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Thanks Thomas! Here’s the list of what all was used and the price on each: 2- full sheets of pressure treated plywood $138 8- pressure treated 8 foot 2x2 $70 1- 50 foot roll of 4 foot chicken wire $28 3- landscaping timber’s $18 2- tons of top soil with 10% sand and pit gravel mixed in $80 1- 25...

They weren’t allowed to jump while it was there. I moved it to mow. It’s back in its regular spot now. When I was little I fell off a trampoline and busted my head on a tool box. I’ve always made sure there’s nothing sitting all the way around ours. I never forgot that busted head of mine😜 It...

Been busting butt the past few weeks getting ready for spring. We run a big garden every year which I’ve been getting ready as well as building an outdoor pen for the tortoises! It’s coming along well and I’m excited to be getting close to done. Just need to fasten the cold frame to the pen and...

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These guys have been a joy! Still deciding what I’m gonna do once the weather is better. I don’t want to go all out on an outdoor enclosure as we are still in the market for a house. Might just do a simple 8x4 pen for this spring/summer. They are still doing well. Had a bit of pyramiding which I...

I have lived on the shore my whole life and couldn’t fathom living anywhere else. I’ve travelled my fair share but nothing beats QA county for me. Something about smelling the bay in the air that just does it for me!!! Hvac tape is the new duct tape! I mean who takes drab grey over shiny silver?

The girls and me ran out to run a couple errands and the middle had fell to 93% and the cool end 97%. And the box has not warmed all the way up yet. I’m gonna let it be for now as long as the humidity tapers off a bit more throughout the day and then go from there. But it’s a relief that I...

The ventilation was what it was @Tom. Humidity is super high now. 70% on the hot end and 99% everywhere else. I put hvac tape on majority of the vents this morning and did a light watering. Should I remove some of the tape now to try and get the humidity back down a bit or just let it sit and...

Tom nailed it. My chamber had to much ventilation. I put the hvac tape over majority of the vents in the back and did a light sprinkle with my watering can and the hot end is now sitting at 70% and everywhere else is 99%? So I may need to remove some of the tape but I feel like I’m back on track...

I grew up in Queen Anne county but live closer to Salisbury now. All my family is back in QA county though. I didn’t go to the parade because I had to work but went last year and the the years before that. Where I grew up in Queen Anne, grasonville, I live on a massive 300 acre lot that day next...

I wondered if maybe I should put hvac tape over some of the vents in the back. Damn. That is gonna be hard to do with it being an 8 footer with 5 inches of very wet orchid bark. I will try in the morning though lol. Yeah I really thought my lighting was good. I didn’t mind in summer when it went...

I don’t see them basking all that often.

It’s an 8 foot sealed chamber and the bulb is a regular 60 watt incandescent. I have a 45 and a 50 watt incandescent too so I will switch to the lower wattage to get the temp down a bit. Hopefully that stops it. I thought that I read somewhere that too fast growth from to much eating could...

The heat bulb is a 60 way incandescent flood but I have a 50 and a 45 I can switch too. The hot end humidity is measured by a probe sitting directly under the bulb that is also sitting on a piece of slate. Once they step off the plate the humidity hops up into the 50’s. I’m using orchid bark at...

I have a video but I can’t upload those huh?

Try as I might to have super smooth shell growth the guys are pyramiding a bit. I have to assume it’s from to quick growth. Conditions in the enclosure have been ideal. It’s an 8 foot box with the hot end at 100-104 with humidity at 45-50%, degrees he middle is at 83-85 with humidity at 65% give...

Oh my gosh.

Credit goes to Chris and Casey at GST for hatching such beauties but I’ll do my best to raise them well into adults. It’s been a joy seeing them constantly changing. So far they are looking nice and smooth and are gaining weight well. They seem happy so I’m happy?

Right!!! To just sit and watch them is joy.

They are all apulian.