Hi everyone!

Over Christmas break, we built a new enclosure for our two Hermann's tortoises. It is similar to their old one but is a good bit larger. There is only one light fixture shown in the picture because it is a mercury vapor self ballasted lamp that provides both UVB and heat.

This post was last modified: 01-06-2008 10:34 AM by josh.

looks great. how big are they?

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I'm not seeing a pic either

Sorry, I was posting from my cell phone and linking to the image on my own site but I forgot to disable the hotlink protection on my site. Working on it now

Looks good Jenny! Very very nice setup!

Great looking habitat. What size is the habitat?

One is just under four inches long and the other is about two and a half. This house should last them until we move- we are building a house on some acreage and once we move there the torts will have a nice outdoor enclosure.

It is 24" by 36" so that makes it six square feet and with the upstairs area they have over two more square feet up there. The old habitat had an upstairs too, and Virgil really loved it- he went upstairs to poop every day.

Someone is quite handy, luckily I have a professional carpenter in the house so I will definitely be using some of your ideas there in the future. Eventually I want a group of Egyptian Torts so this would be a handy setup for them that wouldnt take up a lot of space and still give them allot of room to muck around. Thanks for sharing!

Oh also is that a blue tinted stain you used? It looks really good!