New Outdoor Enclosure (with pictures)!

Hi! Recently I bought the Broadleaf Testudo Mix from tortoisesupply.com and I love it! I would highly recommend buying it for your outdoor enclosure! It is very fast growing and looks great! Here are some pictures after 5 days!

tortoisekyle said:

Hi! Recently I bought the Broadleaf Testudo Mix from tortoisesupply.com and I love it! I would highly recommend buying it for your outdoor enclosure! It is very fast growing and looks great! Here are some pictures after 5 days!View attachment 238966View attachment 238967

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Just so you know... That tortoise looking thing in their isn’t my tortoise, I made it out of clay

Looks pretty good! How high are the walls, not including the amount below the substrate?

Looking good. The sides look very low. If this is for a Russian he will climb out quickly. I would either add another board to the height of the walls or put a lip/hangover board on them.

TechnoCheese said:

Looks pretty good! How high are the walls, not including the amount below the substrate?

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From the pictures it looks pretty low. But it is about 6 inches tall and my Russian is pretty small. I will probably add another block of wood soon though!

wellington said:

Looking good. The sides look very low. If this is for a Russian he will climb out quickly. I would either add another board to the height of the walls or put a lip/hangover board on them.

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Yes I agree! It is about 6 inches tall but I will add another block of wood for my tortoise!

I've got the exact same thing going on - just built the enclosure and planted the seeds - covered with burlap till they sprout & root well.

Wht a nice enclosure! But as others have said, the walls are low. Unless you have a juvenile tortoise, you definitely need higher walls. This is my adult Russian. She’s just a smidge over six inches. If this were a six-inch tall wall, rather than a gate, she’d be gone.

They can use their necks as a kind of limb, to pull their bodies up. So it’s not just the height of their legs, Add that extra height ASAP!

libscoot said:

I've got the exact same thing going on - just built the enclosure and planted the seeds - covered with burlap till they sprout & root well.

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Great!

RosemaryDW said:

Wht a nice enclosure! But as others have said, the walls are low. Unless you have a juvenile tortoise, you definitely need higher walls. This is my adult Russian. She’s just a smidge over six inches. If this were a six-inch tall wall, rather than a gate, she’d be gone.

They can use their necks as a kind of limb, to pull their bodies up. So it’s not just the height of their legs, Add that extra height ASAP!

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Just did!

tortoisekyle said:

Hi! Recently I bought the Broadleaf Testudo Mix from tortoisesupply.com and I love it! I would highly recommend buying it for your outdoor enclosure! It is very fast growing and looks great! Here are some pictures after 5 days!View attachment 238966View attachment 238967

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After 2 weeks!

What substrate did you use for your outdoor area?
I can’t tell if it’s soil or coco coir?

tortoisekyle said:

Hi! Recently I bought the Broadleaf Testudo Mix from tortoisesupply.com and I love it! I would highly recommend buying it for your outdoor enclosure! It is very fast growing and looks great! Here are some pictures after 5 days!View attachment 238966View attachment 238967

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This looks so awesome! I’ve been looking into getting plants for my outdoor enclosure, I’ll have to give this a try!

And as others have mentioned-higher walls!!! My Russian escaped last year and I thought the walls were plenty high for him. I would say they need to be high enough that they can’t get their head up to it to see outside of their enclosure.

I got my tortoise back, someone at a neighbor’s yard sale saw a “rock” moving across another neighbor’s yard and I got my Walter back. He is never unsupervised now when outside.

I wanted to show you a video of my little escape artist, but I guess this pic of his climbing abilities will have to do!


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