Recent content by TristonH

I'm cool with her brumating next winter, hopefully by then she'll have a healthy weight again. Thank you both!

That’s good to know! As I mentioned to Yvonne, I’ll double check some literature on winter time burrow temps around here, just to make sure. She’s currently on a large tortoise table in my shop until her enclosure is finished, and I’m trying not to let her brumate because of her condition when...

Okay cool. I’ve been working with one of our state wildlife biologists on this tortoise, he was the one who got her to me. He suggested that her burrow stay in the high 50’s to low 60’s in winter, so that’s why I was concerned with heating just a little bit. But I’ll look into it more and see if...

To preface: I've recently been given a gopher tortoise, and just built an outdoor burrow for it. It is a regulated species, and I do have a permit, just so that doesn't come up. I took a look at another outdoor enclosure at a nature center near by, and used theirs to plan my own based upon what...