saginawhxc
Well-Known Member
Okay I have been meaning to ask this for weeks now, but I have been so insanely busy.
Somewhere about a month ago I finally upgraded Winchester's table.
When I rescued him he was in a 2'x3' table with dry wood chips for substrate and no hide. He spent the better part of the first month and a half living mostly outside and coming in on the colder nights and staying in his old table (with an added hide). I had planned on building him a better set up right from the get go, but fall is always so busy for me and he seemed content outside in a set up where he had access to about 40 square feet. Anyways I built this about a month ago now. Well over half of it is salvaged wood from a construction site I'm on. Not counting the hide I bet I have less than $15 into it. The hide cost about $25 to make.
The hide (lower left corner) is built out of pvc trim and I gave it a hinged top so I could fasten the hide into place semi permanently but still have easy access to remove him if needed.
It is 6'x3'. I would have liked to go bigger, but this is what i have to work with till we get in the new house. It has a two inch lip running around the entire thing, and one end is covered by the printer because that was the compromise I reached with the girlfriend for taking away office space for another tortoise table.
He used his pvc hide constantly the first two weeks or so, but now seem to prefers the end underneath the printer.
The substrate is 50/50 dug up earth from my back yard and coco coir.. I have lived here for eight years and have never used any chemicals on my lawn so I figure that to be fairly safe. I might have added more than 50% dirt, because it certainly looks like more dirt than coir, but I was aiming for a 50/50 mix and it should be close.
Liner is a double layer of 6 mil plastic stapled into place at the top.
Light is a mvb and basking spot is 100f.
I have a seed mix from tortoise supply starting to grow just now. I just planted that a few days ago. I also planted some dandelions.
Somewhere about a month ago I finally upgraded Winchester's table.
When I rescued him he was in a 2'x3' table with dry wood chips for substrate and no hide. He spent the better part of the first month and a half living mostly outside and coming in on the colder nights and staying in his old table (with an added hide). I had planned on building him a better set up right from the get go, but fall is always so busy for me and he seemed content outside in a set up where he had access to about 40 square feet. Anyways I built this about a month ago now. Well over half of it is salvaged wood from a construction site I'm on. Not counting the hide I bet I have less than $15 into it. The hide cost about $25 to make.
The hide (lower left corner) is built out of pvc trim and I gave it a hinged top so I could fasten the hide into place semi permanently but still have easy access to remove him if needed.
It is 6'x3'. I would have liked to go bigger, but this is what i have to work with till we get in the new house. It has a two inch lip running around the entire thing, and one end is covered by the printer because that was the compromise I reached with the girlfriend for taking away office space for another tortoise table.
He used his pvc hide constantly the first two weeks or so, but now seem to prefers the end underneath the printer.
The substrate is 50/50 dug up earth from my back yard and coco coir.. I have lived here for eight years and have never used any chemicals on my lawn so I figure that to be fairly safe. I might have added more than 50% dirt, because it certainly looks like more dirt than coir, but I was aiming for a 50/50 mix and it should be close.
Liner is a double layer of 6 mil plastic stapled into place at the top.
Light is a mvb and basking spot is 100f.
I have a seed mix from tortoise supply starting to grow just now. I just planted that a few days ago. I also planted some dandelions.