Create a tortoise enclosure indoors and outdoors for an adult tortoise in the UK.
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2024
- A tour of safe and secure indoor and outdoor space for an adult tortoise in the UK. Feel free to message with requests and questions. Please follow if you enjoyed the video or would like to see more. Thanks for looking!
What a wonderful old Moroccan tortoise. North African tortoise species are my favourites. I use the same plastic tubs as yourself, easy to keep clean and no mold growth, like you can get on wooden tortoise tables. My outdoor enclosure for my Herman's tortoises is the climate frame like Andy Highfield suggests. This has been a game changer for me. The frame gets very warm inside, even this time of the year. So the tortoises gets a longer season out doors.
Thanks for this video. We have a spur thigh and he has a large indoor setup and has just turned 3. I built an outdoor setup similar to yours but I have a wooden mesh lid that covers it fully to stop any attacks and I have 3 gravel boards of height. I built a little indoor house and drilled in a heat lamp but didn’t realise I could just give them few hours in morning before putting out for day and explains why I couldn’t find a marketed outdoor heat source. Also found with mine when put him out he just burrows into soil and stays there without really exploring? Is this just something they need to get used to?
Lovely old chap! So are you putting your tortoises outside in these temps even without sunshine? I live in south Wales s and we are usually around 12 or 13 degrees in the daytime but aside from a few sunny days we've had over the Easter Bank Holiday, when I put mine out in the garden for a few hours I'm not putting them out. So they have inly been out twice so far this year both Iver this weekend probably for around 5 or 6 hours in total.
The fridge I hibernate them in actually broke in January so they have been up in the house since then so they are desperate to get outside!
As long as you can feel a little sun on your face we’ve been putting tortoises out once they have warmed under lamps for a few hours in the morning to get started. They normally are straight to browsing weeds or exploring. It’s documented they can benefit from UVB even when it’s slightly cloudy so as long as it’s not grey and damp we tend to put everyone out. I’d say tortoises have be out 5 out of 7 days weekly last month. They are indoors every night until we are happy night time temps are not below 10c which won’t be for at least another month.
@@tortoise_matters interesting. Do you have a minimum temperate you could recommend. As I say here in South Wales we are getting average highs of around 11 or 13 but most days hover around 10 degrees, today was only around 7, night time temps are still.very low 5ish degrees sometimes less. On Saturday and sunday it got to around 14/15 with sunshine (felt really quite warm.in the sun) so they were out, as soon as it clouded over they started to dig down, at which point I brought them in.
They have a green house in there but don't seem to seek it out when it clouds over, they tend to go under brush or dig down.
I usually go by consistent day time temps of 15 degrees. The green house tends to stay around 2 degrees above air temp at night. Obviously gets much warmer with even the smallest amount of sunshine.
I have eastern Herman's btw