Outdoor DIY Sulcata Tortoise Housing In Cooler Climates
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- Опубликовано: 6 фев 2025
- Join me on a tour of our outdoor heated sulcata home and enclosure for our two big sulcata tortoises! Feel free to ask any questions you might have.
House Information:
Type of Shed Used: Rubbermaid Slide-Lid Shed www.rubbermaid....
Heat sources used in our tortoise house:
250 watt Ceramic Heat Emitter www.amazon.com...
Large Heating Pad
www.amazon.com...
Exo terra repti glow 10.0 UVB desert terrarium light, 30 watt, 36 inches
(we no longer use this)
Exo terra Sun glo 150 watt daylight spot
(we no longer use this)
Exo terra Night glow 40 watt moonlight lamp
Thermometer Unit: La Crosse Technology WS-9160U-IT Digital Thermometer with Indoor/Outdoor Temperaturewww.amazon.com...
***Since publishing this video, we have made a few improvements to adjust to the cool climate:
-We swapped out the nightlight for another 250 watt ceramic bulb
-During the warmer months, we would only have the heating pad and ceramic bulbs on at night. Now since it's much colder, we keep the ceramics and heating pad on 24 hours a day. The day lights (UV, UVB, spot lamps) are still only kept on for about 7 hours a day.
-The temperature was getting down below freezing and the inside of the house dipped too low, so we added an extra layer of carpet liner to the door. Instead of cutting 4 inch sections like before, we only have one split in the runner for them to come in and out. Adding this has constantly kept the temperature about 5-10 degrees warmer at all times! HIGHLY RECOMMEND IF IN A COLD CLIMATE.
The fact that you guys adjusted your home/life for these guys you committed to 20 years ago as ‘pingpong balls’ just shows
how much you care for these animals. I live in Australia and we are only allowed to keep native animals under permit and unfortunately, we have no native Tortoise species. They are my dream animal to own and watching this video was a treat (:
wow that's amazing. after reading this, i appreciate my tortoise a bit more. didn't realize how special they are until I found one. they're not turtles.
Looks good , too bad didn't have camers in house so can check easily, you have a security in yard that would alarm you if an animal or something is roaming that could harm tortoises , both tortoise stay in same house ?How about a smoke alarm in case a wire over heats , hopefully power would kick off first ,, Beautiful Tortoises 🏠🐢🐢💕
Hey thanks for the ideas! And glad to see another tort laying with it's legs strait behind him, my baby girl sleeps like thar! All 4 legs sticking out, spread eagle LOL
Mine too
It’s so cute! Love our Waylon and he does this all the time. Makes me feel like he loves his home and is relaxing and chillin 😎
Thank you so much for your video. It's super good, and I'm so grateful to have found it. There aren't many videos on youtube or anywhere in general, about how to make life more comfortable for sulcatas when they are older. Please, if you can, do an update on the shelter. Please. Thank you so much and blessings.❤❤❤
Hi Stephanie, thank you for sharing this video. I'm in SoCal and have just recently adopted a tortoise and needed help to know what to do for the colder weather. Your video is super helpful and I appreciate you sharing! Thanks.
I have watched this video numerous times. It is helping me prepare for the next steps in properly taking care of my 5 year old sulcata. I live in northern california. Winters are very cold for this creature. Presently my baby is outside during the warmer months but indoors for the winter. Since these guys do not hibernate they require year around attention. He is getting too big to move in and out so it will be important to have a proper outdoor house. Thank you for this video. Much love to your family.
I used your ideas and built a nice she'd for the winter here in Washington. I also put heat lamps with step stones under the heat lamps to retain the heat. Have a nice animal heat pad in the other corner so he has the option to use. Every day I would check on him to make sure he was alright and he was very happy. Dexter is of course a male Salcota and he is about 85 lbs. We enjoy him a lot. Every day is a joy for use and for him!
Hows Winter when it snows?
Do anything different when it gets down in to the teens and or snow?
