Please can you tell me how old my Tortoise Eric is?

[biochemnerd808]

85 is the very minimum...thank you! I've just discovered that mine hides in temps over 90.
I always knew he was weird...

Are you measuring at 'top of shell' height, or on the floor? If the ground temp under the basking light is 85 degrees F, then it could very likely be just about perfect at top-of-shell height. When setting up a heat lamp, I always put a tortoise-sized rock under it, to measure at ground level and at shell level... so many tortoises end up with the top scutes burned together because of too-hot basking temps. Yay for infrared temp guns!

 

[Charmo]

It's a tube but split into two smaller tubes side by side

 

[Charmo]

I am not sure of the difference in temperature with height but the air temperature above his shell in that area is around 36degrees C

 

[Yellow Turtle01]

Are you measuring at 'top of shell' height, or on the floor? If the ground temp under the basking light is 85 degrees F, then it could very likely be just about perfect at top-of-shell height. When setting up a heat lamp, I always put a tortoise-sized rock under it, to measure at ground level and at shell level... so many tortoises end up with the top scutes burned together because of too-hot basking temps. Yay for infrared temp guns!

Top of the shell when he's relaxed, and his legs aren't 'deployed', so about 4'' upwards. I always make sure my lights are a bit away, an if it's till too hot, 60ws usually do the trick

 

[Charmo]

I think it's around 36-38degrees C