Need help. Tortoise will not eat.

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Thank you. Bad news or not I appreciate the help. I am using a coil uv light. I will get rid of it. Is a uvb bulb acceptable for them? I wasn’t awake or the humidity. He’s been in that enclosure for about 5 years. Can you suggest something more fitting?
I would use an 18" T5 strip florescent like this.
Mine came from Big Al's pet center online.
LLL REPTILES also Carrie's them.
About $50 complete.
For humidity I'd place him in the biggest plastic tote I could find at a hardware store or Walmart. It doesn't need to be too deep. Just wide and long. Then I'd dump in some bark like you have and pour a little water on top of it. Not enough to soak it. Just for humidity.
For heat, I'd use a CHE or two.
You want over 70% humidity
80 to 86 degrees
No bright lights.
12 hours of light. 12 hours of dark.
I dont keep any Redfoot indoors. But plenty of other keepers do.
@Toddrickfl1 would be better to ask about that.
 

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Since he is 5 years old you can back off the humidity a little. He doesn't need the super high humidity a Hatchling would need. It's going to pretty costly to build a closed chamber for an adult. If it were me I'd create a closed humidity chamber, inside the enclosure. Like a humid hide. Maybe get a large plastic tote and cut a hole in the side and place it inside the hide your Tortoise Table already has and pack it with moist substrate.
 

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If our Redfoot is anything to go by, fresh ripe figs are a real treat, and they're just coming in to season. They're not the same species as the ones they munch on in the wild, but he doesn't seem to mind. I think we went through close to 2lbs. (1 fig a day) this spring.
 

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