Great video
Big turtle
God bless him
Many more yrs of life
Thank you
This was extremely helpful! I have 2 African Spurred Tortoise that I got for Fathers Day 2019 and recently moved to Alabama on 25 acre. I was looking on how to keep them outside for the winter. This was so helpful!
Could really tell how much you guys love those torts
i just got two large sulcatas from a friend and this is beyond helpful thank you
Just starting on my 2 sulcata (6yrs) forever home. I live in Northern California, mostly below snow line. Although it does get into the 20’s. I am making a permanent move close by and can build their forever cottage. Super excited with your video so I do it right the first time. THANK YOU 🐢 🐢
Very healthy looking pair! Great idea for a heat house also. Just be careful with bypassing your grounds on all those plugs. Especially outdoors. They sell outdoor timers that have the ground plug in them and outdoor extension cords. Great video!
Love this, just got a tortoise and live in Livermore. Trying to figure out an enclosure and this was so helpful!
This is amazing information, well done on the innovation to meet the needs of these gentle giants. We are about to rescue our neighbors neglected Sulcata, and really appreciate having resources like your you tube video - THANK YOU!
Thank goodness for your video on this topic of winterizing giant sulcatas. I bring mine inside every winter and hate that. I even thought of rehoming him except I'd worry about him so I'm stuck with this big monster.
I am building a shelter for him tomorrow under my porch and I have one of those large heat pads and can get the heat lamps. He loves going under the porch and sleeps there most of the time. I live near the bay area and this should be fine as it stays dry and will be somewhat draft free. Thank you. Hate smelling big tortoise poops in my space.
Omg thank you for this! My tortoise is about 90lbs. This so helpful.
I just want to say I'm from Tracy Ca and I just bought a 5 month old baby sulcata and I can't wait too build him a home like yours has! Great job! Love the ideas!
Oh nice, you guys get lots of hot weather up there! perfect for these guys. Happy herping!
You have been the biggest inspiration for me! My 4-yr old tortie Dora will be happy, we're going to make this next weekend!
aww thanks so much for the kind comment Clint. I am also seeing this comment 4 months late so I hope your house is up and running!
wow! they have a very nice house & a loving home. thanks for caring so well of these tortoises & for posting such a great idea 🐢
Thanks Kathryn. We love them very much and thanks for watching and taking the time to comment :)
Thank you so much for the information! I've been trying to figure out how to make an outside home for my Spur thigh tortoise. This house is perfect!! I'm so excited to get started making mine. So thoughtful of you to share your ideas so that other tortoises can have wonderful homes built by tortoise parents.
This was very interesting and very helpful. Ours is still a little guy but it won't be long before he's going to be big enough to need something similar to this! Thanks for the video, and your torts are gorgeous!!
Thanks David! I appreciate that and I am glad it was helpful.
Your video has been the most helpful. You talked about lights, heating and clever tricks to insulate and protect the tortoise and house vice versa. Ive got to make mine before this summers end! I really enjoyed it.
Thanks Eduardo! I am glad it was helpful :)
How kind of you to share your knowledge with others!! Excellent video and great husbandry for those lucky torts!!
Thanks so much @piscesmind. Great appreciate the kind words. :)
Great ideas! I have a hatchling coming tomorrow, will be indoors until I can keep outside for summer months, live in Nebraska. Will be in 2 car garage when bigger for winter months.
You have provided very well for your animals . I suspect that Shelly is also a male because of the fork in his plasteron under his head and neck. You should be rightfully proud of doing so well and sharing with us. Most of us caring for these animals would make fatal mistakes!
thanks so much! yes, as you suspected, we confirmed Shelly is a male. We love them very much and we are so lucky to have made it with them all these years :)
Hmong Mgtow Meng John Lee they should rename it sheldon I suppose haha
hahah, no renaming at this point. I think he will forever be Mr. Shelly :p . Sheldon is a good idea though
Explains why they fight and need to be separated sometimes!
