New African Sulcata 2 years old

[MandyV]

Any advice on the orchid fir bark?

 

[Littleredfootbigredheart]

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

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!

As for the orchid bark, again perhaps another US member can point you in the right direction. Have you tried typing in ‘orchid fir bark reptile substrate’?

 

[MandyV]

Let me try that search, and ok on the light I couldn’t find the 12%

 

[Littleredfootbigredheart]

Try 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

 

[Littleredfootbigredheart]

Just a heads up you won’t need both the zoo med and Arcadia uv, just one of either option, I only recommended arcadia personally because I’ve got experience with it, but I know for a fact the zoo med will work for you too🙂

 

[MandyV]

Here are two I found also how much do I need?

 

[Littleredfootbigredheart]

Here are two I found also how much do I need?

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🙂

 

[MandyV]

Try 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

I was able to find this one

 

[MandyV]

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🙂

Ok got it

 

[Littleredfootbigredheart]

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🙂

 

[Littleredfootbigredheart]

I was able to find this one

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?

 

[MandyV]

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🙂

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.

 

[MandyV]

You recommend an 8x4 ft enclosure I’m looking now what height?

 

[MandyV]

I found this one

 

[Littleredfootbigredheart]

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.

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😊

Definitely get your temp gun ordered, that’ll be really good to check your temps, temperature is most important. If your temps are ok, a few more weeks in the current set up whilst you sort things won’t do any major harm🙂

 

[Littleredfootbigredheart]

I found this one

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’d suggest having a further look to see if you can get one with those measurements without that middle bit to screw in, but failing that this could possibly work for you with some adjustments🙂

 

[MandyV]

Ok great I’m on the right track I’ll do some more looking thank you

 

[Littleredfootbigredheart]

Ok great I’m on the right track I’ll do some more looking thank you

No problem at all💕

 

[MandyV]

The bar is only at the top to keep it straight there isn’t an actual divider in the tub itself

 

[Littleredfootbigredheart]

The bar is only at the top to keep it straight there isn’t an actual divider in the tub itself

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🙂