Juagglo's new enclosure

[Nisi]

Thank you to everyone who has giving advice and helped me out the past couple of weeks. With everyone advice here is the finished enclosure.

 

[cmacusa3]

Fantastic job!

 

[Gillian M]

Thank you to everyone who has giving advice and helped me out the past couple of weeks. With everyone advice here is the finished enclosure. View attachment 182865View attachment 182866

Looks great, though I believe it's a bit small. Torts are in need of a lot of space to roam around,as they are used to living in the wild.

What species is your tort? A pic?

 

[Jodie]

Looks good. Is it holding heat and humidity well?

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

It's a great example of a practical, functional but not necessarily very aesthetic enclosure.
Good job.

 

[BrianWI]

Looks practical. I start small myself and upgrade once off to a good start.

 

[cmacusa3]

Looks practical. I start small myself and upgrade once off to a good start.

I agree, all my torts were started off in a smaller enclosure. My leopard babies are either eating or hiding. I think this enclosure is perfect size, my guess is it looks smaller in the picture.

 

[BrianWI]

I agree, all my torts were started off in a smaller enclosure. My leopard babies are either eating or hiding. I think this enclosure is perfect size, my guess is it looks smaller in the picture.

I kind of look at starting enclosures like this: if you give them too much rope, they will hang themselves. Simple, safe controlled environment. They learn to eat, drink, sleep in a hide. They get a bit more durable. Then you upgrade.

 

[Nisi]

It's small but he is very small so it will work for now.. We will build another once he getting bigger. As of now it is holding humidity and heat well.

 

[SarahChelonoidis]

What are you doing for UVB? If one of those bulbs is your uv source, I suspect it is up too high. If you are getting time outside every week, it is not a concern. Cute enclosure. I imagine you'll be building another very soon.

 

[Nisi]

Mercury Sun power UVB If they are any lower they will be to hot. We have 100f under the hot spot and around low 80 through out rest of cage.

 

[SarahChelonoidis]

What distance from the substrate is your MVB? If it's up too high, no UVB will be making it down to tortoise height. I prefer long tube fluorescents for closed chambers because of this reason - it's too hard to get both temperature and uv right with mvbs in closed spaces for me.

 

[Nisi]

We have a 10.0 UVB in the back crossing over the enclosure I will have to measure when I get home.

 

[Nisi]

Sarah the hot spot bulb is 13 1/2 inches high

 

[cmacusa3]

That's definitely within the recommended distance.

 

[Nisi]

Ok thank you.

 

[cmacusa3]

Here is the chart, and it looks like you could even go higher if the temps are too high.