I have a similar enclosure in our garage for the winter months. Our sulcata is 12 years and 55 pounds. I have my design for the next enclosure outdoors which will be built once we move (1-2 years). We live in coastal Georgia which allows our guy to stay outside from March to Oct. very social reptiles. Great post and great care, G.
Thanks! It sounds like you guys have a great set up as well. Happy tortoising :)
Excellent video, You went above and beyond to care for your tortoise. Awesome!
Thanks! And yes, we love our torts! :)
Great setup, an ideal way to do it, especially for folks who live in California.
Thank you very much for taking the time to share this! I have to start thinking of an outdoor habitat for my baby and this is extremely helpful. THANK YOU
So glad it's helped! Happy tortoise keeping and enjoy them while they are babies. They grow up so fast :)
We are also in Alamo - we have a desert tortoise (Yoshi) and need to outfit him in a safe warm place in our backyard. Thank you for all of the tips. Your video will really help us to get it started. Good Job!!
Hi fellow Alamo tortoise pal! I hope you and Yoshi are doing well. That's so cool you have a desert tort. Beautiful creatures and I love that they hibernate. I wish mine took the winter off. haha. Take care and sorry my reply is so late.
Thank you for the idea on an outdoor enclosure when mine gets too big to bring indoors! Love you pair and setup btw!
The Tortoise is So Cute 😀 God bless you for taking care of it
Found this video very helpful and got some great ideas for mine. I like how you put everything in simple terms and don't rush too quickly! Thank you :)
Thanks so much Anna! I am glad it's helping so many people and tortoises. There were so few resources out there on how to do this sort of thing. Again, just glad that it's helping others. :)
Hey, wonderful layout!! Mine is similar, but I sandwiched the foam between two thin layers of plywood. I never thought about using a mini-shed as my base. Very Very nice set up. Thanks!!
GREAT shed. Been looking for a model like this for El Chapo Guzman (my escape artist sulcata) for years. Thanks!!
I am so happy you posted this video! Our tort is 15 and in need of a full time outdoor solution and there is not much online to help as far as DIY goes. I'm excited to get started!
Thanks for this. We are coastal Orange County. This year is cooler than usual and I am concerned to keep our 75 lb girl warm. We have had no problems in the past. We noticed her moving in the evening and started looking at options.
I have a semi big Salcata. 50pounds, love what you did with this design. Thanks for sharing :)
For the love of god thank you finally
No one cares about the tortoises and I have no idea how to take care of them because there’s nothing like online for bigger ones
Thank you, that is why I made this video and I am so happy that it's helping other tort owners.
Stephanie Kong could you please upload more on your tortoises unless you got rid of them because I don’t see many people with big spur thighed tortoises
@@sewlfn Dude search up Kamp Kenan dude is amazing
@@sewlfn Yes, definitely look up Kama Kenan. He's great and offers so much tortoise information (he is based in Florida). I got some of my ideas from him. I will upload an updated video this spring. I still have the tortoises and they are bigger and stronger than in the video! They seem to be loving their house after the few improvements we made that I want to share since they could help others. But I agree, there are not too many resources out there for tortoise keepers in more temperate climates which is why I made this video!
Stephanie Kong yeah, I’ve watched Kamp Kennan for 3 years I decided not to get a tort yet and got an iguana but yeah kamp kennan is good
We might be able to Google "freezer flaps" or "cool door flaps" , "vertical flaps for freezers" , ect. I'm going to look into that when I order my supplies! Thanks for posting this!
Thank you so much for sharing this. I live in AZ, and am inheriting a sulcata because his/her owner is moving to Idaho. I needed some hints for what all I needed for an evening house. Mine will be a little different than yours, but functionally the same. You are awesome!
that's fantastic to hear! I am glad this is giving ideas so so many other tortoise owners. Feel free to share any tips or tricks you figured out for yours. This is always a work in progress and I am always looking for ways to improve. Happy tortoise keeping!
