StarShell
New Member
Hello i'm getting a hatchling Indian star tortoise tomorrow from Tortoise supply, and I was wondering what I should do when it gets here. I actually don't know how to show you pictures but I currently have a Zoo med tortoise house(temporary) with a coco coir and top soil substrate, with a Zoo med Powersun UV Mercury Vapor UVB Lamp which on their website they said they used but now I see a lot of you don't recommend it but I set it up earlier and already opened it and it was expensive i'm going to use it, and I have Zoo med grassland tortoise diet, store bought romaine lettuce and collard greens because I don't have green thumb and I can never grow anything, but I did put cuttlebone in the enclosure and I have the calcium powder so maybe that'll work. I have a 2 terra cotta dishes for food and water, I also have a humid hide box with sphagnum moss in it to raise the humidity because I am having a bit of trouble keeping humidity up. I have a piece of slate under the basking lamp , I don't know why i have it even though I won't be feeding it on it, it's just there and I kind of like it it looks nice, but anyway I have half of the screen covered with a thin, unused baby blanket because I feel like something will go wrong if I use a closed chamber so sorry but I really don't feel comfortable using a closed chamber. If you have any advice please tell me sorry i'm not able to provide pictures but hopefully this is detailed enough, Thank you!