Never hibernate any animal that you haven't had long enough to know that it's truely healthy (at least 1 year of good health).

If you love the tortoise, you can find room for a proper enclosure. If you don't, then you probably should find a new home for the little guy. I'm not try to be offensive or anything, but I have said since BEFORE my first reptile that I didn't have the room. Then after I got my beardie, and took up some space for his tank, more animals started coming in (rescues and ones that I purchased from breeders), and for every single one I said I don't have enough room. I'm up to seven reptiles now (3 of them being russian tortoises), and you know what? I do have the room. It's all about making things work. Mostly the reason I never though I had the room for them was because I didn't feel like I could give up more living space for reptiles, but now that I have, I'm happy I've done it. I think you just need to make some compromises with yourself.

Also, another reason you probably 'don't have the room' is because you're using aquariums. Once I got rid of most of my aquariums I had much more room. They don't stack, so you take up a lot of extra room.

What I would suggest is trying to make a pen about 4'x3', larger if you can, if you can't fit that, 4'x2' would be a minimum. Don't go smaller than that. If you make a pen with legs and just kind of tuck i somewhere in your room where you won't run into it all the time (might have to take something out of your room to do this), you should have a pretty good start for a tort habitat.

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