Feeding AFRICA'S LARGEST TORTOISES!!

There's a lot of food in there for them. Hey guys, welcome to my tortoise enclosure. So if you guys don't know, I have a bunch of tortoises, including this guy, beautiful cicada. I'm gonna put him down here, and now I'm gonna give my tortoises lots of lettuce. So if you guys don't know what a cicada is, this is the third largest species in the world. All right, third largest species of tortoises. Number one, Galapagos, on the Galapagos Islands in Ecuador. Number two, Aldabra in, well, it's a lot. Aldabra in Seychelles Islands. And number three are the cicadas, or the spurred tortoises. That's the actual name. Cicada's a nickname. And I'm gonna get rid of that mulch. As you can see, they love their lettuce, their flowers, their herbivores. What's the difference? Herbivore only eats plants and fruits, right? All stuff from the ground, all greens. And then you got the omnivores, which eat both. And then you have carnivores that only eat meat, right? And here's my third, right? So my kids actually named them after the ninja turtles. We had one more, unfortunately, it passed away. Gotta be very careful with these animals. You know, weather is the issue, right? Because here in South Florida, they love the sun. They love the water. They need some water and lots of food. Every other day we feed them something like this, it's a monstrous amount of food. Man, they really love it, all right? And don't eat from my hands. Like, look, I'll feed a, see this guy. Mm-hmm, right there. Literally eat from my hand. That's hibiscus flower. They love hibiscus flower. It's really yummy flower. And yeah, this is my tortoise enclosure. Yeah, so this is where I basically meditate. This is where I relax, right? So usually come out here once a day. I see them, give them some water, which I'll do right now. Just get some water with the hose. And I usually put their food, put lots of water in their food, because especially in the summer months here in South Florida, it's too hot. It's like 100 degrees right now. It's humid. We're swelting here, like literally burning up. And that's my guys, right? So this is the female. Obviously, smaller one, female. The two bigger guys are males. Oh, wow, ping. And, but yeah, so these are my animals. I love them. I've had them for roughly about a decade, but they're over 30 years old. So again, these are cicadas, the spurred tortoises. They live around 100 plus years. And yeah, they love lettuce. They love fruits. We try to limit the fruits to the sugar. You know, lettuce, flowers all day. Look at that. They love the hibiscus. Hibiscus is the best thing for them. They're gonna just go to town, huh? Just gotta soak them up, right? Yeah, put a little bit of water on their heads like that. Why are they called spurred tortoise or cicadas? Spurred is right here. See, their arms have this. That's spurred, and they use that to burrow. So in the Sahara Desert, what these guys do, they'll walk out, you know, roughly in the mornings and at night looking for food. You know, they'll get some sun, but then they'll burrow. If we have any day under 40 degrees, 40 Fahrenheit, which is, I don't even know, like three or four Celsius, then I have to bring them indoors because they can freeze to death and I don't want that to happen. Luckily for us, if it's cold at night, in the morning it heats up really fast with the sun, and they just literally lay out and they take up all that sun, right? That's what they need. They're cold-blooded animals, so they always have to take in sun. Reptiles, of course, right? Let's keep soaking them up. Give them a nice, fill this up with water. They love this. You know what? I still have a few other tortoises, and this is everything I brought today. So this over there, follow me. Let me show you my other guys. I have a total of 12 tortoises right now. Those are my three big socratas, and over here in my other enclosure, I got a few other guys, right? So here I have, this is called the Redfoot, right? Redfoot, these are from the Amazon Rainforest in South America, right? So what does that entail? It's French Guinea, Suriname, Guyana, Venezuela, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador. They got that right, right? And here we go, beautiful Redfoots. Oh, and here's the rest of them. So I have three Redfoots here, and this big guy, this is my Yellowfoot. So they're basically cousins. This is a big guy. Here, let me show you this guy, how massive he is. So I actually saved this guy. He was crossing the road, and I saved him from being killed. Look how big he is. And as a boy, as you can see, like this, he'll go on top of the female. That's how his stomach is, right? Ooh, his claws. And one thing I have to tell you guys about handling tortoises is that you should never handle them the way I'm handling them right now without gloves. You know, they do carry diseases. I would suggest always wearing gloves. Look, look, he's getting aggressive. Let me just throw this in there. All right, very nice. They start eating, they're hungry. And then right next to you, we have the babies. So over here, we have a bunch of Redfoot babies. So we have their plate right here, little plate. Hey guys, hey, you hungry? Everybody's hungry. I got four of these guys. Few of them I adopted, others were rescued. In South Florida, we find these a lot. Look at my baby marinated. So this is my baby right here. This is a marinated tortoise. So this is the largest tortoise in the Balkans. So basically Greece, Albania, Bulgaria, that's where you'll find these guys. They get really big. They get something like this guy's size, but it will take him, I think, 20 years to get that big. Pat him already for almost two and he hasn't barely grown. And he lives an amazing life. You know, that's why South Florida is the best place, or Florida in general is the best place for having reptiles. I'll just put some more lettuce in here. They love it. Let me get a little hibiscus for them. They love their flowers, right? I'll give these guys some more of this. Hey guys, just give me a sec, give me a sec. That's a lot of food for them. So I'll put the rest back with the big guys. And this is one of the biggest issues we have with tortoises. They literally go into their food and they leave a big turd. Get rid of some of those leaves. Put these back in. Beautiful. Big guy. They're my favorite, by the way. I call him Leonardo. He probably weighs like 50 pounds. He's massive. Let me leave him here. You know, I really wanted to show you guys my beautiful tortoises. Obviously don't do this unless it's your animal and you're taking the risk with your fingers, right? Like literally just gotta be careful here. Let's take a bite. They all love papaya. They love their delicious. Oh, he got scared. Look at that, the jaw. Gotta be really careful. Oh, right there. Very scary. Yeah, guys, I just wanted to take you into a little bit more of my life. Show you my animals. You know, I'm a big tortoise person. Turtles, tortoises. I was thinking of getting a pond and putting a bunch of soft shells, some yellow bellies, red bellies, map turtles. My daughters really wanna see that. You know, and it's fun because with those guys, you throw fish in there and they love eating. It's amazing watching this dinosaur eat. Hey, buddy. Just gotta be really careful, right? The good thing with cicadas is that they know their owners. I've had him for over a decade. He knows me. He knows I'm coming here to treat him right. I give him food. I leave him alone. So these are my cicadas, my red foots, my yellow foots, my marinated tortoise, got 12 of them. Do you guys have animals? What animals do you have? Do you have turtles, tortoises? Please let me know in the comments below. I really wanna know more about you guys and take you more behind the scenes of my life, right? So what I do usually is I pet him, right? All right, he likes that. Leonardo, not Donatello. I don't like that guy. Rafael's too angry. Well, guys, I hope you enjoyed the video. Please give me a thumbs up, comment below, subscribe to my channel, and yeah, it is hot here in South Florida. Ooh, hot.