Anyone keep their torts in a sunroom or florida type room? Pros and cons? I have been thinking about an addition on the back of my house but since I live in ohio I wonder about temp control in such a room....
I don't have one myself, however, a cousin does, they are made with lots of windows so will be cold in the winter months and can be very hot in summer months. They will have to be heated in the cold months and on the sunless days for sure. If it's south facing and you have lots of sunshine in the winter it might be fairly easy to heat. Opened windows in the summer will help to keep it cool, or you may have to use air conditioner.
Pros are whilst ever the sun is shining no matter the temp outside it will get warm, cons are when the sun is not shining it will be cool so heat needed for those days. Glass is same as reptiles needs a heat source to warm through. You will be able to grow tomatoes,peppers,cucumber etc year round as long as you have a heat source for those cloudy cold days.Anyone keep their torts in a sunroom or florida type room? Pros and cons? I have been thinking about an addition on the back of my house but since I live in ohio I wonder about temp control in such a room....
Years ago and some still do people used to use paraffin heaters in the winter to grow veg over here, obviously you can't use these with torts but the point is if you heat it things will grow so why not grow thing that tort and yourselfs can eat. Put your heat source on a thermostat so it doesn't get like a sauna when the sun is shining.Pros are whilst ever the sun is shining no matter the temp outside it will get warm, cons are when the sun is not shining it will be cool so heat needed for those days. Glass is same as reptiles needs a heat source to warm through. You will be able to grow tomatoes,peppers,cucumber etc year round as long as you have a heat source for those cloudy cold days.