4’x8’ enclosure ideas!
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Will they used indoors or outside? If indoors or hard surfaces outside you could put caster wheels underneath. If you used 1 by wood and then laminate the inside with the thinnest pvc. That might hold the price down.
I am just babbling I didn't do any research.
I am just babbling I didn't do any research.
Tony the Tort42
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Just a thought, maybe make a wood box, then buy a plastic tarp material and line all surfaces that will get wet. That's my plan for my next enclosure.
Will it stay indoors?
Try using greenhouse tents! They’re pretty tall, but they’re perfectly enclosed and ready to have heating hung from the top.
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Very large (80x48x48 in.) greenhouse enclosure
I found this gem on TeguTalk today- https://tegutalk.com/index.php?threads/Grow-tent-enclosure---with-progress-photos%21.19923/ I would imagine that this would be very useful for growing Sulcatas or other humid tortoises, or even a permanent enclosure for the smaller species. It’s easy to set...
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Tony the Tort42
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Nope. It will go outside, but it may be inside for a bit.
If you put plastic down you will have to make some drain holes or you will have a swimming pool. Can you use the ground you have and just build walls?
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thats actually my plan. For indoors it would it would have a botum, but outside the bottom would be grass
nooooot quite what i meant by sealed hahaha, i more meant closed chamber style. sealing i already have covered and its probably gonna be built out of just PVC so im not worried about waterproofness
Tony the Tort42
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I would make the base box, then build a pvc pipe frame above it. I would then drape a tarp over that, to make a green house style enclosure. Is this for babies? Also, Technocheese's suggestion would work, but you would have to drill holes for heat lamp cables and such. I would also go for some insulation.
Oh ok. Those greenhouses Technocheese talked about are nice.
this is kinda what we have now but on a smaller scale (6’x3’) this will be for a yearling sulcata, and a sub adult redfoot (two separate enclosures) this is what theyre both in now (4 month old sulc) and also, two of the same enclosures.
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I like the effort. And it looks like it could be successful, too.
Keeping tortoises indoors can be challenging. Especially keeping them indoors in a larger enclosure.
Keeping tortoises indoors can be challenging. Especially keeping them indoors in a larger enclosure.
Tony the Tort42
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Very nice enclosure. Kinda what I have planned, i'm going to start making it this evening.
Yeah, I can't wait till my tort can graze all day (or as much as he wants). What size would you grow them too before they are safe outside?
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Mine go outside as soon as the umbilical scar heals up. I've actually hatched two outdoors that have never even come inside.
You'd have to have no predators and a secure pen inside a secure yard with the perfect climate to do the same.
My situation, enclosure and my climate make this possible.
I don't like it sounding like I'm some sort of Redfoot expert.
Truth is, I'm very successful because I live where I live.
I admire the results that some of you have in less hospitable situations. And the work that you do to try to duplicate the environment.
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At the moment, I think my yard gets too hot for him. Florida is a great place for torts...
