This might be a stupid question but here goes anyway. We are finalizing our outdoor enclosure ideas for our Russian. We are planning on an enclosed house that latches, that opens to a welded wire cage with additional access to an open area with taller plants and more room to roam for when he can...
I see so many amazing tortoise habitats that are just wide open. Are these for larger species? Or are they not really vulnerable to predators? We are starting to build an outdoor enclosure for our Russian and I feel like we need to have him covered. If a dog will go after a tortoise, wouldn't a...
Like I said, not ideal, but we are trying to get there! We are actually having the trees trimmed before we start this project so hopefully we will find a sunnier spot. Plan B will be to tear out the planter and move it to a sunnier part of the yard, but I was hoping to not have to reinvent the...
We definitely don't just let him run loose. We have a couple of large planters like that that he runs around in. He can't climb out. It's just not safe because it's uncovered. Temperatures up to 100 degrees most days in the summer but about 20 degrees cooler in the shade.
I'll look that over...
I will confess up front to not having an ideal setup for our tortoise, but we are trying to improve so please reserve judgment! He has a UV light on his indoor enclosure, and we bring him outside regularly, but don't have a permanent habitat so we have to just watch him the whole time. That's...