We have two Sulcutas and live in Northern CO. Habitat has been difficult due to our winters. Currently, we have to keep them separate because we didn't know you have to own them in odd numbers due to submission (the dominating guy attacks the other). We have talked about getting one more so they can be housed together yet 3 would be too much at this time. anyway, we built two different indoor pens as well so when the weather isn't permitting they come inside yet as they grow indoor options are becoming less. Both of ours love to dig so we have deep large holes in yard. I like your habitat idea; I was actually looking at that to convert and seeing yours does offer options. I appreciate you sharing cause you're correct not a lot of care info for these special shell babies... I totally welcome fellow Sulcuta owners to keep in contact with me, id love to hear about yours, suggestions... etc
Thanks Jennifer! Oh man, yeah we had to fence them once they started trying dig under the house. That was the line. haha. I would ideally keep mine separate since one is bigger and can push the smaller one around. Luckily they spend most of their time minding their own business but I have noticed in recent years they bug each other more. I hope it doesn't get to the point that they need to be separated so fingers crossed. Same to you! There should be a sulcutta fan page. haha. reach out if you ever want to bounce ideas off someone! Have a great weekend.
Thank You , This Really Helped Me. I Got My Sulcata very Small. And I agree I Had No Idea He Would Get So Big, But I Im learning everyday, This video Tells me exactly what to do, Thank You..
It's such a learning process, isn't it? Happy tortoise keeping :)
Thank You for the very helpful video, I live close to San Francisco,My tortoise lives outside, I need to upgrade my Myrtle is 45 lbs ,love the housing, my thoughts on humidity…
I love the video you gave me so many ideas I have a 14yr old sulcata I did an outside enclosure but your it's awesome I am going to use some of your tips for sure!! Thank you
That's wonderful! Thanks so much for the feedback :)
Nice enclosure. FYI - I put my pig pad, which is a 2'X4' rubberized heating pad, on the ceiling of the enclosure, and let it radiate down. That way the tortoises cannot damage it. I use a a Stanfield pad, about 160 watts, with a voltage regulation, so I can adjust when needed. My barn is also insulated so it keeps them warm in sub freezing temps ( i retrofitted a shipping crate for the Sulcata barn) perfect size for the 80 pounds male and female pair, they are about 20 years old. They mate all the time, and the male is loud! He also will push her around occasionally, as he does not have any males to focus his aggression on.
beyackabiotch that's a great idea for the heating pad. If they manage to destroy their current one I will definitely look into wall mounting it. Funny about your torts with the mating. Have you found any way to distract the male from harassing the female all the time? It's so annoying! I feel bad for our Shelly.
I have not found a way to keep the male from being aggressive when the weather is good, except to possibly keep them separated when the male is particularly ornery, which I don't like to do. I had read that the Sulcatas mate only certain times of year, but this male will try year round, when there is any sort of decent weather, even in December and January, which is typically cold and wet in Ojai, CA. Any sunny day and he is at it again. I notice he is constantly smelling the rear area of the female, I suspect she gives off pheromones that contribute to get the male going. My real only concern is the male knocking the female over, or, falling over himself. I am not always home to help them, and they cannot right themselves.
We deal with the same problem. I hope he's better behaved this spring.
Thanks. Frankie just turned two ans is growing fast! Exploring my options.
Awesome video with great tortoise cameos! Though I have to admit my favorite part was when you said "nubbins"
Trying to learn what it takes to take care of a sulcata in the winter months. Lots of great ideas here. I would add dirt as others mentioned but yea building itself lights heat great.
lot of work. cute healthy sulcatas
Thank you so much!! This was EXACTLY what I was looking to find to help with ideas for my Sulcatas!! Just bought a dog house, going to insulate and heat it and its nice to see how well yours looks and works for you! I'm on the Right track! Thanks for the helpful video!!! Your tortoises are so cool! Mine are 4 and 8lbs right now growing fast!! Wish me luck!! 🙌🏼🐢🏡👍🏼
I am so glad that you got some useful tips from my video. It's always a work in progress and I am always looking to improve. Enjoy your babies while they are small, I really think mine have grown faster once put outside full time. I miss the days when I could pick them up by myself. haha
This video was super helpful! I am looking into getting a sulcata and my biggest reason to not was that we experience cold winters here, but this is giving me hope!
