The humidity is around 85% at the end enclosure, decreasing the closer you get to under the lamp, which is around 40%. I have given them ab extra watar bowl under the lamp to increase humidity through evaporation. The enclosure get misted a couple of times a day.
Update, the tortoise is still VERY fond of digging and nipping at the cypress bedding, I am however not sure if he actually eats it. Does anybody have any advice or recommendations?
Hello tortoise gurus!
I just seperated my two tortoises and rehoused them but I have run into a problem of sorts? I just added a layer of cypress mulch and now one of my tortoises is just going into his hide and keeps digging and eating a bit of the bedding, is this dangerous for him? The other...
TeamZissou: I am an electrician so i had modified the desk lamp so it wouldn't be a fire hazard even with a 150 watt bulb ;)
Zovick: I am very relieved to hear that. Luckily both the tortoise and I should have quite a few years left to recover :)
Update couple days after rehousing my tortoises into seperate enclosures and adjusting the humidity.
My Little tortoise seems to be more energetic than before so I hope he will get better. Is there any chance he will regrow the scales on his legs?
They are in the same enclosure, but i am currently building a new one where they are seperated. The humidity ranges from 40-60% at day and rises to 80% at night. Temps are an ambient 22C with a basking spot of 35C. Current table are glass walls with blacked lining. The new one will be full wood
Hello guys
I have a couple of hermanns tortoises. But the younger of the two has started shedding his scales quite a lot. It started just over a week ago with him losing a couple of the scales on his head. It has progressed to him shedding some of the larger scales on his legs, my older...