Amber Matukonis
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Hi Everyone,
I hope someone can help me. I have tried to review some of the posts but I am hopelessly lost. I have a brand new baby Sulcata tortoise. It is almost a month old. It is very tiny and fits in the palm of my hand. We did not want to put it into a glass terrarium so my husband build it a nice large wooden "condo" in our front room. I live in Arizona. the baby will get indirect sunlight. We also have the basking light and the daylight one for it.
My problem...we don't know what to put down over the wooden bottom. I have read of lots of things from shower curtains to pond lining glued down. We also don't know what really to use for the bedding if you will. We bought Forrest Flooring from the pet store (it is cypress chips) but when we opened the bag and poured it into the enclosure...a VERY large cockroach came out and it was very alive. We quickly caught it and killed it. But we got rid of all of the cypress chips because we were worried about possible cockroach eggs. So now we are reluctant to get another bag of this stuff but don't know what to use. Plus it seemed he was too small for the large chips? It appears you can use play sand? and even wet it down a little? We really want to take good care of this little guy but we need some help and it seems all the websites say something different.
Please help us out.
Thank you,
Amber
I hope someone can help me. I have tried to review some of the posts but I am hopelessly lost. I have a brand new baby Sulcata tortoise. It is almost a month old. It is very tiny and fits in the palm of my hand. We did not want to put it into a glass terrarium so my husband build it a nice large wooden "condo" in our front room. I live in Arizona. the baby will get indirect sunlight. We also have the basking light and the daylight one for it.
My problem...we don't know what to put down over the wooden bottom. I have read of lots of things from shower curtains to pond lining glued down. We also don't know what really to use for the bedding if you will. We bought Forrest Flooring from the pet store (it is cypress chips) but when we opened the bag and poured it into the enclosure...a VERY large cockroach came out and it was very alive. We quickly caught it and killed it. But we got rid of all of the cypress chips because we were worried about possible cockroach eggs. So now we are reluctant to get another bag of this stuff but don't know what to use. Plus it seemed he was too small for the large chips? It appears you can use play sand? and even wet it down a little? We really want to take good care of this little guy but we need some help and it seems all the websites say something different.
Please help us out.
Thank you,
Amber