hatchling tort table

[Yvonne G]

I just purchased a SA leopard tortoise hatchling from Ben Awes. The two SA leopards I bought from Tom 3 years ago have outgrown their tort table, so I cleaned it all out, sanitized it and set it up for my new little baby. The table is 4'x1.5' and I think the sides are 10" but may be a foot tall. It is mounted on a wall of the leopard tortoise shed:

I use seedling tray heat mats under the humid hide:

I put the mat on the bare bottom of the table and all substrate over the top of it:

Down at the left end is a nice, big lid for water:

And at the other end, positioned over the heat mat, is the humid hide. The heat percolates up through the orchid bark and keeps the moist air nice and warm:

I like to raise babies in two's or groups, and I'm not sure if having one baby all by it's lonesome is going to work. We'll see.

 

[Vegas_Leopard]

Beautiful S.A. Leopard Yvonne! I'm sure your GPP, will do fine as a "lone wolf" keep us update on how this one grows! Have you weighed this beauty in?

 

[wellington]

Congrats on the new babe. I like the set up.

 

[Yvonne G]

Thanks. I may have to cover or partially cover it in order to keep it humid in there. Hopefully the humid hide will do its job. I raised two other hatchlings in this same set-up starting in October also, and didn't have any trouble keeping them growing smoothly. So it should work out ok for this baby too.

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Beautiful S.A. Leopard Yvonne! I'm sure your GPP, will do fine as a "lone wolf" keep us update on how this one grows! Have you weighed this beauty in?

No, I haven't weighed him, but I made a tracing around the edge of him on a piece of paper. My scale is used to weighing bigger bodies, and even at a half a pound, it doesn't round up to 1lbs. Has to be over 5lbs before it registers. (I'm too cheap to invest in something that weighs smaller items)