Hello and welcome! Before you do anything else, go remove the cup with the soil with perlite in it. Perlite is deadly. Get it out of there RIGHT NOW!!!I made an enclosure. 2 foot by 2 foot for our new baby western hermans tortoise. Menerva seems to love it but we would love any helpful suggestions.View attachment 368587
Thank you for that it will be a great source of info. Our tortoise is from a breeder with allot of knowledge similar to this. My daughter volenteers at his place feeding the reptiles. At 9 she has goals to be an exotic pet vet. I know the tortoise will out grow that pretty soon but once we move ill be building a 4x8 enclosure. The lamp does keep the temps suggested but im going to up the wattage another 25 as suggested by you and the breeder. Again thank you for the info. I always found the more sources of info the better the results. Im glad we found this forum!Welcome to the forum from South Florida
That is certainly a tiny tort. But the enclosure will be too small very quickly. (Nicely done, btw)
The light that you're using isn't a good source of uvb. Will your tort get any outdoors time in the sun?
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For now i moved the lamp directly on the grateThank you for that it will be a great source of info. Our tortoise is from a breeder with allot of knowledge similar to this. My daughter volenteers at his place feeding the reptiles. At 9 she has goals to be an exotic pet vet. I know the tortoise will out grow that pretty soon but once we move ill be building a 4x8 enclosure. The lamp does keep the temps suggested but im going to up the wattage another 25 as suggested by you and the breeder. Again thank you for the info. I always found the more sources of info the better the results. Im glad we found this forum!