Russian tortoise table
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I am not sure. If you can make sight barriers, so he can't see from end to end. A full grown adult, I am thinking this wouldn't be wide enough. Smaller though, maybe.
That seems a bit small even for a baby - the bigger the floor space the better. They are wandering animals so need as much space as you can give them. I have seen minimums of 4 ft x 8 ft recommended.
I don't keep Russians (or any other Testudo sp. for that matter) but I'm surprised by this. 2'x11' wouldn't be enough floor space for a single baby Russian? 22sqft doesn't sound like a lot for an adult, but for a hatchling-subadult it still wouldn't be sufficient? Even with lots of sight barriers? Are Russians mostly perimeter walkers or interior walkers?
I'd like it just a little wider, but 2x11' would be okay. Not perfect, but good enough. That is 22 square feet of floor space vs. 32 square feet in a 4x8' enclosure. Certainly better than a 40 gallon aquarium!
LOL I do apologise - my mistake - I read it as 11" (inches!!)
Must have been seeing double!!
Is that the measurements of the space you have available for the enclosure? 3 foot wide would be better but like Jodie said if you have site barriers that will definitely help. 2 feet tall is Nice because you can make a varied terrain. Hills and tunnels etc.
It's one of the spaces I could have I'm just tossing around ideas in my head and around here I could do 4x8 also I might even look into making it directly on the ground but don't know how I'll cover it from the dang cats if I did it on the ground it'd be more of an L shape but still tossing ideas around
An L shape has built-in site barriers so that is nice. My outdoor enclosure is an L shape. Somebody asked if Russians are perimeter walkers or walk more in the middle, my Russian tends to walk along the walls so 11 foot long walls would be good. I think they do better with rectangle versus square shaped enclosures. At least as far as I've noticed with mine she does not tend to walk right in the middle much at all. If you think your tortoises walking the perimeter too much you can put large obstacles in the way to make them go around and change their path.
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I think it's nice for tortoises to have a cage big width and length wise. Russians are very active and that sounds a bit small.
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Mine isn't very big it's only about 3ft X 1 and a half but my tortoise is tiny and it's only a temporary one as the tort grows my enclosure will how big is your tortoise?
My Russians live outside year round. Much easier than trying to house them indoors. When it starts to get cold they hibernate.
