Sandy Murrieta
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Thank you Tom. Yesterday I found myself through many rabbit holes in this forum. I'm trying to gain as much knowledge on my new CDT before he comes to live with me at the end of this month. Maybe you could direct me to some good links that works for my tortoises. This year for hibernation he's going to be in my garage but I'd like to have him doing it naturally next year. I saw some of your tortoise homes (Unsure of the correct name) I liked them. You heat their box, keeping a constant temp. I've googled homes and preparing for hibernation with a CDT. I found a cinder block example underground (seems that's in case of flooding?) I'm a bit confused and I'm hoping you can help me. Should I look into heating since I have cold nights? What about the winter, do you think it's too cold to have him burrow outside? The desert can get much colder and the wild ones don't have heaters, lol
I live in Murrieta, our weather is close to desert type weather. Hot in the day and cold in the evenings. Summer can start as early as spring but the evening drop below 40's, frost, blowing smoke its cold, we've even had snow. If he's outside either still in hibernation or now coming out should I duplicate your box with the mini heater? I ask this because with my Google searches I've not seen heat with those burrows.
I began this forum search yesterday looking to see if I needed to transplant my star jasmine. Some sites don't list jasmine as bad then others do. Your list showed it as bad and I'm going to trust you. Luckily I've not done much with my back yard so it will be perfect for him. Lots of weeds!!! I did plant grape vines a few years ago, that seems to be ok for him. I've got a few plumeria plants, not sure but I think those are fine. I just looked up this flower I've got that is so hardy I love it. I believe it's a canna tropicanna. It is a year long foliage with flowers annually it acts as cover for my air conditioner and I can't seem to kill it, I kill everything, lol What I just found was it's not harmful to cats, dogs or humans. Then I have some different cactus's.
My plan is to plant Hibiscus and weed seed so he'll have have weeds to chomp on. I'm also going to plant honey suckle in between my grape vines for the humming birds and beauty with the vines are dormant. It will also give some privacy, I'm hoping.
If the plants seem to be fine, give me a thumbs up. Suggestions are welcome and wanted.
I'm confused about his burrows, would love you to address my concerns, thanks for any help you can give!
Sandy
I live in Murrieta, our weather is close to desert type weather. Hot in the day and cold in the evenings. Summer can start as early as spring but the evening drop below 40's, frost, blowing smoke its cold, we've even had snow. If he's outside either still in hibernation or now coming out should I duplicate your box with the mini heater? I ask this because with my Google searches I've not seen heat with those burrows.
I began this forum search yesterday looking to see if I needed to transplant my star jasmine. Some sites don't list jasmine as bad then others do. Your list showed it as bad and I'm going to trust you. Luckily I've not done much with my back yard so it will be perfect for him. Lots of weeds!!! I did plant grape vines a few years ago, that seems to be ok for him. I've got a few plumeria plants, not sure but I think those are fine. I just looked up this flower I've got that is so hardy I love it. I believe it's a canna tropicanna. It is a year long foliage with flowers annually it acts as cover for my air conditioner and I can't seem to kill it, I kill everything, lol What I just found was it's not harmful to cats, dogs or humans. Then I have some different cactus's.
My plan is to plant Hibiscus and weed seed so he'll have have weeds to chomp on. I'm also going to plant honey suckle in between my grape vines for the humming birds and beauty with the vines are dormant. It will also give some privacy, I'm hoping.
If the plants seem to be fine, give me a thumbs up. Suggestions are welcome and wanted.
I'm confused about his burrows, would love you to address my concerns, thanks for any help you can give!
Sandy