Recent content by Joe Stevens

Will do once everything arrives (it’s looking that the whole kit will come together come Sunday).

Thank you! I have some old rugs that I could cover with the tarp, would that work? Also should I use the card board or skip it?

While I appreicate Tom's carpentry expertise, his method does seem a bit prohibitive for me in terms of cost and time, so I think I'm going to go with this method for now. Hopefully one day I will be able to treat Max to the kingly fare of Tom's tortoises. I'm mainly writing this post to make...

Looks great! Thank you :)

It does, thank you! Would you mind sending a picture?

Ok I'll have a look thank you

Ok, anybody have any ideas on where to look to hire people? I'm not really sure where to look

I may have to take you up on your offer. How much would you be willing to do it for?

Perhaps... Do you have an estimate on how much all the materials would cost?

I'm not very good at carpentry, so I don't think I'd be able to do something of that magnitude. I found this link (https://startortoises.net/housingouts-houses.html) about modifying a wodden dog house. Would that a be a good idea?

Thank you for the offer! I’m up in LA county so I’d like to use this one if at all possible. I have some spare heat lamps and bulbs but I’m not quite sure how I’d attach them. His house is a big one of these if it helps...

Ok, how would I go about doing that? Theoretically I could bring him in the house, but he’s usually asleep before it gets dark and he’s quite difficult to pick up. Right now he’s got a house but it’s just made of plastic and nothing else. Is it as simple as sticking some heat pads in there? I...

His burrow only goes like 3 or 4 inches since thats how much ground there is before it reaches cement.

This will be a pretty long message but bear with me. In terms of his story, we saw someone had posted online that they didn't want their tortoise anymore, so we took him in. They had told us that they just gave him a doghouse to sleep in and that we wouldn't need anything besides that and...

Hi All! I have a four foot sulcata tortoise that lives in my backyard in Southern California. The weather is warm for the most part, but sometimes I worry for him on colder days/nights (sometimes it gets less than 10 degress celsius). Am I being paranoid? Most posts I've seen say that you...