My Russian Tortoises ❤️

Janelle Green

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image.jpeg Built my babies an outdoor fall/winter enclosure to get a few hours sometimes. I built it in the rain and I'm soaking wet and cold now lol so they better love it. The big rock is a rock cave that they can enter on either side and also climb on top and bask in the sunlight image.jpeg
 

Janelle Green

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Those will work. What are they made out of? Is that wood or plastic?
A very thick plastic , their called flood tables or something like that gardeners use them and has 2 holes at bottom for drainage when it rains and snows so substrate doesn't get bacteria and start smelling
 

Janelle Green

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and yes they work great ! Franklin loves his and I put a barrier around his to make sure he can't get out
 

leigti

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Nice. Look like they would work well. A hardware cloth lid and it would be predator proof, pretty well anyway.
 

Janelle Green

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Nice. Look like they would work well. A hardware cloth lid and it would be predator proof, pretty well anyway.
Great idea :) thank you , I'm usually outside most the time when their outside and what's nice is I can see both the enclosures out of my kitchen Windows cuz I have floor to ceiling Windows . I am going to add garden wooden fencing around both as well
 

Janelle Green

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Better picture of my girls outdoor enclosure . Today it's rainy and cold so they can't go and explore their new enclosure image.jpeg
 

Marcus Harrison

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I love it I am going to get my sticks out and come up with something, great idea ! What glue did you use? I think I have super glue and rubber cement
I avoided glue. If she eats it then that's terrible. It also smells quite bad so I didn't do that, I used nails and screws. If you are going to use glue be careful, she will try to eat it
 

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If you hot glue the popsicle sticks and then nail them to the edge it seems to be really sturdy and work great. My tort hasn't even noticed the glue. I can attach a picture later, if you want. And @Janelle Green, I still love your photo, but I was in a weird mood last night and picked "baby" pictures. I hope you aren't offended. :( Sorry.
 

Janelle Green

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If you hot glue the popsicle sticks and then nail them to the edge it seems to be really sturdy and work great. My tort hasn't even noticed the glue. I can attach a picture later, if you want. And @Janelle Green, I still love your photo, but I was in a weird mood last night and picked "baby" pictures. I hope you aren't offended. :( Sorry.
Not at all! And perfect would love to see some photos :)
 
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