MandyV
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Any advice on the orchid fir bark?
The UV you’ve attached here is 14%, you want the 12% option. Hopefully Tom will get back to us on the other monitors, that last one you’ve added in the zoo med brand looks good though!Here is what I was able to find not all are available I tried to go exactly where it looked like you took the screen shot from but not all are available here. I did find the Arcadia kit but it’s a little different than what you showed percentages etc
Those are all fine, I can’t say exactly how much you’ll need, but it personally takes us over 140L to fill our set up😬 we buy bulk bags. See if you can find if those brands do 60/70l bags for you, you’ll probably need a couple. If not I’m hoping another member from the US can chime in for what they use over there, I’ve seen many say they go to garden centres and look for big bags of orchid fir bark, again just read the description on the back to make sure it’s safe🙂Here are two I found also how much do I need?
I was able to find this oneTry typing that in and feel free to send me screenshots of what you find, I’ll try looking into the listings for you, sometimes they don’t come up for me depending on brands because of location.
If you can see in the small print it’s 100% orchid fir bark, with no other media’s added, it should be fine🙂
Ah I see, again perhaps type into Google ‘Arcadia proT5 kit 12%’ it should hopefully come up, it might be listed elsewhere from Amazon for you
Ok got itThose are all fine, I can’t say exactly how much you’ll need, but it personally takes us over 140L to fill our set up😬 we buy bulk bags. See if you can find if those brands do 60/70l bags for you, you’ll probably need a couple. If not I’m hoping another member from the US can chime in for what they use over there, I’ve seen many say they go to garden centres and look for big bags of orchid fir bark, again just read the description on the back to make sure it’s safe🙂
That’s the one you need😊you may want to go 39w depending on size of the enclosure, but you should be ok with the 24w tbh, @Alex and the Redfoot what do you reckon?I was able to find this one
Ok thank you for that I was starting to panic a little. I would much rather take my time and get it right if she isn’t in any danger I can absolutely wait to do it right.I’m going to tag @Alex and the Redfoot too because he’s so much better with the technical side of set ups than me, he might be able to suggest a thermostat/monitors for you and is just generally SO helpful advising on set ups😊
Don’t worry if there’s delays in responses though cause they’re all different time zones, it may delay you ordering some of the stuff, but rest assured your tortoise isn’t in a deadly situation, it’s more that staying in that set up long term won’t do them any good, but it’s better we take our time here making sure you’re getting all the right stuff🙂
Bless you, don’t worry I don’t want you panicking and scrambling to buy everything all at once if some of it won’t do, I’m sorry I can’t advise on all the different brands you’ve included, it’s purely a location issue in that we have different things listed very differently from continent to continent lol. But hopefully we’ll get some more input soon😊Ok thank you for that I was starting to panic a little. I would much rather take my time and get it right if she isn’t in any danger I can absolutely wait to do it right.
The measurements of this look ideal! The only issue I’m potentially seeing, its it appears to have a middle divider thing you have to screw into the middle for the structure of the base, which would be a problem for your guy to navigate around. However I’m wondering if it could be modified in some way or if you could get away with no including that divider at all.I found this one
No problem at all💕Ok great I’m on the right track I’ll do some more looking thank you
There’s definitely no bar at the bottom or in middle of the depth? If it’s just that top bar, I think it’ll work great🙂The bar is only at the top to keep it straight there isn’t an actual divider in the tub itself