Finished Decorating

[Jessicap]

Okay here is the almost finished enclosure... just waiting for the plants to have a chance to grow and need to put the plexi glass doors in, get the heat emitters and fill the pond. Want to make sure all fumes are gone. The linolium still is giving off somewhat of an odor.

Forest side with a pond and waterfall in the corner:

meadow side with hide, planted weeds/flowers and grass:

warm/moist/dark hide:

and a couple pictures of Sid for sizing (he is sitting on his feeding area):

suggestions welcomed. Want to get it right before putting him in! Have already added a couple worms but waiting for the front doors before adding the roly-poly's and millipides (don't want them getting out too easily . lol)

 

[coreyc]

Great job looks awesome your tort's are going to love it

 

[Yvonne G]

Whow! That's very nice. I'm sure he's going to love it.

 

[dmarcus]

Very good job, looks awesome...Tortoise heaven...

 

[OllieInAZ]

Nice work .. very impressive!

 

[Jessicap]

Thanks! I had alot of fun building it and decorating it. Now I am looking at building an outside enclosure... lol.

 

[terryo]

Jessica your vivarium is so great and I love, love , love that waterfall. A word of caution....I put about 10 pill bugs in Solo's enclosure, and in a few months I had to change the substrate as the viv was over-run with them. I thought she would eat them because Pio ate anything that moved, but she never ate them and they took over the whole viv. They were even in her hide and when I saw a few crawling on her, and she was rubbing her eye, that's when I changed the substrate. In the boxies vivarium, I keep adding them as they will dig all over the place to get them. I didn't put any in Pio's viv as she's so big now and eats all her food and never leaves any, so I wouldn't need them. I know she wouldn't eat the pill bugs and they would just multiply. Just saying what happened to me.

 

[RianSeeking]

Lovely work, Jessica!

 

[ALDABRAMAN]

Looks great, you did a wonderful job!

 

[TebowHammer]

Excellent job, Jessica! Looks great!

 

[Robert]

Really cool. Nice job!

 

[DaveTheDadHaileeTheDaughter]

That is outstanding !!!!!! I'd love to see some video of the waterfall setup whe you have it all going, excellent job !!!!!!! Jessicap !!!!!!

 

[Jacob]

Looks Great, Your litttle guy is gunna love it!

 

[Isa]

Very Very nice, I really like it You did a very good job!

 

[Tom]

Wow. That's an elaborate set-up. Looks fantastic.

 

[Paige Lewis]

The enclosure looks amazing, he is going to love it!

 

[Jessicap]

Thanks everyone. I figure living in the North, Sid will need to be inside most of the time so wanted it to be as close to outside as possible.

Terry thanks for the info. I put a couple roly-polys and millipides in his current enclosure to see how it goes. I was also thinking of getting a green anole to put in with him to help keep the bug populations down. If anyone knows what eats those little wood lice I could use suggestions on keeping them to a minimum, would an anole eat them? And I am using the bugs and worms more for Poo control than food... my hermit crabs help with the food.