Hey guys! I need some help. My boyfriend and I just recently broke up. He was the one that always helped with Turbo's enclosure. I would come up with ideas and what I wanted, he would brainstorm how to do them/how to make it awesome, and he would do do all the real work while giving me little tasks that made me feel like I was helping. Lol! Well now I am lost without him to help. I'm not completely skillless- I can use a drill (not like super good at it or anything) and I'm not afraid to do some work. I just don't know how to do it unless I'm told. Lol. Idk if I ever posted on here Turbos new enclosure. So here it is. I know it's small. I think 8x8 or 10x10 idk. But where we had his old one was always flooded so half the time he couldn't even walk out of his night box. So I wanted to move it to the highest spot in the yard. It was supposed to just be a basic temporary move but we kept adding more and more permanent stuff. In order to make it higher than ground level and be able to slope it we had to add some more dirt. Except dirt is expensive. So we got a whole truck load of sand for free. But i know sand isnt good to use. So we had to dig a ginormous hole, fill it with sand, and then put the dirt that we dug up on top that. I made him a concrete pond (all by myself!). I dug a deep hole and put a big bucket (ignore all the debris in it) to make the top ground level, and the concrete pond peice goes on top (removable for cleaning). The concrete part has drain holes so when it gets too full of water the water drains into the bucket, which also has drain holes. And the entire enclosure is sloped with the pond being the lowest point. There's been no flooding at all! I am going to redo the concrete peice of the pond to make it a little bigger. But I do not think he'll be spending too long in the enclosure. He has his night box. And also an inderground area. I put a container underground with the lid at ground level so i can open it if needed. I dug a pipe from above ground to in the container. But i am gonna try to replace the pipe with the bigger one this weekend. He loves it under here and hardly ever goes in his warm one for now at least. Even though the enclosure is small it has a top level portion like his old one that he loves going up and sunning on. I never see him pacing or walking around the edge of his enclosure at all like he thinks there's no room. But i do plan on moving him to a bigger area. My only issue with size as of right now is that he doesn't let anything grow. I have some planters with stuff that I can give him but I really want something growing inside his enclosure. I planted some tortoise seed mix in there and blocked off a little section to let it grow before letting him at it. I can't believe how fast he ate it. It didn't last long at all. But it was also I very small section. Now I have tried to just plant them all over and give him lots of other food to eat but it's not working too well. Any ideas on how to increase the plant growth? Or should I just give up? I have been wanting to do a misting system. I have tried looking up how to do it but I'm so lost! Any tips or pointers on anything would be awesome!
