Waiting for her new enclosure to be finished.... She is taking over the dog bed. I can't wait to have her in her new home. Took the trip to the hardware store through the snow storm. Waited two hours to have wood cut and got it home and realized they cut it too small. Now her enclosure will be...
Has anyone used one of these. I understand i couldn't use this in the hide on the floor because of burrowing, but possibly on the walls and ceiling of the hide?
I suppose it is a sort of a table but it will actually sit on the floor and not have legs. I was thinking plexiglass too. Anything that is heat resistant. Im so scared of my house burning down!
I have a Che that is on 24/7 but is mainly used for her hide at night. I need more heat throughout and my house is so big that I cannot just simply heat a small area with my heat. I may need to find a way to do closed chamber and o just don't know how to do that right now.
I need to know the best way to get a steady ambient temperature without being a closed chamber enclosure. I am looking to build an enclosure that is 6x3.5ft and I need to get a good ambient temperature in that in the best way. I will work on a close chamber, but right now I just need something...
I am up north in Thornton/Brighton. I have tons of space. Im basement is completely open and ideally I would like to create an indoor pen for her down there when it gets snowy like it is now. Im looking for a store that has orchid bark in stock. Not much luck so far. Is this a substrate that...
I order my tortoise food straight from Mazuri. The bigger bag you get the cheaper it is. I have found that buying from them, even just the 30 pound bag is WAY cheaper than going to the commercial pet stores. And it is a recommended food here.
Well, I got up this morning and she was out under her basking lamp and she had already eaten the fresh greens i put in for her last night and also had pooped. I'll be keeping a close eye on her and her plastron. We are in the middle of a pretty bad snow storm so getting to the hardware store may...
Im not sure of her temps. Especially now that she is just moved into this bin. The heat lamp I have is a coil bulb with no light. It stays on 24/7. The uv is not coil. It is a tube inside of the black hood thing. That is on a 12hr timer. Everything was great in her last enclosure till she...
I did get the links and I have read through them. She is eating a good diet. Summer is always better because she gets fresh grass all the time. I am just really struggling with how to get her a good enclosure for her size. The link you provided for a close chamber I just cannot imagine how that...
The tub is brand new. She hasn't even been in that tub for two hours yet. But she is off of the concrete. I will review those tubs. My house is very large (5300 sqft) and I have two separate furnaces. I think I will need to adjust the programming to the furnace that heats the downstairs to make...
http://thepositiveworldofprincesspeachy.blogspot.com/2012/11/signs-of-new-shell-growth-pink-outlines.html?m=1
This seems to indicate that it is normal and healthy she'll growth. Her sore feet are a different story and im sure that has to do with the concrete.
Still no one has answered the question about the pink on her plastron. I don't want to get too far off topic. Her enclosure is something I am working on, but right now I want to know about her shell. What causes this? Is this treatable?
Yes she has a coil heat bulb. (No light) and then a UV light. I understand her enclosure should be much bigger. This is just a temporary enclosure till we build her new one. I need to find a suitable floor for her enclosure that won't rot or mold itself and that she cannot burrow through. That...
This is what I have her in now. Im terribly allergic to Hay and that is why I have tried not to use it too much but now I am so desperate for her to start eating again. I'll need to situate her light and heat lamp. I just hate the cramped area for her. I live in colorado so she can only be...
Ha well I can but right now it will look pretty pathetic because I just took her out and cleaned all the hay out so now it just looks like a ... Well, dog crate. Im going to move her into a whole Rubbermaid container that I am actually purchasing right now. I'll post pics as soon as I get home...
Yes. She is. :( she has some Timothy hay but she digs in it to burrow. The Rubbermaid is where is burrows mainly and that is a sideways container so she isn't actually sleeping or burrowin into the cement but into the plastic container. Outside the plastic container is all cement .