Leopard's daytime enclosure

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How big are the torts? Unless they are hatchlings, they will be able to climb up on the bricks and crawl through the fencing. A good size hatchling may be able too also. Unless the bricks are much taller then they look. It does look nice though
 

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There's hardware cloth covering all the sides, looking at the picture I can see now that it doesn't show up. I'm going to fill in the middle with more dirt so the bricks won't be visible on the inside and they don't be able to climb up on them and flip over.
 

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Got it. I looked several times to be sure of what I was seeing. I am only on an iPhone, but the hardware does not show for me at all.
Knowing that, it should work great.
 

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That looks really good! If he's anything like my leopard though he will spend all his time trying to get through the hardware cloth so you may need to add a sight barrier around the base. I had to do it on mine to make the naught torty calm down. :rolleyes:
 

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That looks really good! If he's anything like my leopard though he will spend all his time trying to get through the hardware cloth so you may need to add a sight barrier around the base. I had to do it on mine to make the naught torty calm down. :rolleyes:
Thank you for mentioning that because I hadn't considered it. I'll probably add some wood around the bottom just in case.
 

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That's quite an attractive addition to your backyard. A visual barrier around the bottom and all your tortoise furniture, and it's a grade A, A #1 tortoise yard.
 
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