Humidity

[kball]

What's ideal humitity for a sulcata

 

[JoesMum]

Are we talking adult or baby?

 

[kball]

Baby

 

[alex_ornelas]

80 and above

 

[rearlpettway]

80 and above


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[Dizisdalife]

With overhead basking lamps and heating elements to keep our little one warm and toasty the shell gets dehydrated in a hurry. So does the baby tortoise. To mitigate these conditions, daily soakings, daily shell spraying, an enclosure that maintains 80% relative humidity, and a hiding box that further increase the humidity work together to allow the shell to grow as smooth as possible.

I believe that Tom has stated these need with examples in: http://www.tortoiseforum.org/threads/how-to-raise-a-healthy-sulcata-or-leopard-version-2-0.79895/

To my knowledge, everyone that has followed his advice, starting with a hatchling, has been happy with the results. Others that have started with an older tortoise, a baby or yearling, but adopted the same type of care as he has suggested have had good results.

 

[Cowboy_Ken]

Kball, here is my 20 month old sulcata that has been, and continues to be raised with the hot and humid method mentioned in these previous posts.

 

[kball]

What about an older sulcata

 

[24christina24]

I can't get the humidity above 50.What should I do to get the humidity higher?

 

[Tom]

What about an older sulcata

Depends largely on how they are housed. For my older ones that still have a lot of growing to do, I keep their heated night boxes at around 60-70% humidity, but they walk around in the dry air here all day. This seems to do the trick.

 

[Tom]

I can't get the humidity above 50.What should I do to get the humidity higher?

http://www.tortoiseforum.org/threads/closed-chambers.32333/

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