My new table

[Lynn1957]

Well this is my new table for my Hermanns. It’s 9x3 feet and has some storage underneath as well.
Ive heated it with 3 150 CHE’s and then his basking light.

 

[TechnoCheese]

Wow, looks great!

 

[Lynn1957]

Wow, looks great!

Thank you!

 

[Lynn1957]

Thought I’d post a few more pics now that it’s all done.

 

[Markw84]

Is that purple light one you thought would be good for UV? If so - that is the wrong type of light.

 

[Lynn1957]

Is that purple light one you thought would be good for UV? If so - that is the wrong type of light.

No that one is a grow light in there for the plants.

 

[Lynn1957]

No, it’s a grown light for the plants.

 

[Blackdog1714]

View attachment 261234 View attachment 261235 View attachment 261236 Thought I’d post a few more pics now that it’s all done.

Awesome! Very luck tortoise

 

[Maro2Bear]

Wow - very nice!

 

[Yvonne G]

Oh man. . . that is so nice!

 

[Cheryl Hills]

Can that grow light cause a tort to eat its substrate. Just saying because I know the red ones will.

 

[Lynn1957]

Oh man. . . that is so nice!

Thank you!

 

[Lynn1957]

Can that grow light cause a tort to eat its substrate. Just saying because I know the red ones will.

Don’t see why it would?

 

[Lynn1957]

Wow - very nice!

Thank yoi

 

[JoesMum]

Don’t see why it would?

Unfortunately, tortoises can lack intelligence when it comes to food. They have excellent colour vision and associate coloured items with sweet foods and will try to eat them. I have watched my own tortoise try to eat red circles printed on a newspaper [emoji849]

We regularly see tortoises in TFO that have eaten substrate or other decor coloured by red or purple lamps and substrate can block the gut.

We recommend "white" lighting only by day and complete darkness at night. Supplementary heat should be from a Ceramic Heat Emitter.

 

[Blackdog1714]

Unfortunately, tortoises can lack intelligence when it comes to food. They have excellent colour vision and associate coloured items with sweet foods and will try to eat them. I have watched my own tortoise try to eat red circles printed on a newspaper [emoji849]

We regularly see tortoises in TFO that have eaten substrate or other decor coloured by red or purple lamps and substrate can block the gut.

We recommend "white" lighting only by day and complete darkness at night. Supplementary heat should be from a Ceramic Heat Emitter.

I use a 6000K white light and my plants are growing fine

 

[Lynn1957]

I use a 6000K white light and my plants are growing fine

 

[Lynn1957]

Thanks!! Okay its gone...I had no idea.
I will put the white 6500k back in.
And you agree with digging him out every morning and giving him his soak and food but leaving him buried the rest of the time?

 

[Yvonne G]

I dig everyone out every morning and soak them while I prepare the food, then place them in front of the food.

 

[Lynn1957]

I dig everyone out every morning and soak them while I prepare the food, then place them in front of the food.

Yes thanks...but then do you let them stay buried the rest of the day and night?