PattyWarren
New Member
Hi everyone,
Today I recieved a tortoise from a family member who no longer wants their tort. I am going into this blind and have already built a tortoise table which I hope is suitable (I should have researched before!). They have given me one heat lamp, a water bowl, a log, some slate and a very small amount of compressed grass pellets.
I have dug up some soil from my garden, sieved it and placed it in the bedding area so he can burrow as I think this is what these tortoises like to do.
I am looking for your advice on how to set up and layout its enclosure best. All ideas are welcome. I hope that it will be okay for a day or two walking around on the hard surface. What substrate would be best?
I think it is a Russian Tortoise and it is roughly 5" I havent had chance to measure it properly yet because it is sleeping currently.
While it was awake it climbed up the ramp and explored, ate a petunia flower, sat in the log before going to sleep.
Here is the enclosure I built:
Oh and the plant up at the top is a boston fern (which I think is safe) for decoration while I figure out the layout.
Today I recieved a tortoise from a family member who no longer wants their tort. I am going into this blind and have already built a tortoise table which I hope is suitable (I should have researched before!). They have given me one heat lamp, a water bowl, a log, some slate and a very small amount of compressed grass pellets.
I have dug up some soil from my garden, sieved it and placed it in the bedding area so he can burrow as I think this is what these tortoises like to do.
I am looking for your advice on how to set up and layout its enclosure best. All ideas are welcome. I hope that it will be okay for a day or two walking around on the hard surface. What substrate would be best?
I think it is a Russian Tortoise and it is roughly 5" I havent had chance to measure it properly yet because it is sleeping currently.
While it was awake it climbed up the ramp and explored, ate a petunia flower, sat in the log before going to sleep.
Here is the enclosure I built:
Oh and the plant up at the top is a boston fern (which I think is safe) for decoration while I figure out the layout.