I moved to Oregon from Fresno...I love it...here is how my torts are set up...Mary Knobbins sleeps inside this box with a heat mat, and you can see the heater for ambient heat. It stays 85 degrees even with snow outside. That funky hanging is the 100 watt basking light. Because she can go outside her basking light is a 100 watt incandescent bulb. I open her doggie door very day. She can go out if she wants.
The shed is 20'X12' heated and insulated. Mary goes in and out freely.
Mary's favorite basking spot...
If you have never had a large tort like that...you have a lot good and bad coming...but you need to know how to keep a 100 pound bulldozer...he needs heat and room to walk thru the winter. I don't like just a night box. Mine have a hotel instead (sorta)...Everybody keeps a big tort differently but they still need, 85 degrees 100% of the time, a water source a safe sleeping spot...stay and ask questions cuz you don't realize it yet but you are in for a time...
The shed is 20'X12' heated and insulated. Mary goes in and out freely.
Mary's favorite basking spot...
If you have never had a large tort like that...you have a lot good and bad coming...but you need to know how to keep a 100 pound bulldozer...he needs heat and room to walk thru the winter. I don't like just a night box. Mine have a hotel instead (sorta)...Everybody keeps a big tort differently but they still need, 85 degrees 100% of the time, a water source a safe sleeping spot...stay and ask questions cuz you don't realize it yet but you are in for a time...