New baby coming Tuesday!

MaddieLynn

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This afternoon I ordered a redfoot hatchling from Tortoise Supply after reading great reviews on here & I couldn’t be more excited! The little guy should ship out tomorrow night and arrive Tuesday morning.

I just finished setting up the enclosure and I love how it turned out! I converted a 55g aquarium to a closed chamber to house him over the winter and am excited to work on a nice outside enclosure for summer (at least for daytimes).

Substrate is coconut coir, plants are all fake from Hobby Lobby. Instead of a humid hide in a box I’ve stuffed wet sphagnum moss under the plant cover in the right half of the enclosure. Thermostat set to 88 right under the CHE and humidity has been sitting in the 90s (readings are off in pics bc I’d had the lid off working on the inside). Please ignore dirty walls as I still need to wipe those down.

Can’t wait to post pics of the little guy in a couple of days!
 

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ZEROPILOT

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Nice work.
Take a close look every now and then to make sure none of the plastic plants have nibble marks on them.
Over the years, I've had pretty good luck with plastic and "silk" plants. But every now and then there is a tortoise that wants to eat everything or a plant that looks irresistible.
You'll know in a week or so if you're safe.
And congratulations.
 

Anyfoot

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She’s here! Arrived at 10am safe and sound.
Looks nice. Hardly any growth. Do you know how old he is.
Enclosure looks good. 1 thing I would change is to take off the dome around the CHE. It’s making the heat concentrated into a hot spot directly below it. Without the dome the eat will spread out more instead of down.
 

TammyJ

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Congrats and all the best! Cute little chipper.
 

Emplush

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I got a cherryhead from tortoise supply a couple months ago. And the little one is going strong healthy and happy. Cute baby you got there. I cannot say enough good things about tortoise supply. Nice looking setup too.
 
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