I've been reading (as something general) in these forums that young sulcatas should be kept in humid environments. I think this is a bad Idea. Yes it is true that they are born during the rainy season but the rainy season only lasts about 1 month and most of that time they spend it inside the egg (while processing that bag of food i don't know the english word for) or struggling to get out of the egg or hiding somewhere.
The other 10 months of the year tend to be quite arid and with low water.
Depending on where you plan to grow them i'd suggest not to keep them in humid environments, but the total oposite. Relatively Warm and with humidity values never exceeding 35%.
Yes, it is true, humidity is something good for tortoises. It avoids pyramidism , it's healthy for them. But i'd strongly suggest not to oversoak nor overexpose young torts to these kind of climates unless you really go pro on them (and I mean pro as in real pro, with separate boxes for eath one and monitoring conditions for each box, gtiving them sun and so on...).
Young torts are not smart. They will spend more time than the adequate on the wrong humid part. They will easily catch a cold or mucus which may lead to more infectious and or potentially dangerous illnessess.
Young Torts can perfectly be kept in dry environments as well as humid environments. They are designed to withstand both humidity and aridness. But even though they spend most of their time hiding under rocks or in humider conditions. These conditions tend not to be so humid as they might look like throughout the year. However, for us normal householders, (and here is the key) mimicking humid conditions they would be safe on is much harder than mimicking arid conditions.
In my opinion, what I do with mine. I tend to keep them in relatively arid conditions. They also have a small plate with water where they can soak themselves whenever they feel the need (and trust me, they do).
In my setup, I used an IKEA detolf glass cabinet, flipped it horizontally, add a mixture of sand and earth and boom. The excellent terrarium for just under 50 usd.
humidity is kept normally at around 30%. Which is what I normally get anywhere around my town (Valencia, Spain) right next to the mediterranean.
I keep control of everything using a Raspberry Pi (a micro computer that costs around 35 usd) connected to a thermal sensor that activates a heat lamp whenever temperature goes bellow 20ºC (which is roughly 70ºF) (an easy formula to convert Farenheit to Celcius is subtract 30 and then divide by 2). (you can also use google).
The raspberry pi also hosts a web server that displays the information in real time. You can access it here -> http://troindx.noip.me/
that webpage is just my small terrarium controller displaying humidity and temperature values (everything is in Spanish cos... well.. i'm Spanish)
anyways,
The other 10 months of the year tend to be quite arid and with low water.
Depending on where you plan to grow them i'd suggest not to keep them in humid environments, but the total oposite. Relatively Warm and with humidity values never exceeding 35%.
Yes, it is true, humidity is something good for tortoises. It avoids pyramidism , it's healthy for them. But i'd strongly suggest not to oversoak nor overexpose young torts to these kind of climates unless you really go pro on them (and I mean pro as in real pro, with separate boxes for eath one and monitoring conditions for each box, gtiving them sun and so on...).
Young torts are not smart. They will spend more time than the adequate on the wrong humid part. They will easily catch a cold or mucus which may lead to more infectious and or potentially dangerous illnessess.
Young Torts can perfectly be kept in dry environments as well as humid environments. They are designed to withstand both humidity and aridness. But even though they spend most of their time hiding under rocks or in humider conditions. These conditions tend not to be so humid as they might look like throughout the year. However, for us normal householders, (and here is the key) mimicking humid conditions they would be safe on is much harder than mimicking arid conditions.
In my opinion, what I do with mine. I tend to keep them in relatively arid conditions. They also have a small plate with water where they can soak themselves whenever they feel the need (and trust me, they do).
In my setup, I used an IKEA detolf glass cabinet, flipped it horizontally, add a mixture of sand and earth and boom. The excellent terrarium for just under 50 usd.
humidity is kept normally at around 30%. Which is what I normally get anywhere around my town (Valencia, Spain) right next to the mediterranean.
I keep control of everything using a Raspberry Pi (a micro computer that costs around 35 usd) connected to a thermal sensor that activates a heat lamp whenever temperature goes bellow 20ºC (which is roughly 70ºF) (an easy formula to convert Farenheit to Celcius is subtract 30 and then divide by 2). (you can also use google).
The raspberry pi also hosts a web server that displays the information in real time. You can access it here -> http://troindx.noip.me/
that webpage is just my small terrarium controller displaying humidity and temperature values (everything is in Spanish cos... well.. i'm Spanish)
anyways,
