Hey everyone,
New to the Tortise forum here and have an important question. I have a California Desert Tortoise who the vet says is roughly 3 to 5 years old. I have had him since July and I live in the San Gabriel Mountains area (La Verne to be specific) I have put the tortoise down for Hibernation in the garage in side of a shoe box full of news paper. That box is inside of a larger box also with newspaper. When I put him in, It was below 60degrees consistently. Now here is the question: this whole week is supposed to be around 75 degrees outside, will that interfere with the hibernation and should I be concerned at this point? I've checked on him and he's still in the shell, no pee in the box (although a small #2 which i removed) THanks for any help, really don't want him to get hurt the first time i hibernate him.
New to the Tortise forum here and have an important question. I have a California Desert Tortoise who the vet says is roughly 3 to 5 years old. I have had him since July and I live in the San Gabriel Mountains area (La Verne to be specific) I have put the tortoise down for Hibernation in the garage in side of a shoe box full of news paper. That box is inside of a larger box also with newspaper. When I put him in, It was below 60degrees consistently. Now here is the question: this whole week is supposed to be around 75 degrees outside, will that interfere with the hibernation and should I be concerned at this point? I've checked on him and he's still in the shell, no pee in the box (although a small #2 which i removed) THanks for any help, really don't want him to get hurt the first time i hibernate him.