A giant Aldabra is one of the largest tortoises, and animals in the world
Besides offering baby Aldabra tortoises for sale, we also offer and always recommend the 6-month-old well started Aldabra tortoises for sale. In addition to babies, our customers often choose yearlings over the more fragile baby giant tortoise for sale. As the 2nd larger tortoise on the planet, an Aldabra tortoise is fairly easy to care for when compared to most other species of tortoise for sale. All of our baby tortoise for sale including our Giant aldabra tortoises come with full health guaranteed!
Be sure to build a proper Aldabra tortoise habitat before your baby Aldabra tortoise for sale comes home!
An outdoor enclosure we highly recommend when conditions allow this. The above dimensions apply but the more space that can be provided the better.
Giant Aldabra Environment:
Giant Aldabras seems to tolerate a large range of conditions but a warm stable environment we recommend. An Aldabra Giant tortoise for sale should have a hot spot of at least 100F and a cool section of no less than 75F. Most importantly, a heated hide box should be at least 82F. You can attain this by fixing a heat emitter to the ceiling of the hide box. Lamp wattage of the heat source is going to be determined by the insulation of the hide box and the surrounding temperature. A UV source is a must if you cannot provide daily exposure to natural sunlight. For this a self-ballast mercury vapor lamp we recommend.
Baby Aldabra Tortoise Size
The average weight of an adult male Aldabra tortoise is approximately 550 pounds, although there is one at the Fort Worth Zoo that weighs in at nearly 800 pounds.
Baby Aldabra Tortoise for sale – Life Span of the gentle giants
Aldabra tortoises are long-lived lived gentle tortoise for sale, some giant Aldabra tortoises for sale having reached more than 200 years of age. According to history, the oldest known Giant Aldabra in captivity at the time of this writing is 170 years old. Consider that your new baby Giant Aldabra tortoise will start off small but grow anywhere from 1-6 inches per year! All of the baby Aldabra for sale at our tortoise farm are captive bred!
Giant Aldabra tortoise Diet
Aldabra tortoises are mostly herbivores however they are also opportunistic feeders. In nature they eat grass, leaves, plants, stems and other tasty weeds. They will also feed on insects and dead animals, even their own kind. In captivity they will eat grass, flowers, cactus pads, all sorts of leafy greens and commercial tortoise food. They also like fruit and melons.
Aldabra Tortoise Giant tortoise – natural habitat (Geochelone gigantea)
In nature, you’ll find Aldabra Giant tortoises are found on the islands of the Aldabra Atoll in Seychelles. Interestingly, the Aldabra one of the largest animals as well as tortoises in the world. To date, the largest tortoise on record being the tortoise – Geochelone nigra). Aldabra tortoises have a varied habitat on their home and introduced islands, ranging from mangrove swamps and coastal dune areas to grasslands and scrub forests.
Baby Aldabra tortoise breeders
As baby Aldabra tortoise breeders, we specialize in all ages and sizes of the Giant Aldabra tortoise. Aldabras are hatch at just about 3″ in size, and our hatchling size starts at 4″. Tortoise Mart highly recommends purchasing a well started baby Aldabra tortoise since they are easier to care for. Aldabra tortoise breeders near me require a ton of space to both house and breed these giants. Aldabra tortoises are considered one of the tortoise for sale breeds. Like most tortoise for sale, Aldabras need plenty of food, and space to roam. Galapagos tortoise for sale are also super huge, however, require special permits. For even more species of tortoise for sale, check out our sister website CB Reptile!
