I finished setting up our RTs new tort table. It's 6ft by almost 3ft. The left-hand side has a built in hide box that is 1 ft deep.
It's built of oak and oak ply, vinyl floor, flagstone for basking. Substrate is 4-5 inches of coconut coir w/ playsand (deeper in the hide box - 7-8 inches). There's a plastic box with organic soil that I put some seeds in. The water dish is the bottom of a bought pie.
I planted some pots with real plants: a jade plant, a spider plant, a prayer plant, and a Christmas cactus, as well as some little succulents from our garden. I fully expect them to be nibbled on, and am ok with that...
The torts moved in this evening, walked around a few times, then dug in and went to bed.
Our friend who built it is going to build a dresser to go underneath, too. I'm so happy to have a 'pretty' tort table now... we figured, the torts will live for the rest of our life (and beyond?), so their enclosure shouldn't be an eye sore...
It's built of oak and oak ply, vinyl floor, flagstone for basking. Substrate is 4-5 inches of coconut coir w/ playsand (deeper in the hide box - 7-8 inches). There's a plastic box with organic soil that I put some seeds in. The water dish is the bottom of a bought pie.
I planted some pots with real plants: a jade plant, a spider plant, a prayer plant, and a Christmas cactus, as well as some little succulents from our garden. I fully expect them to be nibbled on, and am ok with that...
The torts moved in this evening, walked around a few times, then dug in and went to bed.
Our friend who built it is going to build a dresser to go underneath, too. I'm so happy to have a 'pretty' tort table now... we figured, the torts will live for the rest of our life (and beyond?), so their enclosure shouldn't be an eye sore...
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