I will be moving with my three yellow foots to a first floor apartment. The apartment has some open areas which will get a few hours of sun daily, this is where i plan to build an enclosure for my torts. The area has no garden or soil area, so the floor will be either porcelain tiles o ceramic tiles.
My plan is to build a small pen (16ft x 10ft), perhaps delimiting the tortoise area with a short wooden wall, use some sort of lining on top of the floor to put soil and small plants so the tortoises can roam. At one corner i plan on putting a tortoise box where the torts can sleep or live in the winter.
My main concern is the growth of fungus, or damaging the ceramic/porcelain tiles do to any water getting through and sitting there for months. Also what substrate would be suitable in this case? I would plan on having small plants growing on little containers, to avoid any root and overgrowth issues.
I also want to make it look nice, maybe have it look like a garden area. I just dont want the neighbors complaining that i have a tortoise pen there. So that would be a great idea actually, make a sort of japanese garden type area, where it seems like im just in it for the plants and look, but secretively my tortoises hang out unnoticed hehehe...
thanks for reading, any help or ideas will be GREATLY appreciated!
My plan is to build a small pen (16ft x 10ft), perhaps delimiting the tortoise area with a short wooden wall, use some sort of lining on top of the floor to put soil and small plants so the tortoises can roam. At one corner i plan on putting a tortoise box where the torts can sleep or live in the winter.
My main concern is the growth of fungus, or damaging the ceramic/porcelain tiles do to any water getting through and sitting there for months. Also what substrate would be suitable in this case? I would plan on having small plants growing on little containers, to avoid any root and overgrowth issues.
I also want to make it look nice, maybe have it look like a garden area. I just dont want the neighbors complaining that i have a tortoise pen there. So that would be a great idea actually, make a sort of japanese garden type area, where it seems like im just in it for the plants and look, but secretively my tortoises hang out unnoticed hehehe...
thanks for reading, any help or ideas will be GREATLY appreciated!