Last night got pretty cold (for South Texas) for my tortoises. I am in the middle of modifying their heated house for the larger tortoises and killing fire ants to get them out of the walls :/ I think the fire ants are nice and killed, just like I like them (I used soap in the walls and let it get all bubbly). If they are not all dead, they have at least moved out, which is ok, but not ideal (cause they're better if they can't come back). So I brought all of them in last night. They have gotten SO HUGE and HEAVY! Only the littlest leopard isn't in the pic. But this is everybody but the little one.
I was thinking I would find tortoises all over the house this morning, but lucky me, they all stayed in the bins. I did cover them with towels, but they didn't seem deterred by that last night. I think when we finally turned off the lights, they quit trying to escape.
Here's their house with no roof and ant-y walls. When I put the roof on, it was all sand at the top. Those ants stirred up my dirt and mixed it with the sand. Jerks
I was thinking I would find tortoises all over the house this morning, but lucky me, they all stayed in the bins. I did cover them with towels, but they didn't seem deterred by that last night. I think when we finally turned off the lights, they quit trying to escape.
Here's their house with no roof and ant-y walls. When I put the roof on, it was all sand at the top. Those ants stirred up my dirt and mixed it with the sand. Jerks