Night temps

[Jeff 619]

Can I play around with night temp? I am thinking of letting the temp go in to the low 70s at night only. Day temp will hover around 90 to 95. Humidy never falls below 65%.
Dipper/mable are over year old and over 500g and over 4”.
Thanks

 

[TechnoCheese]

I definitely wouldn’t. It shouldn’t be going lower than 80 at any times.

 

[Maro2Bear]

Can I play around with night temp? I am thinking of letting the temp go in to the low 70s at night only. Day temp will hover around 90 to 95. Humidy never falls below 65%.
Dipper/mable are over year old and over 500g and over 4”.
Thanks

• I guess I’m just wondering why you would want to mess around with temps that have been proven to work well?
• https://tortoiseforum.org/threads/how-to-raise-a-healthy-sulcata-or-leopard-version-2-0.78361/

 

[Tom]

This has already been done and we know what the result is likely to be. Some of them, some of the time, seem to tolerate the lower temperatures and survive them. Some of the get reparatory infections and die.

None of them get sick or die if you keep them warm.

Why risk it? For what purpose? Keep them warm and keep them healthy.

 

[Jeff 619]

Ok, that solves that.
Thanks

The next question is for how long? Is there an age when I can drop the temp or do I have to keep the night temps at 80 as long as they live even as they start to be out side all the time.
I’m just curious.

Thanks

 

[Tom]

Ok, that solves that.
Thanks

The next question is for how long? Is there an age when I can drop the temp or do I have to keep the night temps at 80 as long as they live even as they start to be out side all the time.
I’m just curious.

Thanks

When mine move outdoors, I keep the night temp set at about 86 so that they have a warmer area during the cooler days of winter. In summer when temps are near or over 100 every day, and things are extremely dry with extremely low humidity, I set the night temps to around 70. In more humid areas, this often leads to sickness or death. Here it can work. If day temps are only getting near the 80s, I keep the night temp in the boxes at 80.