Heating Solutions

[Tortoise Love08]

I live in Florida and am working on creating a heating solution for my tortoise. He is a yellow foot and lives outdoors. We have a wooden dog house currently with a Cermanic lamp for heating but the temp is getting to 90 degrees at night, is that too hot? Anyone have other ideas?

 

[cmacusa3]

Are you using a thermostat on the CHE/ Ceramic heat emitter?

 

[motero]

When you say 90. What are you measuring?

 

[cmacusa3]

You probably want to put like a plastic doggie door flap on the dog house and then set the heater up on a thermostat. I'm not familiar with the temps for a yellow foot but those are a few things I would suggest.

 

[Tortoise Love08]

I have a dog flap on the house and I am using a CHE and then just a regular air themonter that is in the dog house.

 

[cmacusa3]

I currently have all of these and all work great. 2 and 4 are my favorite because of the digital display but all are good. This way you can dial in the temp you want with the CHE.

 

[motero]

If an over head heat source is to close to the top of the shell it can damage the shell. A thermostat would be great. And measuring the temperature right on the top of the shell to make sure it is not to hot. Ninety would be ok right in the hot spot. But if it is ninety every where than the hot spot is probably too hot.

 

[JoesMum]

You need to use a thermostat with your CHE. I believe 80 is the recommended temperature to set it at, but don't keep this species so go with those that do!

 

[Yvonne G]

Buy one of the thermostat shown in the picture above. You set it for, say, 80F degrees, and the thermostat turns the CHE on and off to maintain that temperature.

 

[Tortoise Love08]

I bought the fourth one- where do you put probe, in the substrate or attach to the wall?

 

[cmacusa3]

I bought the fourth one- where do you put probe, in the substrate or attach to the wall?

I would attach it to the wall just above the substrate.