Hermann's Tortoise Substrate and friends by: Shelly
Your hermann's tortoise will be happy living alone. If you do want to put two together, you have to be sure they each have a place to escape from the other.
As for the substrate, you should know that a hermann's tortoise will be happy outside unless it's really cold or very wet.
A hermann's tortoise will need about 3 square yards of space for each foot of length from nose to tail.
Since a hermann's tortoise needs some humidity, use bark. You will have to be careful that the humidity won't let the temperature get too low.
Some keepers will use newspaper. Be careful. Is the ink vegetable ink? Is there anything in the paper or ink that can harm the tortoise? You would have to check with each printer to find out what the content is.