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  1. Joe Stevens

    Outdoor Enclosure/Night Box for 4 ft. Sulcata Tortoise

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

    Outdoor Enclosure/Night Box for 4 ft. Sulcata Tortoise

    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?
  3. Joe Stevens

    Outdoor Enclosure/Night Box for 4 ft. Sulcata Tortoise

    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...
  4. Joe Stevens

    Outdoor Enclosure/Night Box for 4 ft. Sulcata Tortoise

    Looks great! Thank you :)
  5. Joe Stevens

    Outdoor Enclosure/Night Box for 4 ft. Sulcata Tortoise

    It does, thank you! Would you mind sending a picture?
  6. Joe Stevens

    Outdoor Enclosure/Night Box for 4 ft. Sulcata Tortoise

    Ok I'll have a look thank you
  7. Joe Stevens

    Outdoor Enclosure/Night Box for 4 ft. Sulcata Tortoise

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

    Outdoor Enclosure/Night Box for 4 ft. Sulcata Tortoise

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

    Outdoor Enclosure/Night Box for 4 ft. Sulcata Tortoise

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

    Outdoor Enclosure/Night Box for 4 ft. Sulcata Tortoise

    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?
  11. Joe Stevens

    Outdoor Enclosure/Night Box for 4 ft. Sulcata Tortoise

    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...
  12. Joe Stevens

    Outdoor Enclosure/Night Box for 4 ft. Sulcata Tortoise

    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...
  13. Joe Stevens

    Outdoor Enclosure/Night Box for 4 ft. Sulcata Tortoise

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

    Outdoor Enclosure/Night Box for 4 ft. Sulcata Tortoise

    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...
  15. Joe Stevens

    Outdoor Enclosure/Night Box for 4 ft. Sulcata Tortoise

    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...
  16. Joe Stevens

    Weird "Floaters" in Greek's Shell

    Thank you so much! I'm very much less worried now. Both of you have a nice day!
  17. Joe Stevens

    Weird "Floaters" in Greek's Shell

    Hi all, I was looking over my 7ish year old Greek tortoise's shell and found some weird white line things. He's asleep right now so I wouldn't really be able to get a decent photo, but does anyone know if worms in the shell are anything to worry about? He lives inside so I don't know if he...
  18. Joe Stevens

    Eyes going puffy and red

    Ok I usually just take him out but he has a bigger area around the house, his house is big enough thanks so some people on here helping me decide the proper size. I’ll keep him in his home now that I know this!
  19. Joe Stevens

    Eyes going puffy and red

    Yes one of them looks like that it is the one of my two lights, the one that is only on during the day. Would I need to replace or do tortoises not really need it?
  20. Joe Stevens

    Eyes going puffy and red

    It was marketed as a “reptile bulb” if it could still be a compact CFL how would I check
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