worried about cold weather for tortoise
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Hibernate your tortoise in a temperature controlled fridge, and monitor the temps carefully.
For your current crisis, move the tortoise into a plastic shoe box with some of whatever substrate is under it right now, and put the shoe box in your fridge. Check the fridge temp first and adjust if needed.
Read this for the current and correct care info:
The Best Way To Raise Any Temperate Species Of Tortoise
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Hibernate your tortoise in a temperature controlled fridge, and monitor the temps carefully.
For your current crisis, move the tortoise into a plastic show box with some of whatever substrate is under it right now, and put the shoe box in your fridge. Check the fridge temp first and adjust if needed.
Read this for the current and correct care info:
The Best Way To Raise Any Temperate Species Of Tortoise
I chose the title of this care sheet very carefully. Are there other ways to raise babies and care for adults? Yes. Yes there are, but those ways are not as good. What follows is the BEST way, according to 30 years of research and experimentation with hundreds of babies of many species. What is...
Hibernate your tortoise in a temperature controlled fridge, and monitor the temps carefully.
For your current crisis, move the tortoise into a plastic show box with some of whatever substrate is under it right now, and put the shoe box in your fridge. Check the fridge temp first and adjust if needed.
Read this for the current and correct care info:
The Best Way To Raise Any Temperate Species Of Tortoise
I chose the title of this care sheet very carefully. Are there other ways to raise babies and care for adults? Yes. Yes there are, but those ways are not as good. What follows is the BEST way, according to 30 years of research and experimentation with hundreds of babies of many species. What is...
Thanks for the advice ill do now
Yes. I prefer cardboard over plastic because the cardboard doesn't accept condensation like the plastic does.
When I hibernated Joe in a box I always double boxed. I used a box the size of a small fridge with a smaller box inside that contained Joe.
Get the biggest box you can find and pack it hard with straw. Put the box containing your tortoise in the middle of this box That’s left to right and top to bottom as your tortoise mustn’t be able to get close to the edge. Pack more straw on top.
Put the box some where the temperature is as stable as possible. Our shed got full sun by day and risked getting too warm. We use our garage which also has the advantage of electrical power. I ran a heater in there on a frost stat. If the temperature dips below 4C the heater cuts in.
I also used an indoor/outdoor min/max thermometer with a wireless probe. The probe goes in the box with the tortoise and the main unit on the shelf next to the box. The “indoor” reading is what’s happening in the garage. The”outdoor” reading, gathered by the probe, is the temperature the tortoise is at.
I gave up with box hibernation and switched to fridge hibernation because even double-boxed I couldn’t achieve temperature stability here in Kent thanks to climate change
