robyn.gaw
New Member
Hi. Today I got my first ever hermann tortoise and it is still very small and young. I don’t know the exact age of him but i’m guessing a few months. I need help on which time to turn on the lamps in my tortoises enclosure. I still go to school so obviously on school days I get up and leave much earlier than i would get up on the weekends. I leave my house at 7:30am on a school morning along with my parents for work so no one else is there to turn the lamps on so I know i need to turn them on before i leave. But do they need to be turned on at the same time every day because i know they have to be 12 hours on and 12 hours off however, i really don’t want to be waking up at 7:30am even on weekends to turn on the lamps. Can someone help me and give me advice as i am very very new to this? Also Im assuming that even if my tortoise goes to sleep before i turn of the lamps i should just keep them on until my tortoise gets used to what time they go on and off?