Evidently one of my rescued desert tortoises laid eggs that I didn't know about, because this a.m. I found this wandering around in the quarantine yard:
So I had to hurry up and glom together some sort of closed chamber for it:
It's pretty hard cutting holes in those plastic tub lids, so I apologize to all of those I told to do it. Must be an easier way!
I cut two holes in a lid, then lined the holes with kitchen foil. I attached the lights to a home made light stand and positioned the tub under the lights. One light is a 100 watt MVB that is on a timer to come on at noon and go off at 1p. The other is a regular 100 watt incandescent bulb. It's not on a timer, and I'll turn it off at noon and back on at 1p so the enclosure doesn't get too hot . There is no other heat source because my house is hot in this hot summer weather. If I see that the night time temp is getting too low, I'll add a 25 watt CHE for night.
Desert tortoise babies grow slowly, so he should be able to live in this container until he's big enough to be adopted.
So I had to hurry up and glom together some sort of closed chamber for it:
It's pretty hard cutting holes in those plastic tub lids, so I apologize to all of those I told to do it. Must be an easier way!
I cut two holes in a lid, then lined the holes with kitchen foil. I attached the lights to a home made light stand and positioned the tub under the lights. One light is a 100 watt MVB that is on a timer to come on at noon and go off at 1p. The other is a regular 100 watt incandescent bulb. It's not on a timer, and I'll turn it off at noon and back on at 1p so the enclosure doesn't get too hot . There is no other heat source because my house is hot in this hot summer weather. If I see that the night time temp is getting too low, I'll add a 25 watt CHE for night.
Desert tortoise babies grow slowly, so he should be able to live in this container until he's big enough to be adopted.