Had a bit of a fright today with our homeana hingeback adults.
This year I'm going to build them an enclosure, we are having a lot of work done to our house so as a temporary setup I moved there enclosure into an un-insulated garden shed. I just pumped in heat faster than it can escape to get me through until a permanent enclosure is made.
Yesterday at around 6pm all was good. It got to -3°c/26.6f last night and the power to the shed tripped out. This morning they were freezing and 2 of them looked dead, the smallest one especially. I gunned them and they were at 1°c, they must have got colder during the night, Anyway I put all five in an enclosure set at 27°c, but not near a heat source so they would gradually warm back up but not burn under a heat source, I thought about a warm bath, but it didn't make sense to put a freezing tort in warm water to shock it and maybe even drown due to not being able to move.
I was just hoping they would all be OK in time.
8hrs later all 5 are walking about and 2 are celebrating the return of the heat by copulating.
Thinking about it logically these creatures have been around for millions of years, I'm pretty certain a cold snap here and there wouldn't finish them off.
Few. Need to get a move on with this enclosure.
This year I'm going to build them an enclosure, we are having a lot of work done to our house so as a temporary setup I moved there enclosure into an un-insulated garden shed. I just pumped in heat faster than it can escape to get me through until a permanent enclosure is made.
Yesterday at around 6pm all was good. It got to -3°c/26.6f last night and the power to the shed tripped out. This morning they were freezing and 2 of them looked dead, the smallest one especially. I gunned them and they were at 1°c, they must have got colder during the night, Anyway I put all five in an enclosure set at 27°c, but not near a heat source so they would gradually warm back up but not burn under a heat source, I thought about a warm bath, but it didn't make sense to put a freezing tort in warm water to shock it and maybe even drown due to not being able to move.
I was just hoping they would all be OK in time.
8hrs later all 5 are walking about and 2 are celebrating the return of the heat by copulating.
Thinking about it logically these creatures have been around for millions of years, I'm pretty certain a cold snap here and there wouldn't finish them off.
Few. Need to get a move on with this enclosure.
