Thanks Nina,
My table is indoors but the room temperature sometimes drops to 18-20c, my tortoise is a redfoot so needs a warm ambient room temperature as he doesn't bask to get warm, he does have a combined uv/heat lamp.
I thought the tunnel would create a tropical enviroment if I could heat up the inside of it, my red just stays on the warm area where the heat mat is and only comes out of his hide when I get him out.
There is still enough room at the end of the tunnel to hang the uv lamp and I was hoping that the tunnel would keep him warm enough to be active enough to wander round then he could come out of the tunnel for food at the same end his lamp is.
I know heat mats aren't good for tortoises but it seems that everything is reversed for tropical species, I was advised to use the heat mat under seed trays which I did but the heat didn't get through the trays and substrate to make it warm.
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