TEMPERATURE OF BROODER BOX

[Carol S]

@Tom What temperature do you keep your brooder box at after the tortoise hatches?

 

[Reptile Wise]

Hello Carol S. The perfect temperature for a brooder box? It's a balmy 85-90 degrees Fahrenheit. Anything less, you're playing a dangerous game with your little shelled buddy. Anything more, and you're turning him into a slow-crawling sauna enthusiast. So, 85-90 degrees - it's not just a suggestion, it's a lifeline. Let's keep their tiny world warm and welcoming, just the way they like it.

Hope this helps.

 

[Carol S]

Hello Carol S. The perfect temperature for a brooder box? It's a balmy 85-90 degrees Fahrenheit. Anything less, you're playing a dangerous game with your little shelled buddy. Anything more, and you're turning him into a slow-crawling sauna enthusiast. So, 85-90 degrees - it's not just a suggestion, it's a lifeline. Let's keep their tiny world warm and welcoming, just the way they like it.

Hope this helps.

Thank you for the information.

 

[wellington]

Hello Carol S. The perfect temperature for a brooder box? It's a balmy 85-90 degrees Fahrenheit. Anything less, you're playing a dangerous game with your little shelled buddy. Anything more, and you're turning him into a slow-crawling sauna enthusiast. So, 85-90 degrees - it's not just a suggestion, it's a lifeline. Let's keep their tiny world warm and welcoming, just the way they like it.

Hope this helps.

Starting a thread to introduce yourself and letting us know your experience with tortoises and how you keep yours would help people take your advice a bit more serious.

 

[Reptile Wise]

Starting a thread to introduce yourself and letting us know your experience with tortoises and how you keep yours would help people take your advice a bit more serious.

I tried submitting an introduction in my bio section but I keep getting an error message. I'll try again later. As far as being taken serious, I'm sharing what I know and what I have learned. Others can do whatever they wish with my input. Thanks.

 

[ZEROPILOT]

I may have some knowledge of general Redfoot keeping. But I am still a hatchling novice.
I do not let my tortoises breed.
The few hatchlings I've hatched went directly into a small, makeshift. Warm and humid CLOSED CHAMBER ENCLOSURE on paper towels. Later on fine Orchid bark.
82°-84°
T5 ho 5.0 uvb strip
80% plus humidity 24/7
They all survived and thrived.

 

[Tom]

@Tom What temperature do you keep your brooder box at after the tortoise hatches?

I usually continue using the incubator for a couple few days. At some point, when the yolk sac is mostly absorbed and I'm just waiting for the umbilical scar to fully close, I move their brooder boxes into the enclosure that they will start out in to let them get used to the day/night cycle and the temperature differential between day and night. I usually set the plastic brooder boxes on top of a hide box or something inside the enclosure, unless the enclosure is not already housing babies, in which case I set the brooder box shoe boxes with the lid on directly on the substrate, but not near the basking area.

Temperature then depends on the species. For tropical species, I let it drop to 80 at night and then high 80s to low 90s during the day. For temperate species, I let night temps for hatchlings drop down to between 70-75, but the same warm daytime temps of around 90.