New enclosure

[Luis Taveras0]

Hi Luis, just following up to see if you had a chance to check your temps and humidity on your baby turtles home?

You mean her enclosure?

 

[PJay]

You mean her enclosure?

Yes, that's right. Your hatchling needs to have warmth and humidity to stay healthy. It's best to have an area in the enclosure at 84 f and another area in the enclosure that is 5 or 6 degrees cooler. If you cant provide both then try to keep the whole enclosure at 84 f. Either way, hatchlings do best at 80% humidity. Our houses get so dry this time of year when its cold out and we run heaters inside. You are so creative and Im excited to see if you have thought of a way to keep the enclosure moist and the humidity up.

 

[Luis Taveras0]

Yes, that's right. Your hatchling needs to have warmth and humidity to stay healthy. It's best to have an area in the enclosure at 84 f and another area in the enclosure that is 5 or 6 degrees cooler. If you cant provide both then try to keep the whole enclosure at 84 f. Either way, hatchlings do best at 80% humidity. Our houses get so dry this time of year when its cold out and we run heaters inside. You are so creative and Im excited to see if you have thought of a way to keep the enclosure moist and the humidity up.

Well what I do is I have a new heat pad underneath her enclosure to heat things up and a heat rock and in my room I have a heater at night I use a towel to cover up the entire enclosure

 

[PJay]

Well what I do is I have a new heat pad underneath her enclosure to heat things up and a heat rock and in my room I have a heater at night I use a towel to cover up the entire enclosure

Ok, so I can tell you are reading the advice you got from the forum and are using things you find around the house to try to take care of your hatchling. That's great! The towel will help increase the humidity a little bit at night. Do you know how hot the substrate over the heat pad gets during the day and at night when the towel is over the enclosure? It's important to know the temperature.

 

[Luis Taveras0]

so this is what I use in order to keep the humidity high at night I cover up the entire enclosure with a spongebob and Patrick towel

 

[PJay]

How is your turtle doing, still active and eating? I'm starting to miss my box turtles. They are in hibernation. It's nice to have a break from feeding and cleaning, but I start to miss them after a few weeks. Do you have any updated pictures of your turtle?

 

[Luis Taveras0]

How is your turtle doing, still active and eating? I'm starting to miss my box turtles. They are in hibernation. It's nice to have a break from feeding and cleaning, but I start to miss them after a few weeks. Do you have any updated pictures of your turtle?

My box turtle is fine it's still active but it's gotten really cold here so I had to take measures to heat up the room my tort is staying in