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I've got a friend looking at having one of my tortoises and she was asking how much it all came to I didn't count it all up as I did it and some stuff I got for free through friends but I thought someone in the future may be interested so I will post the list of items used and costs below with...

So I've been a bit busy with a new human member of the family arriving but as you can see both tortoises are loving life in their new enclosure. I've added the flood light which seems to keep them both up and active.

One of them seems to be enjoying themselves. I've ordered a good flood light for the enclosure as I think it's too dark and as they aren't that active at the moment.

A converted bike store. Very well insulated for year round use in England.

Final photo for now. It seems to be keeping to around 27 in the hot end and down at 20 in the cool. But I will monitor this as I'm not convinced it's stabilised. Left to do is: Door to outside Create a good two birth burrow for them Add some stuff to keep them interested Add a WiFi camera to...

And they are in! With a little help from my son.

So over night test done and it maintained a temprature of 20°C in the hot end and 17°C in the cooler all night. This is warmer than they are used to overnight so I may turn it down slightly. Although having read a number of topics on here people seem to suggest these probably wouldn't be bad...

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At the moment it's maintaining a temprature of 17 in the hot end and 16 in the cool. I think a 1 degree drop in an enclosure almost 6foot wide is pretty good. Considering it's around 4 outside at the moment.

Thanks Tom. It's in and at the moment seems to maintaining the heat very well. I will see how much the temperatures change overnight as that will be the real test but at the moment it seems to be doing very well.

One will be put in. I'm just in the unfortunate position of being in a rush, so as it won't be used until the spring, I decides to wait until then and come up with the best design I can. Any suggestions would be great. At the moment ideas are: 1 Smaller door cut into the main door with some type...

Not yet. It will be screwed down but wanted to make sure it does it's job first :)

That's me pretty much finished for now. All that's left to do is move over the electrics from their current home and then add the substrate and make it all homely. Before i do that I'm going to spend one or two days making sure the oil filled radiator is on the right setting to keep the...

So as you can see proper building started today. I've decided to lower the roof of the tortoises section which will give me a nice area to store tortoise supplies and make it easier to keep warm hopefully.

I managed to find this the other day for any UK buyers looking for curtains/doors. It's a lot cheaper than what I could find elsewhere and can easily be cut down to length/width needed.

It will be a fairly similar design just with thicker insulation due to the temps here and the extra size of the building. I did consider making it a foot shorter but in order to do that it would mean a lot of adjusting to a pre fab unit which might cause me more issues than it is worth. It's...

I will update along the way for anyone who cares. :)

So building is underway with the new enclosure/ night box. It will have 75mm insulation board all round and eventually a small door for the tortoises to come and go as they please. I plan on using a small oil filled radiator for background heat/ night time temp maintenance. Plus a CHE and a...

Thanks Colin. I was leaning towards a oil heater but the thermostat I ordered has arrived with a lower output wattage than it was advertised at so I'm not sure if I bin the radiator idea and just go for a tube design. It will only be needed to maintain a background temp I'm hoping.

I'm based in Oxford UK so fairly mild all year. I believe I worked out they were Ibera. I'll have a look through those threads thank you.