Hello everyone,
I found a Greek spur thighed tortoise about a week ago and have been caring for it ever since. I got a 2 foot by 3 foot wooden enclosure for it and I'm using aspen substrate. For heat I'm using zoomed 100w mvp bulb. The basking area is around 95 Fahrenheit, not sure about the other area's but my house's air conditioning is set to 72.5 Fahrenheit all day.
The thing is, my tortoise is not very active. I turn on the lights, including the mvp, at 6 am in the morning and turn it off at 9 pm at night. I wake him up at 6:30am before school to feed him and when I come home at 2pm, he is always sleeping (either under a hide or burrowed) and stays sleeping till the next day. Sometimes I wake him up after school to soak him but then he goes back to sleep. According to my family, while I'm at school, after he finishes eating, he basks a little then he goes to sleep directly and doesn't move afterwards.
I worried that he is way too inactive. I think maybe his enclosure's temperature is incorrect or maybe something else? Here is a picture of his enclosure, please tell me if there is something wrong that I am doing or if there is something I should be doing.
Thanks
PS: He's burrowed under the substrate to the left of the ball
I found a Greek spur thighed tortoise about a week ago and have been caring for it ever since. I got a 2 foot by 3 foot wooden enclosure for it and I'm using aspen substrate. For heat I'm using zoomed 100w mvp bulb. The basking area is around 95 Fahrenheit, not sure about the other area's but my house's air conditioning is set to 72.5 Fahrenheit all day.
The thing is, my tortoise is not very active. I turn on the lights, including the mvp, at 6 am in the morning and turn it off at 9 pm at night. I wake him up at 6:30am before school to feed him and when I come home at 2pm, he is always sleeping (either under a hide or burrowed) and stays sleeping till the next day. Sometimes I wake him up after school to soak him but then he goes back to sleep. According to my family, while I'm at school, after he finishes eating, he basks a little then he goes to sleep directly and doesn't move afterwards.
I worried that he is way too inactive. I think maybe his enclosure's temperature is incorrect or maybe something else? Here is a picture of his enclosure, please tell me if there is something wrong that I am doing or if there is something I should be doing.
Thanks
PS: He's burrowed under the substrate to the left of the ball