Thanks, I removed it. Will try to find the MVB lamp. Till then I can make her sun baths, have a huge terrace and it's pretty sunny here.Welcome! Nice effort but number of changes to begin with.
1) Get rid of that UVB light. Spiral and compact UVBs are known to burn reptiles eyes, especially mounted vertically. Replace it with zoomed 100 watt MVB at 18-20" distance. This will take care of day time heat, light and UVB. If you can take your tortoise out in the sun while its warm few times a week for an hour you don't need any indoor UVB. Always provide available shade so the tortoise doesn't overheat with heat stroke.
My plan was to buy a hatching, but couldn't find. So this will be her temporary home(for a month or so). I'll make another one, much bigger from wood.2) habitat is too small. At least twice the size.
The humidity is between 60-75% at the cold side. In the box even higher, no sensor there yet.3) They need humidity and moisture at young age. You may want to mist the enclosure and the tortoise few times a day.
Ok, will buy sphagnum moss, I guessed hay is bad idea4) create humid hide with moist sphagnum moss. The hay will mold fast.
It's hot here, 77F was absolute minimum at 5am. at the cold side at night. I guess in the box was higher. Can you give me a link for the heater to check it, i'll need in the autumn.5) you may need night time heat with ceramic heat emitter hooked up to thermostat above the hide to keep it at 80F inside the hide at night.
Have a lot of sensors and i'm streaming the data to the web, so can check it from smartphone. Can check here: https://xively.com/feeds/6993059306) digital temp and humidity monitor (hardware store or Walmart) to monitor temp and humidity. Temp under the basking light 95-100F. 80F on the cool end.
Ok7) terracotta plant dish sunken into the substrate with water available at tortoises will.
Thanks for the answer. The sand is just 1/5 of the mixture and it's a desert one. Hope won't have any problems with it. I red it here: http://africantortoise.com/substrate.htmI'm new to all this also but have done a lot of reading on this site! All the information you could ever need.
I know I've heard over and over again that sand is a poor substrate to use for health reasons. It looks like you may have some in your enclosure. They have extremely affordable cypress mulch at hardware stores and less than one bag would fill your enclosure. I am finding that it holds moisture very well and I'm having no mold or mildew issues with my humidity at 80+.
I can close part of it or completely at willAlso with your ventilation you will loose the humidity that is crucial to raising a nice smooth Leo.