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that is a crazy set up! Thats bigger than my bedroom haha.

They are TOTALLY loving it! And each tortoise has an area that he or she prefers! I have that deep box for digging/burrowing, and El & Hurley are ALWAYS buried in there! Varda, Carmine, Mithril and Roland prefer to burrow into the deep hay area. Billy mostly hangs around by the basking area and sleeps in the hide near that area at night. Calypso chooses a different spot almost every night, I guess she gets bored easily!

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I really like the different areas that they have to explore and the size. I think it will keep your beautiful torts very happy.

Be careful of just clamping lights to sides of enclosure. It there is a way to securely hang them from above with chain you'll have a safer environment, especially if your going to put one over the hay.

Misty
5 Sulcata's
3 Leopard's
3 Indian Star's

Melissa, that is correct those are Kellys Russian Torts.

I've slowly been expanding this... it's almost 7' wide now, and a bit longer... it probably doesn't look much different than the first pics (to you guys) but it seems so much larger in person!

This is the main section (50/50 bed a brick/sand, with plywood for the eating area):


This is the hay section (to the right of the main section), a part of that is just empty... I ran out of vinyl so threw some bin lids on the ground as a temporary fix... one of them has a ton of calcium carbonate dumped on it; some of the girls go over there for a breather or a cool down, actually...


this is to the bottom left of the main section... an extra little "nook" with cypress mulch and another basking lamp (just to give them a little variance), and their deep digging box (oops, you can tell I only "watered" half of it! LOL) which also has a basking lamp - usually I keep 2/3rds of this box covered with rubbermaid bin lids (except where the light is)...

Kelly you have made such a wonderful interactive place for your Russains. I wish I had the inside space to do something like that. I do have a question, what is the wooden looking thing in the top pic. It looks hollow?
Great job.

there's a couple of those in there... they are hallow round "bases" for a table... the torts like to go through them or hide in them!

Great idea for recycled and/or reclaimed materials. I love that.
Now if you could just come over and redo my back yard by spring that would be great LOL