Littleredfootbigredheart
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Being from the forest floor, red foots don’t receive as much uv in the wild as some tortoises do, no wild tortoise has access to 12 hours of uv, they have around 4 at most so it’s fine to reduce once you have the proper uv.So I just was thinking if my little under a year old red foot tortoise is sleeping 18 to 22 hours a day how can he or she get enough UV exposure. I have the UV obviously on around 14 to 16 hours a day. Its fluctuating because I haven't set up my timers yet and I also have to mist alot because I haven't got my mister yet? Any helpful suggestions on that. Without my closed set up it's hard to keep the humidity up just putting water in corners ect.
I'm just trying to meet the needs of my little one.
Thank you, 😊
I wouldn’t recommend using any misters/foggers, they can make the air too wet, causing respiratory problems, if you need to keep spraying for now until your topper comes that’s ok coupled with the pouring. Mix your substrate up.
Ultimately to maintain your humidity where it needs to be for your little one, you’ll need that topper, so the sooner the better🙂 I wouldn’t want to be spraying long term because having that top layer constantly wet will leave them prone to a fungal infection.
In the meantime do you have a photo of your enclosure? I’m just thinking you may be able to partly cover some of it with tin foil until your set up, that should temporarily help things