Thank you for the advice I appreciate it , I’ll definitely add some of those plants if I come by them at my local greenhouse . I am for sure not finding them outside lol , NY winter is relentless .
So taking you’re advice and all the others I doubled his enclosure today in size and it’s closed top, he now has a incandescent flood bulb for a basking spot , his heat emitter has been moved to keep the ambient temp and a UVB t8 bulb runs the length of the lid to light up the whole enclosure ...
I’m currently using a reptisun 10 UVB bulb , for basking I have a ceramic heat coil . The area reaches around 90 °F and the rest is warmed by a heat mat . At night the tank is still around 80-90 with the heat from the ceramic emitter and Mat
I recently acquired my first tortoise a leopard tortoise and it’s quite different from my normal reptile and invert setups that I’m used to . Is there any advice I can get to improve what I have and make his home as best as it can be ! (here’s some pics of his crib )