Sharla
New Member
Hi! Nice to meet you all, I'm a new owner of a red footed tortoise, possibly a girl and around a year old.
We are looking for advice around her vivarium, heat and humidity please ?. I'll include pics aswell as description so you guys can hopefully help.
There is coco coir over the bottom of the vivarium, sphagnum moss some under the hide and on top of the hide, 2 spider plants, a Humidity and temperature reader at the cooler end and a temperature reader at the warmer end.
For some reason we couldn't get the Humidity to stay above 70% and it would drop to 60% over night.
We read about blocking of vents if there was too many so we have blocked off 2 of the 4 vents at the back, this is done at the cooler end. now before we did this the windows on the cooler end were misted up and they still are now. Should they be? This seemed to make the Humidity levels rise up to 80% for a few days but have now dropped again to around 75% and goes down to around 70% in the morning so it's better than it was before. I am finding that I am having to spray alot of water around in the morning to get the levels back up again and I'm not sure if the ground is too wet?
The heat thermostat is set to 28°c and that gives the readers at the warmer end of 30°c and at the cooler end 25°c. We turn it down by 2°c over night.
My questions are,
is this good enough Humidity & heat?
Should the windows at the cooler end be misted up?
If the Humidity is too low what else can I do to raise it.
I just want to make sure my red footed is as happy as she can be ??
We are looking for advice around her vivarium, heat and humidity please ?. I'll include pics aswell as description so you guys can hopefully help.
There is coco coir over the bottom of the vivarium, sphagnum moss some under the hide and on top of the hide, 2 spider plants, a Humidity and temperature reader at the cooler end and a temperature reader at the warmer end.
For some reason we couldn't get the Humidity to stay above 70% and it would drop to 60% over night.
We read about blocking of vents if there was too many so we have blocked off 2 of the 4 vents at the back, this is done at the cooler end. now before we did this the windows on the cooler end were misted up and they still are now. Should they be? This seemed to make the Humidity levels rise up to 80% for a few days but have now dropped again to around 75% and goes down to around 70% in the morning so it's better than it was before. I am finding that I am having to spray alot of water around in the morning to get the levels back up again and I'm not sure if the ground is too wet?
The heat thermostat is set to 28°c and that gives the readers at the warmer end of 30°c and at the cooler end 25°c. We turn it down by 2°c over night.
My questions are,
is this good enough Humidity & heat?
Should the windows at the cooler end be misted up?
If the Humidity is too low what else can I do to raise it.
I just want to make sure my red footed is as happy as she can be ??