How can i make a tortoise indoor enclosure more entertaining for the tortoise?
Hello, i have a 3 year old Mediterranean Spur thighed tortoise ( Scientific name: Testudo Graeca )
Anyway it is cooler because we are going into winter so she is inside she has a heat lamp UVB etc eats 100% weed diet ( dandilions chicory etc ) in her enclosure now she has a tray of live grass, pebals branches, basking rock and a "reptile" bowl of water, How can i make her Enclosure more intesting??
Thank you
Several possibilities.
Play with the food-
- bundle and hang plants for the torts to eat
- offer edible flowers
- if they eat pelleted or cubed hay, or Mazuri pellets, place some in odd corners of the habit
- raise some edible plants in low trays. Rotate the trays in so they can graze on them
Give them toys-
- some tortoises bump and move balls, like practice golf balls, Whiffle balls, etc.
- offer it things to climb over- ramps, bridges, hillsides, mostly buried pots on their sides, etc.
- offer different surfaces to walk on. Some people offer shallow trays of soil, pebbles, sand, etc. they can rotate out to clean or change up.
Let them hide-
- Hiding places in planted areas
- warm end humid hide
- cool end drier hide
November 17th, 2009 at 3:24 pm
Several possibilities.
Play with the food-
- bundle and hang plants for the torts to eat
- offer edible flowers
- if they eat pelleted or cubed hay, or Mazuri pellets, place some in odd corners of the habit
- raise some edible plants in low trays. Rotate the trays in so they can graze on them
Give them toys-
- some tortoises bump and move balls, like practice golf balls, Whiffle balls, etc.
- offer it things to climb over- ramps, bridges, hillsides, mostly buried pots on their sides, etc.
- offer different surfaces to walk on. Some people offer shallow trays of soil, pebbles, sand, etc. they can rotate out to clean or change up.
Let them hide-
- Hiding places in planted areas
- warm end humid hide
- cool end drier hide
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