I have been tweaking with my sulcata barn and his basking daylight temperature is about 120 degrees. Is this too high? I currently have a 250 watt light in there.
At night time, I have a 250 watt red light. I *just* put in a stanfield heat matt and would like to discontinue the night lamp...
I got a sulcata tortoise a few months ago and I just recently got a stanfield heat mat to heat his rubbermaid storage shed. I plugged it in last night and the pad stayed fairly warm, but is underbelly heat sufficient? How to you keep track of the temperature? I was using a thermometer with a...
So someone said my sulcata looked like he needed a soak. I put in a water hole thing for him which he has not used at all. So, should I soak him forcibly? I tried putting him IN his water hole and he hated it and promptly crawled away.
So should I put him in a tub with warm water (like 70...
I am thinking about buying a stanfield mat to heat my tortoises house. I currently have a whole bunch of hay in there for him to bury himself in. Do tortoises NEED hay to bury in? Or is it safer to just have the pad without bedding?
He is a sulcata
I have a 60 pound male sulcata I rescued from an animal shelter; he was a stray. I had found a home for him, but after a year they returned him and he is currently living with me and I would like to find a more suitable PERMANENT home for him but will keep him as long as it takes to do so...
I am looking at the Herpstat thermostats and the Helix DBS 1000.
I just want something to maintain my tortoises shed at the right temperature, but not *too* high as I want it to be fairly energy efficient.
Do these fancy thermostats work well, or am I better off just buying a cheap...
Hello,
I am new and this is my first post! Tomorrow I am picking up a ~60# sulcata. I am finding that there isn't really a whole lot of information about keeping large sulcatas. Most information I've found is just about general tortoises who live in small terrariums :)
Does anyone out...