At the current moment till Christmas my baby leopard is in a 10 gal old fish tank I know that alone isn't good for her to be in so as soon as Christmas comes she'll be getting an upgrade however right now Zarha's humidy keeps dropping pretty quickly and we have just been constantly spraying the substrate with water anyone know the best (cheapish) asceticly pleasing way to keep the humidity up? I've heard a water bottle with holes in it could help but how would I make it fit in with the enclosure?
Humidity
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Cherryshell
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Is the top of the enclosure closed or is it open?
Try wetting the soil and close the top with aluminum foil...how are you keeping the temperature up?
A 10 gallon is going to be very hard to get the temps right. Get a cheap 50 gallon plastic tote box so the tort can have the proper enclosure now for little money. Even a pop up portable green house is under 50 bucks and can last a couple years if you get a good sized one. The tort needs room to walk, a hide, water and food dishes and to be able to have temps from 80 day and night and a 95-100 basking spot. That's impossible in a 10 gallon. Please read the caresheet below.
Thread 'The Best Way To Raise A Sulcata, Leopard, Or Star Tortoise' https://www.tortoiseforum.org/threa...se-a-sulcata-leopard-or-star-tortoise.181503/
Thread 'The Best Way To Raise A Sulcata, Leopard, Or Star Tortoise' https://www.tortoiseforum.org/threa...se-a-sulcata-leopard-or-star-tortoise.181503/
I'll be getting a much larger enclosure soon as I have now learned that the current one is much too small for her.
She has a really good headlamp right now that is keeping it at a good temperature I will be getting a larger area soon for her so she can have all the preferred areas in the enclosure.
It's one with a screen top so cats can't stick their nosey paws in and harm her but there Is still ventilation.
The screen top that is made for aquariums block a large percentage of the uvb ray's. As soon as you can get that bigger enclosure and make it a closed chamber so all lights and heat are inside the enclosure and the enclosure is closed up. Enough air gets in when you open and close the enclosure for feeding, watering, soaking etc and they are not air tight anyway.
Alright I believe I'll be making my own custom top for it by cutting out the middle of the top it comes with to put a screen peice in any recommendations on how I should do that? Along with getting the heat and UVB to be set inside the enclosure?
I'm going to see if @Yvonne G will post some of her pics of how she added a frame to some of her enclosures to hang lights etc and to drape plastic to make a closed chamber.
Alright thanks for all the help I just wanna make my tortoise the happiest she can be.