You can do it! As long as you don't mind a higher electricity bill :)
Great video you are a great tortoise mom❤🐢❤
Wow Stephanie! This is a great setup. And nice tutorial!😉
Thanks for watching :)
wow so they 26 ytears old now... no new videos? very cool tortoise house. only thing i can improve upon is rather than a timer, you can use a dual thermostat controller. they use them in growing pot. it has a sensor to control the temp during the day and a seperate sensor for the night. so you can control equipment to come on or off during different temps . it's amazing. if you need the model number of what i am using, let me know and i'll get it today for you. great idea you gave me with the insulation. thank you immensely .
Thank you so much, I'm trying to build a home for a tordas, and adopted him. I had no idea
You're welcome! Best of luck. They are wonderful pets but there's definitely a learning curve. Reach out if you have any questions.
Thank you for the help! Wonderful set up and information.
👍great advice I own 4 sulcatas there my babies ❤
This is awesome!! It’s a lot of work tho... I wish I could just hire you guys to build this for my tortoise once I buy my home lol.
There are not alot of places to buy "Tortoises Houses" but I did locate a place here in California that does ship these amazing homes. bowwowdoghouses.com/dog-houses/
Me tooo!!!
@@TERRYROBNETT I clicked on the link but it said not found😕
@@tommybragalone7943 oh no 😳 that’s too bad. So sorry
i'm in canada, and a sulcata would be my dream pet if i could. but i'd need a barn almost plus twice the thickness of insulation to keep them properly in the winter
Just came across your , this vid... looks great but just how cool is your cool in winter. Thank you.
We are in Alamo, California in the Bay Area. I would recommend looking it up and comping it to your winters. Overall, we get a fair amount of rain and it will go below freezing during the night. However it will very rarely dip into the 20s. If your area gets colder you could beef up the lights and insulation but if it gets really cold where you are, I would throughly test the temperature through a few nights to make sure it's staying warm enough before your torts use it just to be safe.
Thank you for this! My sulcata is only 2, however I live in PA and this would be something great to do in the spring through summer months out side!
I live in Delaware and I have been trying to figure out a setup for outdoors for mine. It's hard here on the east coast. How big is yours and what kind of setup do you have?
Awesome video and enclosure our Sulcata is only about 2” now so I’ll have plenty of time to build one of these! 😂
haha, yes plenty of time to plan your tortoise empire :)
It goes by fast! In 5 years ours went from 1 inch to 1 foot long
Looks great! Gives me some ideas to help our little guy. Thanks so much
Thanks for watching :)
thank you.. I have 4 large tortoise I just got this past year. As I live in Florida few nights a year I bring them in under heat. but Bertha is 150 pounds and I wrap in a blanket when under 5o. but I want go eventually build something like this!!!
Wow! 150 lbs! that's huge. In Florida, I think your shed would be even easier because it wouldn't need as many lights or insulation.
Very informative video. Thanks for showing this!
You thought of everything. I am going to do the same thing for my Bubba.
Love you're tortoise house 🏠 cool deal
This is awesome- well done.
What a really informative video! I really enjoyed it. Now I'll know what to do to set mine up. Great job!
Thank you for the feedback :)
Thank you for this! I live in Ohio so I was trying to figure out how to make something to keep my Sulcata warm all year around outside.
Very nice setup.👍
Great video! 🐢❤️👍
Thank you for all the wonderful information and suggestions.
Great video! Thanks for the info 👍🐢❤️
Pretty darn good video. I’m in Phoenix and the winters around here can get chilly. Sometimes even under 40°F at night. So I’m looking for ideas for a shelter. I’m also hoping to prevent digging.
Thank you! Best of luck in your winters. Our winters get down to the 30's and this house has held up wonderfully. It makes keeping large tortoises so much easier.
Thank you so much!
