Hi everyone! So I'm thinking maybe 2 years in the future right now but I am wanting to be really prepared!
When we move back to BC (home) in a year, and I'm done school in 2 years, I want to build an outdoor enclosure for my Cherry Head.
Where I'm from in British Columbia (Canada) it is a temperate rainforest, and so it literally rains for 80% of the year. I think there is maybe 1 month of the year where it doesn't rain at all, and it's on and off the rest of the time, ha.
The winters usually hover around 0C, coldest it ever gets is MAYbe -10C. With those temps she'd be inside for the winters, but winters are short in BC.
So with it raining a crap ton and being super humid and mild temperatures it would be the perfect environment for a Cherry Head for most of the year!
I DO have a few questions though.
What are the coldest temps that these guys should be left outside? I will be locking her in a secure house at night since we have racoons and opposums and coyotes and cougars and bears and birds of prey and basically any other predator you can think of around there, lol. But I want to know when is the point she should be moved in to her winter enclosure indoors.
Second question is, since it DOES rain so much back home (it has been known to rain non-stop for a month straight in the past), I would be worried about it being TOO damp for my tortoise. I have been thinking of ways to have areas of her enclosure with drainage stones and such, as well as her house to have places where she can retreat to to not be sitting in puddles all the time.
And basically, any advice you can give for me to provide the perfect enclosure for my tortoise in an extremely wet place (that can get extremely dry in July/August).
Thanks!!
When we move back to BC (home) in a year, and I'm done school in 2 years, I want to build an outdoor enclosure for my Cherry Head.
Where I'm from in British Columbia (Canada) it is a temperate rainforest, and so it literally rains for 80% of the year. I think there is maybe 1 month of the year where it doesn't rain at all, and it's on and off the rest of the time, ha.
The winters usually hover around 0C, coldest it ever gets is MAYbe -10C. With those temps she'd be inside for the winters, but winters are short in BC.
So with it raining a crap ton and being super humid and mild temperatures it would be the perfect environment for a Cherry Head for most of the year!
I DO have a few questions though.
What are the coldest temps that these guys should be left outside? I will be locking her in a secure house at night since we have racoons and opposums and coyotes and cougars and bears and birds of prey and basically any other predator you can think of around there, lol. But I want to know when is the point she should be moved in to her winter enclosure indoors.
Second question is, since it DOES rain so much back home (it has been known to rain non-stop for a month straight in the past), I would be worried about it being TOO damp for my tortoise. I have been thinking of ways to have areas of her enclosure with drainage stones and such, as well as her house to have places where she can retreat to to not be sitting in puddles all the time.
And basically, any advice you can give for me to provide the perfect enclosure for my tortoise in an extremely wet place (that can get extremely dry in July/August).
Thanks!!