So I'm setting up my red foot in a grow tent enclosure, 96"×48"×80", hopefully on its side for more floor space and a shorter ceiling. Substrate will be coco coir, orchid bark and cypress mulch.
I've been through tons of threads about the subject but have some specifics I'm confused about...
Thank you!! Good note about off gassing. I think I have everything here or ordered, except LED ambient lighting. So will full spectrum grow lights for plants be ok for my tortoise as well?
Also I'll admit I haven't gotten around to my own research on this part yet, but if you have any good...
This is for indoor. I was about to do that type of setup, but figured I'd still need to build some kind of flooring. Was gonna do it with pre made garden beds, and the idea was that modular garden beds+those greenhouse toppers should make it easy to use as much space as is available for her...
Thank you! Do you think a think rubber mat or two (my neighbor has a ton of em from a warehouse job) would be fine under the enclosure, to keep it off the ground?
So, I've been agonizing over how to do a better enclosure for my red foot, and for now I've settled on using a grow tent, this one in particular. It's Vivosun 4x8, 80" tall.
I'm hoping I can put it on its side to have a floor space of 8 foot by 80", only 4 feet tall.
Note: My tortoise isn't full...
Hi, I've got a redfoot,so she needs humidity. Working on a long term better enclosure but currently she's in a 40 or 50 gallon tank with a screen mesh lid. I use coco coir substrate kept damp and covered with cypress mulch. It wasn't staying humid and warm enough so I covered with aluminum foil...