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Hey Everyone,
I thought I would post a picture for both my tortoise/turtle enclosures so people can recommend changes, or see something they like themselves to add to their enclosure. If you see something that you don't like please do tell me, I didn't join the forum so that people wouldn't tell me what they truly think at the risk of hurting my feelings. So first of is my russian tortoise indoor enclosure (Weather will not permit a picture of the outside enclosure yet). The substrate is 100% playsand. I know people are going to be really bothered by this, my question is why? She has never been impacted in the 8 years that I have kept her on sand, and that seems to be the biggest worry. She eats from stone slabs which keeps her beak grinded down and she does eat some sand kernels when they are stuck to the leaves. if the other worry is humidity, I give her two 20min baths a week so that her skin doesn't dry out. I tried dirt before but it dried out really quickly and was very dusty compared to the sand. Anyways here is the picture
Next up is my eastern box turtle enclosure. She is on eco earth alone (some moss in there but not mixed in the substrate). I really like the hill I designed over the top of her two hides. The hides are dug in a liitle into the substrate allowing her to get the burrowing feeling while not completely rearranging the terrarium.
So tell me your thoughts and please be honest
I thought I would post a picture for both my tortoise/turtle enclosures so people can recommend changes, or see something they like themselves to add to their enclosure. If you see something that you don't like please do tell me, I didn't join the forum so that people wouldn't tell me what they truly think at the risk of hurting my feelings. So first of is my russian tortoise indoor enclosure (Weather will not permit a picture of the outside enclosure yet). The substrate is 100% playsand. I know people are going to be really bothered by this, my question is why? She has never been impacted in the 8 years that I have kept her on sand, and that seems to be the biggest worry. She eats from stone slabs which keeps her beak grinded down and she does eat some sand kernels when they are stuck to the leaves. if the other worry is humidity, I give her two 20min baths a week so that her skin doesn't dry out. I tried dirt before but it dried out really quickly and was very dusty compared to the sand. Anyways here is the picture
Next up is my eastern box turtle enclosure. She is on eco earth alone (some moss in there but not mixed in the substrate). I really like the hill I designed over the top of her two hides. The hides are dug in a liitle into the substrate allowing her to get the burrowing feeling while not completely rearranging the terrarium.
So tell me your thoughts and please be honest