Warm room slapped together.

[spiderreyy]

It rained hard and got cold today. I came home to find my desert tortoise sitting at ther entrance to his 6 foot tunnel, looking miserable. I saw that his tunnel flooded and caved in. Seems the driveway drains right into his burrow. i let him into the garage for now. I needed to slap a warm room together for the young sulcatas. This is what I got done today useing lumber lying around the yard. hopefully I can finish it up tommrow and get power to it.

The roof will pop right off for easy access.

 

[lynnedit]

Wow, nice work. I look forward to the final product! With more pics, of course.

 

[Torty Mom]

Looking good, wanna make 2

 

[spiderreyy]

Ive got plety of wood,. Lets see how this comes out.

 

[dmarcus]

Nothing like building with scrap wood...

 

[Torty Mom]

Aww your a sweetie!!!!

 

[ascott]

Cool box!!....hey, what are you going to do for the CDT? You going to make him a sleeping box for the winter toooooo

 

[Timmytort]

San Dimas High School football rules. Sorry I couldn't resist the most excellent Wild Stallions reference! Looks good

 

[spiderreyy]

Not much got done today. Roofed the house and put a heater in the enclosure because its to cold for the torts. They came out of thier hole pretty quick once they felt the new warmth.

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Im gonna make the cdt a wooden box pretty quickly, as I think he might be getting ready to take a nap again. Last year he napped about a month after I brought him home. He slept on the patio in an upside down plastic storage box. It was screwed to a piece of plywood with a door cut out. When he started his nap I taped the door shut and poured a bunch of shreaded paper over him.

This was his first house.

This was his second. i gave it to my son for his torts when mine dug that six foot hole.

 

[spiderreyy]

almost done.

 

[byerssusan]

Awesome. Really nice work.

 

[SteveP]

Very nice!

 

[lynnedit]

If that is slapping a warm room together, I would like to see what happens when you take your time!
I like the tunnel,what is it?
Nice.

 

[ascott]

very cool.....it must be awesome to not have to worry about pooling water I like the tunnel too

Beautiful tortoises....

 

[spiderreyy]

Thanx guys. The tunnel is a plastic sewer pipe . I think its a 12 inch wide pipe. It was about 12 feet long when the guys next door gave it to me. They were building a school and seemed to be done when I asked for it. I was surprised when they said yes. It was very heavy. I cut it in half 2 ways and gave some to my son for his torts. It served as a house for my torts till it got to cold. So I removed the cap that I put on the end and made it into a tunnel to a warm dry home for the winter.

 

[spiderreyy]

it warmed up and I let the little ones out.

Also had time to work on the new largewr enclosure to go with the new warm house.

My son brought his 2 torts over to stay for a while since its colder in Fontana and he has no warm set up yet.

 

[lynnedit]

Definitely need follow up pics on the new enclosure, looks very promising, and big!

 

[jackrat]

Looks great. Good work.

 

[evlinLoutries]

good job..

really2 inspire me..