Hello everyone,
I have been keeping and breeding Hermans, both Westerns and Eastern for quite some time, about 14 years, but had an interesting discussion with someone yesterday that made me think.
I have got spacious enclosures, all facing South with additional heating for my Hermannis ssp. but i still have a lot of space outside that is basically in full shade throughout the day where I was planning to build additional enclosures that should act as a sort of 'care centre' ( don't know the proper English word )
The setup would be as per the ones I have now, so about 15m2 for 1.2 with additional heating in the greenhouse. The greenhouses now maintain +22c during the season with 2 additional ceramic heaters to 35c to bask. The only thing i would add to the enclosures that would come in the shade is a uvb bulb type Arcadia D5 12% or something.
What do you guys think? Considering the following
Keep them outside in full shade, with additonal UVB with spacious enclosures OR keep them inside in smaller enclosures. I do live in Belgium, so spring kicks in quite late, usually beginning of May. My animals wake up somewhere around mid March in their greenhouses. Then I close off the greenhouse, switch the lights on so it maintains that 22c+ so what do you guys think? Feasible or not?
I would always prefer the outside enclosure but very keen to know how you guys feel about this.
Picture of 1 of my enclosures as reference.
Cheers,
Koen
I have been keeping and breeding Hermans, both Westerns and Eastern for quite some time, about 14 years, but had an interesting discussion with someone yesterday that made me think.
I have got spacious enclosures, all facing South with additional heating for my Hermannis ssp. but i still have a lot of space outside that is basically in full shade throughout the day where I was planning to build additional enclosures that should act as a sort of 'care centre' ( don't know the proper English word )
The setup would be as per the ones I have now, so about 15m2 for 1.2 with additional heating in the greenhouse. The greenhouses now maintain +22c during the season with 2 additional ceramic heaters to 35c to bask. The only thing i would add to the enclosures that would come in the shade is a uvb bulb type Arcadia D5 12% or something.
What do you guys think? Considering the following
Keep them outside in full shade, with additonal UVB with spacious enclosures OR keep them inside in smaller enclosures. I do live in Belgium, so spring kicks in quite late, usually beginning of May. My animals wake up somewhere around mid March in their greenhouses. Then I close off the greenhouse, switch the lights on so it maintains that 22c+ so what do you guys think? Feasible or not?
I would always prefer the outside enclosure but very keen to know how you guys feel about this.
Picture of 1 of my enclosures as reference.
Cheers,
Koen