Love from the Central Valley California
Thanks Vicky! Have a great weekend, stay cool :)
Zoo med have heat regulators to plug in between your heat lamps and timers
Thank you so much for all the information and making this video :) it really helped us out so much.
Thank you so much for creating this video! (Do I know Tank from Instagram?) Alice is our 25 year old Sulcata - we acquired her less than a year ago, along with a beautiful outdoor structure. Being new tortoise parents, we are trying to learn everything we can, in order to provide the best care, and your video confirmed some things for us, as well as taught us what I haven't been able to find elsewhere. Thank you!
We live in New Mexico where temps get below freezing, between November and February. I've been closing off her entryway by attaching a gate over the doorway - to avoid closing her up entirely in the house, and to avoid predators. I have all of the same heating devices you recommended, but wondering if the potential nightly chill could become an issue. I try to maintain her habitat's temperature to around 75/80 degrees.
Congrats on becoming new parents! Tank does not have his own IG account, but I am @pompomcrab if you want to follow me, Tank makes it on there sometimes.
Keeping it 75/80 will be extremely difficult during freezing temperatures. We get some nights below freezing and even when I run the 3 ceramic bulbs and heating pad on full blast 24 hrs a day, I still struggle to stay in the low 60s at the coldest times at night. I have read that as long as they stay above 60 they are ok as long as it is not for a prolonged period of time. Apparently, they can even tolerate in the 50s (again, for short periods of time) but anything below that is probably dangerous and increases their changes of respiratory diseases, etc. I have also thought about doing what you are doing by creating a door that can seal them in during the coldest nights but I have not tried it yet. From the time that I made this video, I added a second plastic runner across the door hole, but this time, with only one cut down the center for them to enter and exit. I found this really helps keep the heat in compared to strips like in the video.
If you find other ways to keep him warm this winter, please please let me know! I am always looking to improve.and get new ideas. Not many resources out there on how to keep these big boys/girls.
Thank you help me so much and I lived in Northern California two
love this video , i think its the only one of its kind iv ever seen, i was turned of getting a sulcata because of the size and living in england , so i hadnt thought of them staying outside but this seems to work a treat , deff something to look into x
I have a 2 month old and your video probably saved her life in the future lol. The tips you gave are genius!! Thank you soooooo very much!!! I would love to reach out to you when I have questions. Do you have a RUclips channel?
What a great video. I've been thinking of ways to keep my "little" guy outside here in PA. Your thin gage extension cords (with 3-2 prong adapters) scared me a little, but everything else seemed thought out and well done. Adding a wooden riser (roughly 2") in the back half of the shed would allow you to insulate under them while they sleep and possibly eliminate the heater they destroy. Depending on the insulation used, it will not absorb the moisture.
Thank you, it's definitely a work in progress. I appreciate the input. Thanks!
I have a tortoise named Charlie. He will be turning 7 years old in a few days. My dad built Charlie a outdoor enclosure made from hog wire fencing. I think Charlie is a Sulcata tortoise. Charlie is shooting around 40 to 45 pounds!!
Thank you for posting. Just what i needed.
Glad it helped!
The carpet runner material, or whatever you use for that, there is professional stuff and it's really good, but my point is that you can use 2 layers that overlap to cover the slit between each other and the turtles will go in and out just as easily with a lot less energy.
For energy, a person can, for some money, can use a simple solar collector using water pipes painted black (and behind glass ideally) the water pumps through the pipes collecting heat and the you can bury the warming pipes in the ground under the shed for a nice cozy warm earth feel. Use sand and it's even cozier. Just hook it up to the plumbing and put a drain on it so you can flush out the water if necessary. Make it so you can fill the pipes with hot water and you can do away with the solar part, since it's so small. Of find a baby water heater. I write a lot about this subject and realized it was too much and deleted the rest, but you get the idea. The lamps can cover the rest just fine.
