See? I can't build a wooden box closed chamber. My indoor tortoises have to live on my kitchen table. So I jury rig what I can to the best of my abilities.
I have plastic tubs that I close up with plastic film:
This has worked just fine for the past couple years. . . that is, until this year.
I think the difference is that William, my tortoise partner, comes and gets the leopard babies within a week or two of them hatching. The box turtles and desert tortoises do very well in this type of "closed chamber" but the leopards? Not so well.
I have a leopard with aberrant scutes that hatched about a month ago and William isn't coming for a few more weeks. Moot point because I want to keep this one.
So he's in the tub on the kitchen table, all covered with plastic, and sitting in a swamp, with visible water showing through the substrate. He has a fluorescent UVB tube, BUT, and here's what I think is going wrong, I use a 60 watt black light for heat. Lately I've been turning the black light off during the day because enough heat comes off the tube to keep the inside of the tub warm enough, but I have it on all night. And this poor little month old baby is starting to pyramid!
I have a small CHE (under 100 watts, but I can't remember the wattage) that I can substitute instead of the black light, but do you think that would be the same thing, far as causing pyramiding is concerned?
I have plastic tubs that I close up with plastic film:
This has worked just fine for the past couple years. . . that is, until this year.
I think the difference is that William, my tortoise partner, comes and gets the leopard babies within a week or two of them hatching. The box turtles and desert tortoises do very well in this type of "closed chamber" but the leopards? Not so well.
I have a leopard with aberrant scutes that hatched about a month ago and William isn't coming for a few more weeks. Moot point because I want to keep this one.
So he's in the tub on the kitchen table, all covered with plastic, and sitting in a swamp, with visible water showing through the substrate. He has a fluorescent UVB tube, BUT, and here's what I think is going wrong, I use a 60 watt black light for heat. Lately I've been turning the black light off during the day because enough heat comes off the tube to keep the inside of the tub warm enough, but I have it on all night. And this poor little month old baby is starting to pyramid!
I have a small CHE (under 100 watts, but I can't remember the wattage) that I can substitute instead of the black light, but do you think that would be the same thing, far as causing pyramiding is concerned?