I currently use these for my three desert Tortoise's closed-ish chamber. I have two of them, connected to a Vivarium Electronics VE300x2 thermostat, to cover the basking area. I like having the heat separate from the light/UV source so I can fine tune everything.
The UV index in and around the Mojave Desert is insane. Yesterday at 9am the UVI in Mojave, Ca, which is on the western edge of the Mojave Desert was already at 7.0. No wonder desert torts are in their burrows most of the time!
I just got my Solarmeter 6.5R and not a moment too soon! I knew my new UV light set up was stronger than my previous one, especially once I added the Arcadia reflectors to my Sun Blaze T5 HO fixtures, but wow! I'm using a Reptisun 10.0 in a 48" fixture. I had to raise it 20" above the basking...
Ants!! :mad: The little SOB's moved into my indoor tortoise enclosure and setup house in the roots of a plant. I discovered them last night and I'm leaving for vacation tomorrow morning. I stayed up until 2am removing all the substrate, plants, and furniture; wiping the inside down and shoving...
Thanks for the feedback, everybody! I decided to remove the adhesive and rubber from the backs of the tile and glue them onto some thin plywood leftover from building the tortoise enclosure. I have a ton of Flex Seal leftover, so I'll slap a few coats on the wood before I start with the Flex...
Does anyone have experience using the peel & stick tile mosaics in their tortoise enclosures? I was thinking of making a slate basking corner where the floor and a portion of wall are black slate so my girls can cozy up to something really toasty. My concern is the adhesive and foam rubber...
Has anyone used the ReptileUV Mega Ray Heat Projector? Their website doesn't have any pictures that show the heating element, but overall it looks just like the Arcadia Heat Projector. The main difference I can see is 60 watts versus 50 watts.
I've read that ReptileUV has had some quality...
Thanks Yvonne! I appreciate your feedback. I looked at a lot of your posts before and during this build. I'm trying to balance the advice found here with that of people who swear by keeping DT outside from the start. It's a fools errand, but here I am.
The (much) smaller enclosure they were in...
Not sure why this reply isn't showing up in the thread. Maybe @PA2019 deleted it, but I'll answer anyway.
I chose materials based on several things, but the main requirement was I needed to be able to cut it easily without the use of power tools, beyond a Dremel. I chose the corregated panels...
A bookcase + PVC frame + corregated roof panels + plexiglass = happy tortoises
This is the [mostly] finished result. I have pictures of the different stages of building, but I'll post those another time. The interior deminsions are 56×28×11.5
I sealed the bookcase with FlexSeal (which has a...
Have you done cilantro already? I looked through the thread and didn't see it, but I'm also catching up on last night's Saturday Night Live at the same time.
Thanks for this thread, it's great!