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5 degrees c, it fluctuated slightly by one or two degrees but not very often :-)

It is one of life's wonders I'm sure (my partner and friends think I'm crazy) that coming out of the fridge after fifteen weeks hibernating that within four hours Terence is eating, taking an interest his surroundings and having a drink. These are such amazing animals and I'm absolutely in awe...

Hi Yvonne, having checked pretty much everywhere on the net I can't find any advice that doesn't say the tortoise in question will lose weight? I didn't realise that this wasn't always the case!

Oh okay, I'm just waiting for a UVB tube to be delivered and then I'll get him out. Thanks for the advice :-) I didn't want to keep him In there too long.

This is the second year that I have hibernated Terence. The first year as I had only had him around 7 months I didn't want to do it for too long, 6 weeks the vet recommended as the minimum. I was rather against hibernating him as I felt I wasn't overly knowledgable about it but he seemed intent...

PLEASE READ I think he'd much prefer something like coco coir... The bricks that you soak. The end result is much like soil that he can dig down into, and it holds moisture really well, keeping humidity levels up.

That's a good idea!! I'll do that, thanks :-)

I have now ordered a temp gun to make sure the temps in Terry's indoor enclosure are bang on, I was just wondering how best to use it? An I looking for the temperature at 'ground' level or where the shell would be? I've been using digital thermometers but I'm not trusting the readings too much...

A friend of mine has this plant: And it's apparently an aloe, and she's taken lots of 'babies' and potted them... I was just wondering if it was safe to put in my Russians enclosure?? [hr] Apparently it's a haworthia... Just foun it on tortoisetable.org... And yes it's fine, happy days :-)

Ohhhh, okay will do! Guess its pointless worrying over the results unless I'm sure the readings are correct, what make is yours???

On days when it's sunny he's outside, a few weeks back we had a about 7 days of glorious sunshine and he was outside between 8 and ten hours a day, i just brought him in at night as I was worried about cats/foxes etc. as the weather is so bad at the moment I just wanted to make sure that inside...

The uk, the weather here at the moment is horrendous, cloudy and stormy then patches of sun, he goes out whenever I can allow but it's not even hitting 16 degrees in the last week or so :-( so much for summer!!! And thanks for the reply :-)

What would be the ideal humidity levels for a 4/5 year old Horsfields? My table varies between 50 and 65%, is this okay??? He also gets outside time when the weather allows. Basking temp is 34 cool end 26 and areas between a steady gradient between the two. He has rocks under his basking lamp...