So I have been struggling with the conditions of my red footed tortoise table for the entire week! It's really taxing on me..... I had my lights inadequately temporarily taped up to my while I calibrated the temps. But while I had my back turned, the tape came loose and my light descended 2 1/2" inches down!!!!! I took Arty's temp and she was 98 degrees. I am so glad that hygrometer was actually taking readings that were too high!!! I soaked her and she never acted aberrant. I feel confident now that nothing bad happened to her internal temp.
I got my digital temp gun and started taking the temps, but my hygrometer seems off by 2 + degrees too high....
So my temps have been too low then....
Her table is an open topped encloser that runs around 2 of the walls of the tortoise room.
I just read advice some other members received regarding adding a cheap shower curtain to create an enclosed container . My open topped encloser is extremely hard to keep the temps in the healthy range. I'm sad. I added the shower curtain to one of the sides , and most of the other side so that the heat lamp could still hang down.
Any advice? Pics? Its soooooooo unsightly. My selfish human greed hates it.
(I'll add some pics here shortly.)
I got my digital temp gun and started taking the temps, but my hygrometer seems off by 2 + degrees too high....
So my temps have been too low then....
Her table is an open topped encloser that runs around 2 of the walls of the tortoise room.
I just read advice some other members received regarding adding a cheap shower curtain to create an enclosed container . My open topped encloser is extremely hard to keep the temps in the healthy range. I'm sad. I added the shower curtain to one of the sides , and most of the other side so that the heat lamp could still hang down.
Any advice? Pics? Its soooooooo unsightly. My selfish human greed hates it.
(I'll add some pics here shortly.)