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I have an outdoor patio on which I have an outdoor tortoise enclosure. Its basically a 6x2 foot box, which has about six to eight inches of dirt in it and Russian tortoise mix weeds growing in most of it. There is a ten inch water dish that always has an inch of water in it. I have two wooden boxes for hides, one on each side. The boxes are wooden wine cases, and are made of thin wood. The entire enclosure is on bricks that keep it about two inches off the patio floor, which is carpeted with dark green outdoor carpet. The carpet gets pretty hot in the sun, that's one of the reasons I raised the enclosure off of the patio floor.
So its basically just a big outdoor planter set up for a 5 inch Russian tortoise on a second floor balcony. For four or five hours the entire enclosure gets full sun, with the wooden boxes an escape from direct sunlight, but I'm worried that the whole enclosure will get too hot this week when we will be having 90 days.
Does anyone have any ideas for making a hide that will stay cooler than a wooden box with very thin walls? Is my tortoise in danger of dying if he can't escape the heat? I have a nice indoor enclosure but I only have been bringing him in when its really gonna rain hard since its been warm.
So its basically just a big outdoor planter set up for a 5 inch Russian tortoise on a second floor balcony. For four or five hours the entire enclosure gets full sun, with the wooden boxes an escape from direct sunlight, but I'm worried that the whole enclosure will get too hot this week when we will be having 90 days.
Does anyone have any ideas for making a hide that will stay cooler than a wooden box with very thin walls? Is my tortoise in danger of dying if he can't escape the heat? I have a nice indoor enclosure but I only have been bringing him in when its really gonna rain hard since its been warm.