romaine, Kale, Dandelion, Spring Mix, Endive, Collard, Mustard, and Beet Greens.  In addition, we soak our mazuri tortoise chow in water mixed with a 50:50 ratio of calcium with D3 AND Vionate (a multi-vitamin and mineral powder).

Burmese Star tortoise for sale water

Giving your baby Burmese Star access to water is preferred, and soaking daily is required.  Soak your baby tortoise in a shallow soaking dish with opaque sides so the tortoise cannot see out.  Soak for 10 minutes in 85-88 degree warm water once daily.  Typically soaking your tortoise and then placing them directly atop their pile of greens and Mazuri is best each morning.  Establishing a daily routine when possible will benefit your tortoise a great deal.

baby Burmese Star tortoise UVB lighting

UVB light exposure is extremely important for all tortoises, including baby Burmese Star tortoises.  We recommend a Reptisun UVB 10.0 lamp, T5 (tube style).  Screw in lamps like the cheap spirals are not recommended and really do not have much of a radius of coverage.   Think about the tortoise being outside, getting constant UVB and UVA from every angle.  Now, think about the exposure they will get in their habitat inside or outside your home, and try to make them similar.  Not easy, is it?  Using a T5 high output lamp will give you the best scenario.  Using the 10% lamp is good, however for distances 15-24″ above the tortoise, a 12% lamp is recommended.  Arcadia UVB lamps are the best in our opinion, though a tad more pricey, they also last twice as long.

Burmese Star tortoise habitat

Baby Burmese Star tortoises for sale can exist in something as small as a 24×12″ sweater box.  Keeping humidity high is key, so these work.  Using a fish tank is not recommended but also can work if set up properly.  You will want to cover the sides so that the tort cannot see out, as that will cause he or she to become anxious and constantly try to escape via the clear see-thru side(s).  We like to use the 24″x15″x48″long PVC style single glass front reptile cages available at reptile basics.  For UVB fitting them out with a 36″ T5 10.0 fixture is easy.

Baby Burmese Star tortoise for sale – substrate

For substrate, we recommend a nice mixture of 50:50 potting soil and potting mix (organic).  Be sure there are no additives or fertilizers included as that could kill your tort.  Baby Burmese Star tortoises do burrow so providing 4″ of a substrate is recommended and spraying it down with a pressure sprayer daily is great.  Spraying the soil and your tort(s) in the morning to simulate a morning dew so to speak works create.  One added but important benefit of doing this is creating a super humid microclimate for your tortoise should they choose to burrow.  It is in these microclimates in which baby tortoise exists in the wild.  Remember not to call the Burmese Star tort a Burmese Star turtle or Burmese star for sale, it’s a tortoise!

As with all of our baby tortoises for sale, adult tortoise for sale and turtles for sale online, our Eastern Hermann’s tortoise are guaranteed to arrive alive, well and healthy! All reptiles for sale available at the Turtle store come with a full health guarantee.  With a REAL biologist on-site you are gonna say this is my turtle store of choice, and mean it!

Like all of our tortoise for sale, and baby tortoise, this special reptile comes with our full live arrival and 7 day health guarantee!  Be sure to check out all of our pet tortoise for sale online.  We offer a full line of tortoises on sale year round including:

• baby Russian tortoise
• Hermanns tortoise
• Red footed tortoise
• cherry head tortoise
• leopard tortoise
• sulcata tortoise
• Albino Sulcata
• Ivory Sulcata
• indian star tortoise
• sri lankan star tortoise
• burmese star tortoise
• Greek tortoise
• Burmese Mountain tortoise
• pancake tortoise
• Aldabra tortoise
• Large tortoises for sale
• Small tortoise for sale