I mentioned several economical says to insulate with from birds and cardboard, but it depends on how much cold we're talking about. I know in Kansas we get 60 mph winds and crazy cold spells. So that warm sand is Incredibly cozy. just to take over where lamps fall short, it won't cost much. It's a really efficient way to keep them toasty: warming the earth they sit on. That's the title of this essay. There are many ways to do this, such I've deleted. You're welcome.
A person can get those foam or fiberglass boards. Ok, I've seen pink, blue, I've seen just packed fiberglass with a black side and a yellow side, I've seen foam between 2 pieces of Tyvek, am I spelling it wrong? It doesn't tear, so it gives it structural strength, I've seen just a poster paper on each side and all are very reasonable and they glue on with constuction glue in a caulk tube. Just do vertical lines a few inches apart and if you put slats of wood or cardboard stips from cut up Amazon boxes, that air gap is extremely insulating if less than 5/8", 1/2" is great. It's not just for warmth. It holds the foams boards up too. On 2nd thought, those turtles will tear that foam up, near the ground, so just use a solid strip of cardboard along the bottom on the inside and then some sacrificial corrugated cardboard all around where they bump into it. I bet cardboard by itself is better than nothing but a cardboard layer on top of the foam would protect the foam. So that's a lot of layers and spray foam can fill in the cracks. Sand conducts the warmth on the pipes in the ground.
Well, sharing Information is great. I didn't know Rubbermaid even made sheds. So we learn by sharing, that's for sure. I just had a thousand thoughts go through my head from watching the video. I deleted most but they're all just solar hot water and water heat storage as a way to get warm earth at night and cool earth by day, with timed valves. For emergency cold, an infusion of gas heater hot water so get them through the week. An old water heater on the street for pickup might be a rust bucket, but it might be a way to store thermal mass, so it lasts. The warm sand will hold some too. I'm sure there are more informed people than I. Besides, the lamps and insulation will go the distance too. I doubt you'll get complaints if the hot water runs out, but as I said, you can just plumb it to the house and let some in by thermostat and the cold on the other end could be a pressure valve that just fills a pond or waters the grass (frozen) a little because it's set lower than the tap pressure, and I've done it again. got to learn how to quit.
I want a tiny shed with a heated ground sand to lay on while I sleep in winter with my turtle buddies. Turtles are better than people, and that's my next book after "Why humans are destroying the Planet", Well, It's shorter than the title: Because people can see what must be done for the planet to continue life unharmed but we aren't doing it and it's already too late to start. We just sat back, watching it on TV and in the magazines while getting your oil changed but didn't actually pay the people who are burning the forest to stop and protect it, for $3/day. For $6 they'll plant saplings. That's a longer version. The forward explains that we've already kked over 60% if mammal life on Earth. For example. Gorillas? Down by 55% in the last 20 years.In 1 century we've destroyed beyond return, the only Earth there is. We know how to solve every single problem. But we didn't and we aren't. Just tiny bits here and there. Heros. We need 8 BILLION heros. Even one with the money. Instead they spend it on cancer or something....why would cancer matter if the planrt chokes on humans? Alright, wow. I deleted stuff on-topic and replace it with this? That's it. No more comments from me for 48 hours. unit long enough,? 96 then. ok.
Love the video and learning about your tortoises!
Thanks so much! Glad you enjoyed it :)
Nice setup
Love this enclosure, thank you for sharing
Thanks for watching!
Excellent video! extremely thorough and helpful! thank you!
Thanks for watching, glad you enjoyed it!
thank you!!!! love it. this will help me.
Nice love the ingenuity.
thanks so much RW!
I don’t think I’m gonna keep one of these guys, but I loved the video! Don’t know why it was recommended to me tho
Hiii! I have a sulcata tortoise. Just got a huge doghouse for him. I got a giant reptile 18x18 heater. I'm going to get a night light also. Can you give me the times you have the lights set to? Should i run the heater during the day also? And he is 13 yrs old. At 75lbs
Great video!
Where do you live? And how cold will it get there.
Thanks. Great video
Great work
I'm convinced mine is a female now,the forks you see underneath the shell are good for flipping other tortise for their own protection