INDOOR enclosures

[BADGERS MUM]

Originally Posted by karibum

Mine are 2 years old and Marvin is a right wee dare devil, he climbs on everything. He does still topple over and for this reason, I use a towel as the main part of the enclosure because they can get a grip of it and right themselves on it, and it's cheap and easily changed/washed!

I dont have a big enough space for her as yet to do towel I dont think,but its a fab idea

Originally Posted by xscrunchee

Maybe you should try putting things in the cool end for her and if she does flip over she should be able to right herself.
I layed Nanna on her back to take a photo of her plastron and she managed to get herself the right way up before I had even taken the picture! lol

If you have a couple of things in Maudes cool end she should be able to turn herself the right way up by pushing against something with her feet.

And besides-being on their backs is only really dangerous if they are under the heat lamp, if she is in the cool end she should be fine until you spot her or untill she rights herself. I know it is really scary but she should be able to do it ok, maybe they just need a little practice and the more things she has to climb up-the stronger her muscles and balance will become.

I may be talking rubbish so if I am just ignore me. I have had a tortoise for nearly 4 days so am hardly an expert, just trying to be helpful

fantastic reply Jay

[hysteria_uk]

Originally Posted by karibum

Are you thinking of keeping some again?

Reptiles in general or turtles? Turtles and torts were my ex wifes thing really. I would like to get back into it again in the future but not just yet. Id love to get another Iggy. Giving Lui up was the worst out of all the animals i had to let go. Would love another burm too.

[fatfecker]

Any tort keepers able to post pics of their winter accommodation? I've been looking into getting a larger species for a few years and need inspiration and to design their accommodation way before I get the animals.

At the moment I am thinking about a couple of Aldabras as I have an extremely large utility room I can convert for their exclusive use and a large garden but I would be interested to see anyone setups for leopards/sulcatas

[xscrunchee]

Nanna's house

[dskuse]

hi there im new to looking after my two 2yr old horsefields tortoise's and i just looked at the ones that have been posted and they make mine look like my kids put together.
oh and the thread on the websites on husbandry were fantastic help, thank you.
the person who is named xcrunchee your vivarium is the as i have got but packed with alot more,i dont think i can get anything else in mine, ill try to post a pic and see how much you can ridicule it when i learn how to work uploading a picture.

[Tina]

Pics of my new table...

In it I'm using hemp, readigrass, soil, wooden playstix, stones and slate so they have different textures to explore.

[Alexanders_mummy]

wow Tina thats amazing you dont fancy re doing mine do you ?

[chris_greg]

This is the indoor setup me and the girlfriend made at the weekend


Its about 4' x 4' and cost about £60 for everything apart from uv light

[rainbow 11]

realy good set up here. just a question we are makin a new home for our horsefield and was wondering iv u need to put a lid on the top at nite to keep the heat in?? had it for 2 weeks so any advice is very wellcome!!!

[chris_greg]

at the moment i have the heating on all the time so im not worried but in the future i will be getting a ceramic heater