Hi everyone.
I want this separate from my "coconut oil" thread. http://www.tortoiseforum.org/index.php?threads/103782/
So if this is the wrong section for this I apologize. In the next week I am renting a nice thermo imaging camera from home Depot. It's not that expensive I found out to rent.
http://www.flir.com/homedepot/
I want to take some thermal images on both my tortoises Nibbles and Pebbles. I want to know the effects of using Extra Virgin coconut oil on my tortoise which has been as often as 2x-3x a week for the last 3.5 months for Nibbles and month and half for Pebbles. I am using a thermal imaging camera which I'll post when I get it. It looks soo cool.
My goal is to see the effects of my coconut oil application have had on the thermoregulation of my tortoises and if it at all affects the way a lamp heats my tortoises using widely bought bulbs like Mercury Vapor, 100w incedesent, and UV tube style bulb. Which is what I have lol.
I am not going to subject them to anything beyond what they already do routine wise it's pretty much like clockwork with them. But I want as accurate as information as possible for the thermal pictures and relating it with my tortoises heating ability (or disability) in relation with my husbandry ways and extra Virgin coconut oil applications under these lamps. I know this sample is very small as it is only 2 tortoises getting recorded but it will at least show me if I am harming them or helping them by doing these applications in a thermo regulatory way. I want to share it with all of you.
So I have narrowed my time frame to capture the heating up process with the camera from after a night of sleep and them waking up to bask. Both bask for awhile in the morning. Everyday like clockwork. Nibbles probably basks until he his in the mid 90s then seeks food. Pebbles on the other hand will feed the second food is there or at least guard it lol regardless of Temps reached.
Nibbles won't eat until he gets nice and warm. Doesn't matter what I taunt him with lol. Pebbles will eat whenever at the moment.
There are a couple reasons I am doing this and I am very curious about a couple things that I am subjecting my tortosies too. Obviously only love and compassion.... but still it tweaks me out about how much coconut oil I apply to them, despite very obvious positive differences (in my opinoin) I have seen since starting these applications.
I kinda got my idea of using Extra Virgin coconut oil from Andy highfield and Francis Baines talk about the dehydrating effects of these lamps. Link: http://www.tortoiseforum.org/index.php?threads/83263/
Start on POST #66
And Francis Baines talk: http://www.tortoiseforum.org/index.php?threads/84606/
About how these lamps produce "unfiltered" IR-A and that tortoises are subjected to that day in and day out for hours on end. Coupled with dangerously low humidity as pointed out by Andy these lamps pose an issue for us keepers. This is because the absence of a atmosphere under indoor lamps means those lamps which emit high levels are 'unfiltered' IR-A don't pass through an atmosphere to become "filtered" which then means the water most available to take is from the tortoises shell and skin. They say it better then I can.
Anyways, I chose to start using the coconut oil applications and doing what I was doing. It's all laid out in my coconut oil thread. So now I am here 3.5 months later after consistent applications ranging between 2x-3x a week and I want to know the best way to proceed on doing this correctly so it can be used possibly to help clarify EVCO and how it affects my tortoises thermal regulation as well as how these lamps heat the tortoise and how fast water is taken.
I'll post all my equipment once I have it. But this is just my start. Any advice is more then welcome.
-Shaun
I want this separate from my "coconut oil" thread. http://www.tortoiseforum.org/index.php?threads/103782/
So if this is the wrong section for this I apologize. In the next week I am renting a nice thermo imaging camera from home Depot. It's not that expensive I found out to rent.
http://www.flir.com/homedepot/
I want to take some thermal images on both my tortoises Nibbles and Pebbles. I want to know the effects of using Extra Virgin coconut oil on my tortoise which has been as often as 2x-3x a week for the last 3.5 months for Nibbles and month and half for Pebbles. I am using a thermal imaging camera which I'll post when I get it. It looks soo cool.
My goal is to see the effects of my coconut oil application have had on the thermoregulation of my tortoises and if it at all affects the way a lamp heats my tortoises using widely bought bulbs like Mercury Vapor, 100w incedesent, and UV tube style bulb. Which is what I have lol.
I am not going to subject them to anything beyond what they already do routine wise it's pretty much like clockwork with them. But I want as accurate as information as possible for the thermal pictures and relating it with my tortoises heating ability (or disability) in relation with my husbandry ways and extra Virgin coconut oil applications under these lamps. I know this sample is very small as it is only 2 tortoises getting recorded but it will at least show me if I am harming them or helping them by doing these applications in a thermo regulatory way. I want to share it with all of you.
So I have narrowed my time frame to capture the heating up process with the camera from after a night of sleep and them waking up to bask. Both bask for awhile in the morning. Everyday like clockwork. Nibbles probably basks until he his in the mid 90s then seeks food. Pebbles on the other hand will feed the second food is there or at least guard it lol regardless of Temps reached.
Nibbles won't eat until he gets nice and warm. Doesn't matter what I taunt him with lol. Pebbles will eat whenever at the moment.
There are a couple reasons I am doing this and I am very curious about a couple things that I am subjecting my tortosies too. Obviously only love and compassion.... but still it tweaks me out about how much coconut oil I apply to them, despite very obvious positive differences (in my opinoin) I have seen since starting these applications.
I kinda got my idea of using Extra Virgin coconut oil from Andy highfield and Francis Baines talk about the dehydrating effects of these lamps. Link: http://www.tortoiseforum.org/index.php?threads/83263/
Start on POST #66
And Francis Baines talk: http://www.tortoiseforum.org/index.php?threads/84606/
About how these lamps produce "unfiltered" IR-A and that tortoises are subjected to that day in and day out for hours on end. Coupled with dangerously low humidity as pointed out by Andy these lamps pose an issue for us keepers. This is because the absence of a atmosphere under indoor lamps means those lamps which emit high levels are 'unfiltered' IR-A don't pass through an atmosphere to become "filtered" which then means the water most available to take is from the tortoises shell and skin. They say it better then I can.
Anyways, I chose to start using the coconut oil applications and doing what I was doing. It's all laid out in my coconut oil thread. So now I am here 3.5 months later after consistent applications ranging between 2x-3x a week and I want to know the best way to proceed on doing this correctly so it can be used possibly to help clarify EVCO and how it affects my tortoises thermal regulation as well as how these lamps heat the tortoise and how fast water is taken.
I'll post all my equipment once I have it. But this is just my start. Any advice is more then welcome.
-Shaun