Burrows, how do i make one.

[Caboose]

Im making a 8ft long, 4ft wide, 3ft tall, indoor enclosure for my baby sulcata. I want to make him a burrow but i dont know how.

 

[Caboose]

Can anyone help me with what a burrow in an indoor in closure should look like and have in it?

 

[Levi the Leopard]

well, if you want to make an indoor burrow you have a few options.

1, buy a large drain pipe (think thats what its called) big enough for your tort to fit through. completely bury it with dirt like a dirt tunnel leaving one opening exposed. I've seen this done for Russians.

2, use a cinderblock and some of the caps to make a cave. Again pile the dirt up and over the burrow so the tort can be inside or walk on top. Member Kameya uses these and created a whole thread on how to build them.

3, you could use a large tupperware turned upside down with a hole cut out for the door. bury this in dirt for a nice humid hide/burrow...

does this give you some ideas??

 

[Saleama]

I use a powerade bottle with both ends cut off and a slit up the midle in case an emergency extraction becomes necesary. I have also heard that 6 inch pvc cut at an angle and buried works pretty good. My little ones never used theirs so I gave it to the box turtles and they fight over it. LOL..

 

[Caboose]

Could anyone show me pics of an indoor enclosure burrow and what they have in to support it.

 

[wellington]

Check this thread out. http://www.tortoiseforum.org/thread-70362.html
Hope it helps

 

[Tom]

You don't need a burrow indoors. Burrows are for escaping the above ground temperature extremes. Just use an upside down dish washing tub with a door hole just big enough the tortoise indoors. This will give him a humid hide within the humid closed closed chamber.

If you want to do it anyway, go ahead and have fun with it.

 

[Caboose]

What is a door hole?

 

[Levi the Leopard]

Re: RE: Burrows, how do i make one.

What is a door hole?

A hole big enough for the tortoise to use as a door.

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[Caboose]

So its a hole big enough for the tortoise to get into then it open up bigger inside the hole?

 

[Levi the Leopard]

Uh.... I don't get what you tried to explain.

Do you know what a plastic shoe box looks like? Or a clear tupperware you put your leftover dinner in?

Picture that with no lid. Turn it upside down so the "lid less" top sits on the dirt. Now take scissors and cut out a square your tortoise can walk through.

I can't link to pictures right now...can someone help him out and post a photo??

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[Tom]

http://www.tortoiseforum.org/thread-32333.html

See all those upside down black tubs in the back? It's just that simple.

 

[Caboose]

Should i cover the rub with dirt???

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Or whateverer bedding i have

 

[Levi the Leopard]

You can but you don't have to.

Personally, I always liked to cover it with the dirt so that the torts could walk up and on top of it.

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