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Hi!
I have been reading your posts and looking at your photos of your tortoises and enclosures, so I have some questions to ask...
If you didn't already know, I'm from Finland. And the number 1 rules for russian tortoises (here in Finland) are:
- big enclosure
- a little bit humidity
I don't know what you think about the space for russians, but here in Finland we have a "rule" that adult russian tortoises needs a 3 x 6 feet enclosure _minimum_? And that's just for one tortoise, two needs more space.
While looking at some enclosurephotos here, I was just wondering, aren't some of them too small? Or do you maybe let your russians outside more often, so do you have a bigger enclosure for them there?
The other thing I was thinking about is the humidity in your russians enclosures. Old researches here in Finland says, that russians don't need humidity that much. However, now they say that humidity is important, and that dry substrate causes pyramiding.
So I just wanted to ask you, how big are your russians enclosures, and how humid is the substrate? I just want to know if your care instructions are same as our care instructions in Finland.
SORRY again for my baaaaad english...try to understand
I have been reading your posts and looking at your photos of your tortoises and enclosures, so I have some questions to ask...
If you didn't already know, I'm from Finland. And the number 1 rules for russian tortoises (here in Finland) are:
- big enclosure
- a little bit humidity
I don't know what you think about the space for russians, but here in Finland we have a "rule" that adult russian tortoises needs a 3 x 6 feet enclosure _minimum_? And that's just for one tortoise, two needs more space.
While looking at some enclosurephotos here, I was just wondering, aren't some of them too small? Or do you maybe let your russians outside more often, so do you have a bigger enclosure for them there?
The other thing I was thinking about is the humidity in your russians enclosures. Old researches here in Finland says, that russians don't need humidity that much. However, now they say that humidity is important, and that dry substrate causes pyramiding.
So I just wanted to ask you, how big are your russians enclosures, and how humid is the substrate? I just want to know if your care instructions are same as our care instructions in Finland.
SORRY again for my baaaaad english...try to understand