chuck21570
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hi everyone. My son’s tortoise is finally spending most of his day not buried, which is good. But now I have a different concern.
The tortoise spent a lot of time basking today, and it could be that I just never looked close enough at the underside of his tortoise, but his shell looks blacker to me than I remember. Does this look normal? Did he / she get underside of shell burnt from basking on the slate?
I put a stronger bulb in today, 75 watt, because the temperature gauge kept reading high 80’s with the 50 watt bulb. Maybe his shell always looked like this and I am just paranoid. But I am worried the temperature gauge was just not working, and the 50 watt bulb was fine, and the 75 is too much.
Any thoughts?
The tortoise spent a lot of time basking today, and it could be that I just never looked close enough at the underside of his tortoise, but his shell looks blacker to me than I remember. Does this look normal? Did he / she get underside of shell burnt from basking on the slate?
I put a stronger bulb in today, 75 watt, because the temperature gauge kept reading high 80’s with the 50 watt bulb. Maybe his shell always looked like this and I am just paranoid. But I am worried the temperature gauge was just not working, and the 50 watt bulb was fine, and the 75 is too much.
Any thoughts?