I would appreciate some critiques and comments to improve my new box turtle indoor enclosure.
Here it is, I stood a little to one side to show what was under the UV light. This is for an adult female three toed Boxturtle. The inside dimensions are 20 inches tall 36 inches wide and 52 inches long. It is 150 gallon stock tank.The substrate is 6 to 8 inches deep, 50% coconut Coir And 50% orchid bark. There is a big pile of Spagnolo Moss and leaves in the top right corner and some leaves sprinkled around including a few in the two hides.The hides are located in the middle right-hand side and the bottom left-hand side, they are too little Black plastic trash cans from the dollar store measuring 11 inches long and about 7 inches tall and 9 inches wide I likes them because they were deep but not so deep I couldn't reach in and grab her out if I needed to.
The lighting is 48 inch T5 HO 5.0. The heat lamps are 11 inch domes with 65 W floodlight.
The basking spots very a little bit but are averaging at 93°, warm and 80° and cool and 71°. My UV radians go everywhere from .2 to 2.4 depending on where I measure with my UV index meter. @Tom what do you think of those numbers, should I add more substrate to get the turtle closer to the light? I may not be measuring exactly right. Any suggestions on any of this would be wonderful. Thank you.
Here it is, I stood a little to one side to show what was under the UV light. This is for an adult female three toed Boxturtle. The inside dimensions are 20 inches tall 36 inches wide and 52 inches long. It is 150 gallon stock tank.The substrate is 6 to 8 inches deep, 50% coconut Coir And 50% orchid bark. There is a big pile of Spagnolo Moss and leaves in the top right corner and some leaves sprinkled around including a few in the two hides.The hides are located in the middle right-hand side and the bottom left-hand side, they are too little Black plastic trash cans from the dollar store measuring 11 inches long and about 7 inches tall and 9 inches wide I likes them because they were deep but not so deep I couldn't reach in and grab her out if I needed to.
The lighting is 48 inch T5 HO 5.0. The heat lamps are 11 inch domes with 65 W floodlight.
The basking spots very a little bit but are averaging at 93°, warm and 80° and cool and 71°. My UV radians go everywhere from .2 to 2.4 depending on where I measure with my UV index meter. @Tom what do you think of those numbers, should I add more substrate to get the turtle closer to the light? I may not be measuring exactly right. Any suggestions on any of this would be wonderful. Thank you.