This spring I'm moving into the biggest room in my house, it's basically two rooms put together. I also got my parents to agree to allow me to buy an old bookshelf to make a tortoise enclosure for my 5 inch Russian tortoise. The dimensions of the bookshelf will roughly be, 6 feet by 2.5 feet. But my dad also sparked the idea for me to just run a board from one wall to the other in one part of the room creating a 6.7 feet by about 3.3 feet enclosure. The walls of the room would serve as the other walls of the enclosure. I know a lot of people are against this, but in this situation could it work? The room is upstairs so it's always at least 75 F in all of the rooms. My current room is 85 F so the new one will probably be the same. The floor is carpet, so no "cold floors" can happen, and I was planning to put plastic down anyway if I do this. There are two windows. One is an East facing, the other a South facing. I figured that could be good because I could open them to allow sunlight in if my tortoise couldn't be outside that day for some reason. They are newer windows, and I haven't felt any drafts coming out (one window is in the wall that makes the enclosure). I'm not really sure how to do lighting yet, so if this could work I could use some advice on how to manage the lights. I have a 32 inch tube lamp and then a basking bulb.
So would she be better off in the table, or on the floor enclosure because it's bigger? Also a side note, we are also building her a 10ft by 10ft enclosure this spring, so she will be outside.
So would she be better off in the table, or on the floor enclosure because it's bigger? Also a side note, we are also building her a 10ft by 10ft enclosure this spring, so she will be outside.