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Hello Is this light okay? It is brighter than my previous but doesn't make much heat compared to the other one that was very hot under the bulb

Oh really? Basking lamp is longer than LED? I thought led was like day light and basking lamp was for when the sun was the highest. I will change them tonight.

That's why I took pictures this morning 😅 The lamps turn on automatically at 7am for led, 8:30 i think for heat lamp (it was 9am but I modified last weekend because tortoise is basking under LED light in the morning I think) and i think 10am for UV

This is an old picture. I am not sure i have the new enclosure. Under the ceramic heater (which is off for the moment because of summer) there is water. (In the inside enclosure) and there is also a white LED in the center. The big shelter is in the opposite of the heater. In the outside...

Yep I will try and share pictures on how I did it. Thank you And my tortoise seems healthy and does its wheel sometimes for a very long time. And I give him a blueberry once every 2 weeks and now when I put him out of the enclosure he stays next to me and comes to me like to ask for a...

My whole set up is from exo terra. I check about 3 different places and highest i saw was 90uW. But I will check again I think the UV lamps is quite high not close from the tortoise. Maybe at least 35cm high. I dont know if we can see on the picture how high it is. PS: for people who might...

So the tube UV set up was not available in south Korea, so i found a reflector that works with bulbs. That's what I am using. I bought one UVB bulb from terra and I bought the other one in the shop I bought the reflector. I dont remember exactly what I bought. I think they are both exoterra...

This is how my 1 year old tortoise look like now.

Hello, I just got a kind of cheap UV meter just to check approximately the UV light. Note that my tortoise shell is still quite dark even after about 4 months of UV being install. The UV I measured was about 75uW/cm2. But i have no idea what range i am expecting. I will look online now...

Yes i was not talking for now. I just never heard about anything concerning tortoise grooming. So I asked. Better to know now than when it is too late. Ilmaybw i should do something now to prevent it's claws from becoming too long, or give special food or soelmething to prevent its beak from...

Ok thank you. I might need to watch videos at that time cause it looks scary. I also read somewhere we can add chopped hay in the food to help sharpen the beak. But I saw this only once so I dont know if it is reliable. And my tortoise doesn't like eating the hay.

I'm going to read them now. But it is already eating from a clay dish. I bought so it wouldn't be slippery. Also I leave him in a open enclosure in the morning with heat lamp and UV. But the remaining of day and night he is in a closed enclosure where humidity is closed to 90%. The enclosure...

I think for now there are no problem since he is only 1 yo but i was wondering if there was any routine thing I should do.

Hello, I am curious now that my tortoise is becoming bigger. Is there any grooming I need to do? Like cutting claws, taking care of the shell or it's beak to keep it sharp, etc... Thank you in advance.

Thank you. My tortoise is about 1 year old. And he usually doesn't like humidity much so I got worried. I tried to target 50/80