New outdoor enclosure..

[taquito23]

So, we just built this for our TTBT. She has been inside for a year and we see her every couple of weeks. We also noticed that the soil was much warmer 4 inches down than the surface of the soil inside.

So, today we finished her outdoor environment. Is about 6 inches deep with about 6 inch of wall. We took her old enclosure and put it outside overnight so she can acclimate to the out doors. It’s 85 out side and 83 inside. I figured that was to much of a difference.

This will be our first outdoor pet. Does any one have a list of things we should pay attention to and things that are totally normal? Like not seeing her for a few days? Always stay I hidden?

She’s probably right around 3 inches from front of shell to back of shell and we have had her for right about a year.

The new one is the one with plants and the old one has the “predator protection” lid sitting on top for the night until we move her.

The plan was to see if she’ll come out tomorrow and then just swap her over with out making her to mad.


Thanks! Sorry for the long winded post.

Location is Dallas Texas.

 

[The_Four_Toed_Edward]

Maybe @Yvonne G can comment on your enclosure? What age is your turtle?

 

[taquito23]

Maybe @Yvonne G can comment on your enclosure? What age is your turtle?

It sure. We’ve had her for a year. Don’t know anything about her before that other than she might have been wild.

But again, I don’t know for sure. She was given to us by someone in OK. Here is a photo of her.

 

[wellington]

Hard to tell the size of her but the enclosure is way too small.
If she were a hatching the enclosure would be fine except missing a pool. She's not a hatchling and needs much bigger. She also needs a small pool/container of water she can swim in. Boxies spend a lot of time in the water. Hatchings are raised mostly in water.
Sorry but it needs much improvements.

 

[taquito23]

Hard to tell the size of her but the enclosure is way too small.
If she were a hatching the enclosure would be fine except missing a pool. She's not a hatchling and needs much bigger. She also needs a small pool/container of water she can swim in. Boxies spend a lot of time in the water. Hatchings are raised mostly in water.
Sorry but it needs much improvements.

Kind of figured that. We are limited to our balcony apartment size for now. She came out this morning so we moved her into the new one.

The plan is to go bigger, just can’t recreated the outside weather inside our house. We think she was wild when she was given to us. And out apartment is very picky about what’s on the balcony. This is a “garden with a squirrel protector on top”….

Doing the best we can.