hide box

How can I get my tortoise to use his other hide more? He refuses to use any of the hides I provide except for the wooden bridge hide he has had since forever, right now he has a big apple crate on the cool side (27-28⁰) and he still chooses the bridge hide. At first I just thought he might only...

Hello fellow Florida RF keepers! I need to build a new outdoor hide for my redfoot Lizzie. I am going to make it heated for when the temps drop during winter. My question is, does it need an insulated subfloor or is it ok to for the floor to be the ground (like a 5 sided cube instead of a 6...

OK, I finally have a relatively decent "work in progress" outdoor enclosure set up for my Russian tortoise, Fezzik (4'5" long, guessing 4ish years), which has an enclosed/predator safe "night" area, and a larger day area (with door between). Right now he is only out during the day, and still in...

Hi all, My tortoise Miguel (9/10wo Eastern Hermann) doesn’t use her hides (half coconuts) much, instead favors napping and sleeping under her substrate most of the time. I got rid of the cool side hide to give her more romping space. She gets shade from various plants real and fake on that side...

I’m wondering where to put my tortoise hide. Under the heat lamp, away?

Hi everyone, thanks to advice from many of you, Sheldon (young adult male Sulcata about 30 pounds) is now using a nice outdoors hide box we built him. Are soft wood chips (such as pine or cedar) ok for the bottom of the hide box, or do torts eat those? We need some dense substrate on the...