Table for baby sulcata and russians

[Cardi]

Hello from Poland
I made my new inside enclosure for my tortoises. 4 russians and one young sulcata.
It's 200x200cm with tube and bulb uv, wifi 360 camera to see what happens with them when I'm outside my home. I also have 2 wifi temperature and humid sensors, to see if the humid and temp. is ok. There is also 2 humidifers (in wet area is 80% humidity, in dry is 30-40%). I see everything on my phone everywhere I'm.
Temperature is from 24C to 45C.
They have many hides (wooden tubes under ground, where is more moisture, they also dig holes by themselves)
Everything is my project and 100% made by myselve.
On a top of the tabe is a banana plat which i bring from Africa where i saw natural turtles and tortoises habitats

What You thing about it? (sorry for my english)

 

[Yvonne G]

Hi, and welcome to the Forum!

You did a very nice job on the two tables. Do they have their very own CCTV? Yea!

I'd like to caution on the use of those compact fluorescent bulbs. Maybe in Poland they aren't a problem, but here in the States we've had tortoises come up with eye problems due to those bulbs.

 

[Cardi]

Hi, and welcome to the Forum!

You did a very nice job on the two tables. Do they have their very own CCTV? Yea!

I'd like to caution on the use of those compact fluorescent bulbs. Maybe in Poland they aren't a problem, but here in the States we've had tortoises come up with eye problems due to those bulbs.

Yeah, they have CCTV
I've heard about that bulbs problems, but I use them since 10 years for my russians and everything is ok, so maybe in Poland we have diffrent brands.
I use tube and bulb types at same moment for best results

 

[TechnoCheese]

Very cool looking! However, please keep in mind that one Russian requires a minimum enclosure size of 8x4 feet.

If you are already using a tube bulb, I wouldn’t use the compacts.

 

[Cardi]

Very cool looking! However, please keep in mind that one Russian requires a minimum enclosure size of 8x4 feet.

If you are already using a tube bulb, I wouldn’t use the compacts.

it's only for winter time. In summer they have large area outside
thank you for advice

 

[TechnoCheese]

That really is a cool looking enclosure. Love what you did with the cork rounds.

 

[T Smart]

Wow, that's a beautiful setup you've made! Well done.

 

[Cardi]

maybe here is better to see how it looks like

 

[Cardi]

This little guy was left in the paper box under doors to my tattoo shop.
This is a story of my torts
First torts was my choice. That was 2 little Russians. I bought them something about 10 yrs ago. They are still with me. I made them great enclosure inside and outside. Some lady saw it on a Facebook (my tattoo customer). She was scared becose I told her how tort carrying should looks like and she pleased me to adopt Russian from her. I agreed becose he lived in terrible conditions. From than I had 3 russian torts- Agatka, Ruchaczov and Jakub. After year or two I had phone call: "hello, I want you to take care for tortoise. My children's are bored of him, now they have guinea pig. So you take it or I will leave him in a forrest". (We live in cold climate) that was Russian again, named Alexis. So now I have 4 torts.
I went away to rest in Africa. I feed by hand sea turtles and 200yrs old biggest tortoises on planet. I said to my wife (when we feed biggest male)"hopefully we adopted Russians"
After i got back to Poland, i went to work. I'm tattoo artist. When I was closing my tattoo shop I saw paper box under the door with sign "adopt me!".
I was little scared becose some people don't like me. I imagined that's maybe a bomb or something. After while I decided to open that box. Inside was little sulcata from photo on a top of this post. He, or she had broken she'll, was sick and very scared. That was time of first day in school after summer brake. I think thats why people doesn't want him anymore (and broken shell, so he is not so beautiful like others) So now I have 4 Russians and 1 sulcata which is healthy now (after long treatment) and starts growing fast.
That's crazy
I just wanted to share my story with you, to make you understand why I have this weird table with 4 Russians and Sulcata

 

[Cheryl Hills]

Wow, thank you for caring for them.