New juvenile enclosure.

[Christiaan]

Just finished building an outdoor enclosure for my small Redfoots it's a 5x5 and it hold 4 of the little guys 2 cherrys and 2 reds

 

[Christiaan]

Holds*

 

[ZEROPILOT]

With those blocks you are using, it would be simple to double the width of that enclosure. I would.
Also, make sure that a portion of it...Maybe as much as 50% gets shade. It would be easy for little ones to overheat in full sun with so little cover.

 

[Christiaan]

Although the shad did not appear in the picture behind the rear wall there are some palms which give about 30% shade all day also around the edges there is about a 1 foot ring of shade that is available 24/7. I would've loved to make the enclosure bigger but I had to make due with what I had.

Any suggestions as to anything I should add to make it more pleasant for the little guys?

 

[itiswhatitis]

Looks good !!! I'd put the food in a dish though. Anything to keep from eating the substrate.

 

[ZEROPILOT]

I had a setup very similar to that a while ago and I also used a garden hose with a fine sprinkler attached to it to "rain" on the tortoises for a treat on a hot afternoon.
Redfoot LOVE the rain!

 

[Christiaan]

I try to hose them down everyday unless I'm at work and as for the food bowl I used one when they were hatchlings but I'm trying to simulate foraging so whenever it's feeding time the location is always changed.

 

[SarahChelonoidis]

If you want the stimulation, best to just move the food dish around. Cut up pieces of food on the ground cause them to eat substrate - natural foraging involves them biting growing things (leaves, mushrooms) that are generally not totally flush to the ground.

 

[Christiaan]

I actually went to Home Depot after work and bought a large dish for just that reason.

Any more suggestions as to how I can make life easier for these little guys? I noticed one of them had some pyramiding and I'm not too sure how to combat that.