ZIP and his $64 enclosure pictures

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This is ZIP
My new and only male Redfoot.
When I was gifted him, I had to make a pen quickly.
This setup is both easy. Cheap. Sturdy and 100% removable or adaptable.
First. Pound metal fence posts into the ground with a hammer
 

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Then screw 2x4 and fence pickets.
The 2x4s get attached to the posts.
Then screw the pickets on from the outside 4 high.
 

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I ended up with a bachelor pad for ZIP that was very fast and very inexpensive. (It could still use a little TLC)
You need a hammer for the posts. A saw for the 2x4s and a screw driver.
Use OUTDOOR screws such as 1.5" decking screws.
Or have your 8 foot long 2x4s cut into four, 24" sections for free at the store and make life even simpler.
Those fence pickets are pressure treated and last a very long time!
This one is an odd shape because I had a very large hibiscus bush in the way.
 

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Today he disappeared.
Somehow it looked like he had escaped.
But I later found him pretty much in the open, right in full view in his enclosure.
It is AMAZING how they blend into the grass and leaf litter
Oh I hate when that happens. Panic sets in, you frantically look and look and look several times over every inch. Then, poof they are right there where you had looked a million times.
Even as large adults they can blend right in, ugh.
Glad he wasn't lost after all.
 

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Oh I hate when that happens. Panic sets in, you frantically look and look and look several times over every inch. Then, poof they are right there where you had looked a million times.
Even as large adults they can blend right in, ugh.
Glad he wasn't lost after all.
My primary pen doesn't have much grass in it.
This new one is still pretty grassy.
 

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Oh I hate when that happens. Panic sets in, you frantically look and look and look several times over every inch. Then, poof they are right there where you had looked a million times.
Even as large adults they can blend right in, ugh.
Glad he wasn't lost after all.

Yeah been there so many times... I’m afraid to make my enclosures really large because it’s taken me 20-30 minutes to find a 5” redfoot tortoise in 100 square feet of grass. I did have one get out once. It had made a home between some potted plants 50 feet from the enclosure. Time to find it - about 3 months.
 

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Yeah been there so many times... I’m afraid to make my enclosures really large because it’s taken me 20-30 minutes to find a 5” redfoot tortoise in 100 square feet of grass. I did have one get out once. It had made a home between some potted plants 50 feet from the enclosure. Time to find it - about 3 months.
I have a theory....but I haven't proven it to work.
I think that my dog, Suki would zero right in on the location if one did escape. The yard has another full fence. So actually getting out of the yard would take some time.
Suki is afraid of them. And at her tiny size, that is wise. But she is fascinated by them.
 

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