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UPDATE: He is loving his new house!!! he is already drinking, eating and exploring all by himself. In his temporary home, he would just hide all day and I had to pick him up to eat or drink.. I switch to 50w bulb and temperatures are perfect whole thing is in the 80s and humidity is 80!! Woohoo...

Thanks everyone it took some work for sure!! There is small holes at the top and back and the sides have small openings for air flow should i add more holes like an air vent in the top??? And my bulb just says 100w daytime not sure what kind tho, i think i may switch to the 60w thanks!

Hi everyone! I had a hard night working on my enclosure but its finally finished with some minor tweaks still... After a month of falling in love with my baby redfoot and a month of research, stress, fun, collecting a million supplies, and more research and all thanks to this site (also after...

Thanks for your help everyone heres the info: My enclosure will be 36 inches long 25 inches side (think coffee table)and 20 inches high.. i do have a heat bulb 100w which isnt the red its a normal daytime bulb.. at night all lights are off and temp doesnt go below 65... i am planning on getting...

Thanks, I am going to get a che in a couple weeks, but for now just a regular heat lamp, I am going to mount it to my "Roof" and its on a dimmer so i should be able to control temps but just wanted to make that that 13inches wasn't too close

Hi everyone, I am building my indoor tortoise enclosure and need some serious help. My frame and wall measurements got mixed up and all wrong so i am trying to make it work with the wood I have... But how far do my uv and heat have to be away from the bottom/tortoise? Is 13 inches away...

Ok thanks everyone i am for sure doing tiles but i am still curious to know if the silicone is safe to use with tortoises?? They wouldnt try to chew it would they and woukd it withstand the heat and humidity??

All my wood has been painted with a watersealent so because of this would I be okay to just use the tiles and no silicone or should i do the silicone just in case? If so, is this safe for my torty???

Great everyone, i will probably do the linoleum tiles maybe pond liner if its cheaper... but for now tiles is the plan, so what about the silicone? [hr] Is the silicone for inbetween even neccessary? And also how would i put the tiles down, with glue or the sticky stuff they already have on them?

Hi everyone, I am slowly putting together my closed indoor closure for my baby red foot.. I have been tossing around ideas for my floor: So what I am doing so far I have a coffee table I bought and am going to use wood glue and glue down a platform that is painted with waterproof paint which...

I haven't heard many good things about tomatoes but I think I will end up using some bananas :) [hr] Just also curious if the reptivite I have is okay to be using or should I get some sort of calcium powder?? I was thinking I will use the reptivite for now and when I start feeding him some...

This is jsut basic guidelines i am going to hopefully to as big of a variety of possible :) is everything else okay?? including my future protein schedule? (Still researching more protein ideas)

Hi everyone, after a week of research or so from various forum readings and research on turtletary (my main source) and all the other recommended sources I have finally put together my diet plan for my baby red foot 4 month old Captain. Here is the diet plan, if you think I should add/change...

awesome thanks, was just curious to know if anyone had used the sico kind before

Hi dudes, i am beginning my closed enclosure and bought all my supplies (will make a thread with progress pics) but wanted to double check the safety of the water sealent paint i got from rona the girl said its the safest they had and shouldnt be harmful, less than 100 voc i think so she said...