Indian Elongated Tortoise | Indian Elongated Tortoise for sale 

Indotestudo elongata (meaning Indian Elongated Tortoise) are most active in the mornings and the evenings,

when they hunt their diet of fallen fruits, flowers, dark leafy greens, and protein in the form of the occasional earth worm or slug.

We use a calcium supplement with vitamin D3 on all their food, including pellet ed tortoise diet.

The head coloration of Elongated Tortoises can be pale yellow to almost a ghostly white.

During the breeding season, the skin around the eyes and nose of adults becomes pink.

Indian Elongated Tortoise

– hence the local name“red nosed tortoise.

Elongated Tortoise for sale

This situation is seriously threatening their wild populations. Our juveniles are second and third generation captive bred tortoises, selected for color, and well started.

Distribution of Elongated tortoise price

The species is found in India (Tripura, Jalpaiguri, East Bengal, and Singhbhum in Jharkhand), Nepal, Bangladesh, Burma (or Myanmar),

Laos, Thailand (incl. Phuket), Cambodia, Vietnam, Western Malaysia, Southern China. Type locality: Arakan, Tenasserim, Burma.

Tortoise village

This species of tortoise can be seen everywhere in Ban Kok, a village in Suan Mon sub-district, Mancha Khiri district about 50 km (31.1 mi) from Khon Kaen city in Isan (northeastern) Thailand.

Threats and conservation

The elongated tortoise is a critically endangered species and is in severe decline across its natural range.¹

The principal threats to this species are the mass harvesting of the remaining wild populations for the large and growing food markets in China and elsewhere in East Asia.

In addition, other threats are habitat destruction and illegal collecting for the pet trade. happy tortoise

Elongated tortoises in captivity | Elongated Tortoise for sale

In their natural habitat these tortoises browse a wide variety of plants.

Likewise in captivity, they require a very wide range of foods, not just one type of vegetable.

they require a varied area in which they can access both sun and shade. tortoise table

Their diet is principally a range of vegetables and edible leaves, however they also consume meat, snails, eggs and other food types.

This serves to supplement their diet. Vegetables alone are not sufficiently varied.

This tropical species does not survive in cold climates.

Those exported to Europe and North America for the pet trade usually suffer, and soon die, if they are not given special indoor care.

They also require a constant water source, for bathing and drinking.

Being reptiles, which cannot control their body temperature internally,

they require a varied area in which they can access both sun and shade. tortoise table for sale

This allows them to move around and thus to regulate and maintain their body temperature constant.