Goodbye Cruel World...

[PeanutbuttER]

... is probably what all of the little phorid flies are saying to each other at our house tonight. I got rid of all the old substrate in the tort table, bleached the entire thing, washed every bit of tortoise furniture and was left with one empty and clean table.

My plan is to use newspaper for a week and set up sticky traps. That way I can get rid of all the flies. I'm excited. We ordered some cypress mulch from Tyler and we'll be switching to that at the end of the next week. Anyhow, I thought people might be interested to see what my tort table looks like without anything in it.

 

[Tom]

If that's a real plant your flies are already nesting in it.

You have a great tortoise table. I like the way you built it.

 

[terryo]

That tort table is perfect. It looks like some fine piece of furniture . Wow.

 

[PeanutbuttER]

Thank you both. That's a fake plant. It's covering a humidifier.

 

[heyprettyrave]

do you have a lid for your enclosure, i dont and it seems like the humidity is just like non existent. does the humidifier work well?

 

[khanvict]

that's a nice looking table, is it custom built? what's the length x width?

 

[PeanutbuttER]

Yes, I built it all on my own and mostly from scraps. The dimensions are 5'8" by 2'9", but I just made it the size of the wood that I had handy at the time. The legs are made from two by fours that used to be stairs in our barn.

The humidifier gets the job done. At some point I'd like to build a humid hide around it. I think the substrate contributed the most to the humidity as it is. Up to now I kept the Russians in it, so humidity wasn't a huge concern of mine. Now I'll be putting my redfoot (Kiwi) in there so I'll watch it more closely.