Heater went kaput, has to be fully replaced. House (except that room) is in the mid 50s °F atm.
He is pretty small, Russian Tortoise. He's about the size of my spread-finger hand.
The lid is definitely a good idea, I'm going to try to work on that.
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Rupert and I are in a bad situation atm. The heat went out recently and it's going to be a bit over a week for someone to fix it. As a result his normal enclosure is waaay below temperature. The house is fine for the mammals, but not him.
I put him in the bathtub of the only room I can keep...
I think I'm doing an ok job with uvb. He has a basking spot with a Mercury vapor bulb (zoo med), a 1 ft t8 uvb bulb (zilla) that lights most of his enclosure, and he gets to spend time outside whenever rhe humidity is below 50% (I live on a lakefront in South Carolina). I'm also looking at...
I got my Russian Tortoise from a reptile expo, wild caught (bad, I know) a couple months back. According to the vet (exotic reptile vet, not reptile specific) the only thing wrong with him was pin worms, his third dose of dewormer is coming up soon.
He won't even try to eat pellets, soaked or...
Yeah, I really only started on reptiles because I had an ex bf who did a sh*t job with his beardie, so I ended up doing all the research. Fell in love with the animals, out of love with him