Thanks for the tips. We have seggregated our torts within the enclosure (See pic). We figured we will let them have supervised visits with with each other until they get adjusted to one another. Cheers!
Tom
P.S. The big one on the right is Buttercup and the little guy is Hermes.
Thank you all for the advice, we have already put some into play and have seen an instant increase in humidity up to 56%, we just now need to find ways to maintain it. We found that tossing the mulch worked the fastest and the best so far.
Cheers!
So we have the XL rainforest reptimat underneath our tank...which we bought new off the web, maybe its a dud? When we touch it, the glass in that area isn't really hot, just kind of warm. So to remedy this we got the ceramic heater, but that only heats up the top part, still causing the water...
Hi Yvonne,
Thanks for the info. The older one is 4.5" in carapace length weighing at 350 g, and the younger one is just over 2" weighing in at 50g. I guess all we can do right now is watch them like hawks.
Tom
We just can't get the humidity up in our enclosure as much as we try. We have a 2' wide X 3' long X 18" high terrarium lined with 2" of cypress mulch with a top layer of sphagnum moss in 2/3 of the tank, with a mister that runs for 5 mins in the morning, and 1 minute every hour during the day...
Hello all,
Need some advice here. We bought a 2 year old cherry-head tort back in september. It had a bit of rough start but recently has become a very good eater and active. We just loved her and decided to expand and bought another one just yesterday who is only 2 months old. So it...