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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...

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...

I came across a huge RES at work today. The carapace is at least 12" long. She made a loud splash when she dove in the water!

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...

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...

Hello, all! My three Desert Tortoise babies (hatched September 2018) are ready for bigger and better accommodations. I searched all over the interwebs for a prefab enclosure that would work in the space I have. Nothing fit the bill or the budget, so I've decided to try to build one myself. I...

I took advantage of LLL Reptile's Black Friday sale and bought a thermostat. No more worrying that I'm cooking my girls! My biggest question is - which end of the enclosure should I put the probe in? The cool end or the basking end? The enclosure is 24"w × 36"l × 12"h.

Is there a percent weight gain range that I should be trying to meet for my three desert tortoises? I'm more experienced raising birds, which grow much faster than tortoises, and always use a min - max range of how much weight they should be gaining per day. I'm only weighing the tortoises once...

Is anyone aware if it's safe for Desert Tortoises to eat the flowers from Christmas and Thanksgiving Cactus (Schlumbergera truncata & bridgesii)? I currently have my tortoise enclosure on my patio, right under a Thanksgiving cactus that is full of buds and should bloom right in time to live up...

I have 3 hatchling Mojave Desert Tortoises that I'm trying to keep entertained and awake through the winter. I have them on a mixture of coco coir, reptibark, and on the basking end Zoo Med Excavator Clay. They really love the clay, but it seems like it might be drying them out. Perhaps I...