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Hi everyone!
At the school I work at there is an unused "butterfly garden" atrium. It is glassed in with a locked door only staff can enter. The top is open to natural light. Think of it like almost a very small courtyard. I want to transform it into an awesome tortoise enclosure!
Except I don't know where to start. For example, can I put soil and grow grass on these rocks? Can I just put tons of substrate instead? How would weather effect the substrate if that is the way to go?
It's a beautiful enclosure and students would be so in love with something ALIVE in there. (BTW for particularly poor weather days, I would have a tank set up in my classroom. However, where I live most of the tortoise's days would be in this)
I'm even thinking of keeping the pots and turning them on their sides as hideaways that maybe the kids can help me paint
At the school I work at there is an unused "butterfly garden" atrium. It is glassed in with a locked door only staff can enter. The top is open to natural light. Think of it like almost a very small courtyard. I want to transform it into an awesome tortoise enclosure!
Except I don't know where to start. For example, can I put soil and grow grass on these rocks? Can I just put tons of substrate instead? How would weather effect the substrate if that is the way to go?
It's a beautiful enclosure and students would be so in love with something ALIVE in there. (BTW for particularly poor weather days, I would have a tank set up in my classroom. However, where I live most of the tortoise's days would be in this)
I'm even thinking of keeping the pots and turning them on their sides as hideaways that maybe the kids can help me paint