You know what?Could be many reasons:
In any case, the door should be shut at night, as Yvonne said, to keep the tortoise in and everything else out. I go around every night, count all of mine, examine them, check their boxes and the temperatures, put them in if they aren't already in, and latch the doors shut. Then I open the doors every morning and they come out when they want.
- Temperature to hot or too cold.
- Rats or other critters moving around and making her uncomfortable.
- The area in the pic is very well lit up. Might be too bright. Should be dark at night.
- Your moving around might attract her attention and bring her out.
How about some pictures of your tortoise?I read once on the Arizona tortoise compound site that there's have come out of their burrows with the full moon and stay out because it is so light, even to the point of freezing to death because high desert temps can drop significantly. I know my guy (about 100lbs, age unknown) will stay out all night if it has been too hot and not cooling off enough during the evening. So being summer I would say too hot or too light but who really knows!!
You know what?
I forgot to turn the heaters off so it was probably to hot. They are off now.
She has never done that before
My question is the same ar Mark's. No thermostat? I turn my thermostats down in to the 70s at night. Even when its 105 here during the day, it can drop to 55 at night. I set my adult sulcata thermostats into the low 70s in summer when the day time highs exceed 100.You know what?
I forgot to turn the heaters off so it was probably to hot. They are off now.
She has never done that before
That's something I rarely post about as I think it's boring. But I keep turtles and tortoises in the absolutely easiest and cheapest way possible and still give them a good life. I am pretty lazy, my Sulcata are in an outside shed and if I could somehow connect a garage door opener to their doggie doors it would be completely automatic. I have basking lights (4), CHE's (2) ambient heater, Kane heat mat, all on timers. That's a really good idea...you members who do it yourself, Maro2Bear, Blackdog, ZEROPILOT YvonneG Tom and others who I am forgetting right now, Ink, Relic, Karen in Calif, the 2 Carols, if we could figure out how to do it, think of all the money we could make by manufacturing electric doggie doors for tortoises...my idea, your labor...My question is the same ar Mark's. No thermostat? I turn my thermostats down in to the 70s at night. Even when its 105 here during the day, it can drop to 55 at night. I set my adult sulcata thermostats into the low 70s in summer when the day time highs exceed 100.
That's something I rarely post about as I think it's boring. But I keep turtles and tortoises in the absolutely easiest and cheapest way possible and still give them a good life. I am pretty lazy, my Sulcata are in an outside shed and if I could somehow connect a garage door opener to their doggie doors it would be completely automatic. I have basking lights (4), CHE's (2) ambient heater, Kane heat mat, all on timers. That's a really good idea...you members who do it yourself, Maro2Bear, Blackdog, ZEROPILOT YvonneG Tom and others who I am forgetting right now, Ink, Relic, Karen in Calif, the 2 Carols, if we could figure out how to do it, think of all the money we could make by manufacturing electric doggie doors for tortoises...my idea, your labor...