Recently, the temperatures have been drooping a little, and I've consistently registered 60ºF room temperature over the past week.
So this has got me wondering: how cold can it get inside the enclosure? My tort is about 4 months old, and I don't want him to hibernate.
I talked about this with a local PetShop owner (a reptile shop) and he sold me this wired cable that they're using on all the enclosures (they have Russians, Leopards, Stars, 1 Box turtle, Bell's Hingeback Tortoises, Home's Hingeback Tortoise...). I bought it with the guarantee of returning it next week if I'm not "comfortable" with it. Here's a link to a site that sells these: http://www.mercadosite.com/item.php?id=45841&lan=EN
You're supposed to bury it under the substrate so it distributes heat across the enclosure. Hermanni are natural diggers, so this is something I'm really reluctant to use... also it would most certainly dry out my substrate...
Do you guys do anything about night temps at all? And should I just return this cable? Thanks.
So this has got me wondering: how cold can it get inside the enclosure? My tort is about 4 months old, and I don't want him to hibernate.
I talked about this with a local PetShop owner (a reptile shop) and he sold me this wired cable that they're using on all the enclosures (they have Russians, Leopards, Stars, 1 Box turtle, Bell's Hingeback Tortoises, Home's Hingeback Tortoise...). I bought it with the guarantee of returning it next week if I'm not "comfortable" with it. Here's a link to a site that sells these: http://www.mercadosite.com/item.php?id=45841&lan=EN
You're supposed to bury it under the substrate so it distributes heat across the enclosure. Hermanni are natural diggers, so this is something I'm really reluctant to use... also it would most certainly dry out my substrate...
Do you guys do anything about night temps at all? And should I just return this cable? Thanks.