MikeyG86
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Hi everyone.
I just wanted to share with you all the setup I have for my 12 year old Hermanns Timmy. I'm keen to make his home the best I possibly can so I welcome any ideas you guys might have about where I'm going wrong or any improvements you can think of.
Once he's out of hibernation he lives outside and has the run of the garden which I have made safe by adding more gravel boards around the bottom of the whole fence. We moved into our new build house a little over three years ago so I've made the garden from scratch.
I have built a "house" for him to stay in at night and as somewhere to go to bask or to get out of the rain. The main area has a feeding rock and basking lamp and rock. His "bedroom" has a ceramic heater on a thermostat that doesn't allow it to drop below about 16C.
The original one I built had a Perspex roof on the right hand side making it into a kind of cold frame, but I had to rebuild it this year as the wood I used originally was ruined by our English weather and it was easier to make a solid roof as I was in a rush to finish it.
As you can see I have a weed garden for him around his house and I also have other plants dotted around around the garden including petunias (that he has pretty much demolished), begonias (he barely touches), pansies, violas, campanula glomerata superba, Malva alba, aubrietia Audrey blue. These are new this year and as such are still small. I'm also growing some others in a little greenhouse I recently bought.
When we first got Timmy 3 years ago we fed him mainly supermarket curly kale, cucumber and little gem lettuce because we were quite unprepared. We took him in when my wife's grandma could no longer care for him.
He also has access to a cuttle fish bone (that he never uses) a water dish sunk into the ground and various different terrains to walk over.
Although he has plenty of plants to hide under I plan to make him a rock or wood hide soon when I get some time. Just trying to work out whether to put it in a sunny spot or shaded spot.
The main things I'm concerned about are humidity, as he lives outside I can't control it. And his calcium intake as he won't use the cuttlefish and I want him to feed himself from around the garden I can't exactly dust his food with calcium powder either.
I just wanted to share with you all the setup I have for my 12 year old Hermanns Timmy. I'm keen to make his home the best I possibly can so I welcome any ideas you guys might have about where I'm going wrong or any improvements you can think of.
Once he's out of hibernation he lives outside and has the run of the garden which I have made safe by adding more gravel boards around the bottom of the whole fence. We moved into our new build house a little over three years ago so I've made the garden from scratch.
I have built a "house" for him to stay in at night and as somewhere to go to bask or to get out of the rain. The main area has a feeding rock and basking lamp and rock. His "bedroom" has a ceramic heater on a thermostat that doesn't allow it to drop below about 16C.
The original one I built had a Perspex roof on the right hand side making it into a kind of cold frame, but I had to rebuild it this year as the wood I used originally was ruined by our English weather and it was easier to make a solid roof as I was in a rush to finish it.
As you can see I have a weed garden for him around his house and I also have other plants dotted around around the garden including petunias (that he has pretty much demolished), begonias (he barely touches), pansies, violas, campanula glomerata superba, Malva alba, aubrietia Audrey blue. These are new this year and as such are still small. I'm also growing some others in a little greenhouse I recently bought.
When we first got Timmy 3 years ago we fed him mainly supermarket curly kale, cucumber and little gem lettuce because we were quite unprepared. We took him in when my wife's grandma could no longer care for him.
He also has access to a cuttle fish bone (that he never uses) a water dish sunk into the ground and various different terrains to walk over.
Although he has plenty of plants to hide under I plan to make him a rock or wood hide soon when I get some time. Just trying to work out whether to put it in a sunny spot or shaded spot.
The main things I'm concerned about are humidity, as he lives outside I can't control it. And his calcium intake as he won't use the cuttlefish and I want him to feed himself from around the garden I can't exactly dust his food with calcium powder either.