Dont want to ruin taras enclosure

[TaraTort]

I now have wood chippings but i am going to change that to 50/50 soil and play sand...
If i just put it in the enclosure surely it will rot it? I could stain and lacquer it but then it will be 2 days till she can go in and i dont think i will have anything else to put her in
Do you have any ideas or shall i start looking for somewhere to put her in?

 

[Yvonne G]

If I'm understanding you correctly, your enclosure is made out of wood? If that's the case, you can just take everything out, line it with a sheet of plastic or a shower curtain, then put everything back in. You can buy plastic film at any do-it-yourself store. They make it to use as a painter's drop cloth, or they sell it in rolls for other uses.

Yvonne

 

[Crazy1]

You can line it with a shower curtain or a tarp.

 

[TaraTort]

Thanks thats much easier,

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Oh, i will use shower curtains or tarp or a peice of plastic if not, but will pond liner be ok to put on the bottom.
Ohh and i forgot yess my enclosure is made out of wood

Thanks

 

[Yvonne G]

Yes, pond liner would be fine if that's what you have on hand.

Yvonne

 

[TaraTort]

Yess we have some pond liner spare from our pond in the back garden so we will use that, thanks for all the help you have given me,

 

[stells]

I wouldn't do the 50/50 mix i would do more of a 80% soil to 20% sand mix... with the 50/50 alot of tortoises have had eye irritability.