Trimming Tortoises Nails


Trimming Tortoises Nails
We have two Russian Tortoises at home. They're nails have become sharp. Would cutting them be something we should do? They live in a 20 gallon long tank habitat.
Tortoises often need their nails trimmed just as lizards, dogs, cats and birds. In the wild, their nails naturally wear. In captivity, they lack the abrasion to wear the nails down. You may need to trim all or some of the nails. Use regular human toenail clippers. Have a stiptic powder handy to use in case the cut makes the nail bleed. I prefer ferric subsulfate stiptic powder. Most Horsefields or Russian tortoises grow toenails slowly, needing only annual trimming
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Tortoises often need their nails trimmed just as lizards, dogs, cats and birds. In the wild, their nails naturally wear. In captivity, they lack the abrasion to wear the nails down. You may need to trim all or some of the nails.

Use regular human toenail clippers. Have a stiptic powder handy to use in case the cut makes the nail bleed. I prefer ferric subsulfate stiptic powder. Most Horsefields or Russian tortoises grow toenails slowly, needing only annual trimming

Trimming Tortoises Nails

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