77 is too cold, and your thermostat may be at your eye level. If he is on the floor, it is colder down there since heat rises. If your enclosure is enclosed, the heat from the CHE should help heat up most of it, even if he doesn't sleep directly underneath it.
Yes, when it is so cold in your room the space heater make sense. Sorry for misunderstanding you. You can try to place your tort under the CHE every night when he is still sleeping. Sometimes they must learn where the heat is. After a few days they go by themself to the place where it is warm at night when they know where it is. Torts can learn that.
Check the temp where your tort sleeps and you will know if it is allright.
That is okay. It would be easier to keep the warmth when you could cover your enclosure.
Nathan - You have a baby leopard tortoise there. It has been kept way too dry and is already beginning to pyramid. So it is lucky this little tortoise has now got you to take proper care of it. Please start a new thread and introduce yourself, and ask all the questions you have. Lots of help here with tons of Leopard keepers. Please read this as a nice basis for your questions.
Please read the thread I linked in my reply above. I has all the information there you need including a link to the best foods.
Yes. The only difference is that leopard torts usually go for more weeds and less grass. Baby torts eat very little grass unless it is very young and tender.
TItle says "How to Raise a Healthy Sulcata Or Leopard, Version 2.0"
