Jhwells46
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Hey everyone! My name is Julia and about three months ago I purchased a one year old Leopard Tortoise and her name is Tippy. I have fiddled around with her enclosure a lot, and I think I've finally nailed it. Her habitat is a 6'x2' shoe rack that I repurposed and sits over a massive heat vent so no matter what I know that her table is always heated to at least 75 degrees ambient temperature. I have a UVB/heat bulb that heats her hot/humid side and a low watt night time bulb over her water dish to keep it warm for her. Her substrate is a mixture of fine and coarse coconut coir and she has a lot of moist sphagnum moss to maintain her humidity throughout the table since it's so hard to maintain with an open table. Her hot humid hide is repurposed door screen with a layer of plastic wrap, which has worked great so far. There's also a mini garden of wandering jew, hens and chicks, aloe, mallow, fescue and watercress in a sunken planter in her hot side which also helps maintain humidity and she loves to hide in the plants! She has another garden on her cooler side with more fescue, garden sage, nasturtium, and soon to be cat grass (waiting to sprout). I like the idea of her being able to forage for some snacks Her cool hide is a rice steamer with Spanish/sphagnum mix which I like to call her "pagoda". She has been running around happy as can be all day and I'm really excited about it! Experts, how did I do??
Oh she also has some yard onions in one of her gardens, which I understood to be just fine for them to eat. Please correct me if that's wrong. Thanks!
Oh she also has some yard onions in one of her gardens, which I understood to be just fine for them to eat. Please correct me if that's wrong. Thanks!
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