lovebugaphid
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What are you using to measure temp/humidity inside the enclosure?
Digital reader or mechanical dial?
Mechanical dials can be very inaccurate.
Dual Digital thermo/humidistat, $15 at home depot.
Infrared gun $30. This allows you to know exact torts temp. You will be able to compare torts temp. while its active outside to what its like inside.
How high of the ground is the MVB? Too low will drive the tort to hide. Too high will result in low UVB levels. MVBs are known to be defective or fail prematurely. Its a good idea to invest into UVB meter 6.2 or 6.5 in cold climate where artificial UVB is needed much of the year, to measure the UVB output of the bulbs.
Can you post a photo of habitat?
seeing that the difference in the tort's behavior from inside to outside is a COMPLETE change, it's got to be my enclosure set up. I'm just not sure what it is.
our set up is in a large exo terra terrarium low. we have two digital thermometers, one of those dual temp/humidity dial things, and a infrared temp gun. what is a digital thermo/humidistat? would u mind sending me a link pls? we also have a 100 watt UVA/UVB bulb (NOT coiled) that we keep on during daylight hours & turn off at night. it sits about 12 inches above the substrate. our substrate is a mix of cypress mulch & organic soil. we have a 150 watt CHE as well. we keep temps approximately between 80F-90F with a basking area around 104F. we also have a reptifogger and have slowly been increasing humidity back up to 80%. we have water & cuttlebone available at all times & offer the little guy tortoise grass pellets, mazuri, wheatgrass, & spring mix, but I haven't seen him/her eat any of it. I think that's it? pls let me know i missed something