Hi everybody! I just found this website and I have a question for Southern California DT owners. I have two female DTs I adopted from the palm desert chapter a few months ago. They are doing great and were spending more and more time in their borrows until it started to rain and I had to pull them out because the burrows were getting too humid and I did not want the the torts to get sick. I did some reading and found that some people build hibernation houses for their torts so that is what I did. Unfortunately, the temperature just does NOT seem to get cold enough for them to go in full hibernation and they are getting out of the house I built and they roam the backyard. My question is, if the temps do not get cold enough for them to hibernate, what do I do? Is it okay? Am I risking them getting sick?
Here are a couple of pics of the torts and the house (which I moved to a shaded area of the house now where no sunlight hits it directly all day).
Thanks.
Here are a couple of pics of the torts and the house (which I moved to a shaded area of the house now where no sunlight hits it directly all day).
Thanks.
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