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Old 04-01-2012, 12:52 PM   #5
yuna1971
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Hi there, are you getting a hatchling horsefield?? If you are - all of the housing suggestions are fine as mentioned above. I would say to be careful with the water bowl if its a young hatchling. You may want to put either small stones/crushed oystershell (sold in the SW shop here) inside the bowl so as he cannot have any accidents. Keep it shallow - depending on his size.
In fact if he is a hatchling and a very small size, it might be best to bathe him yourself until he grows a bit. Just in case.
Horsefields do like a deep substrate and a soil substrate as Noodle says is ideal for them. You will need to keep the table as a whole pretty warm for them, they dont react well to cold/damp soil. So your lighting and heat will be a key factor. The bulb Noodle mentioned is a combined UV and heat bulb. This will be fine. The wattage of the bulb as there is a 100w and a 160w may largely depend on the size of table you get..which would depend on the size/age tort that you get.
We can go into basking/ambient room temps/cool temps once the table is bought. The larger the tortoise, the larger your table will need to be - and knock on impact - the greater the area to keep warm. A digital thermometer is also a must.
Have a look in the indoor enclosure pictures on the forum - to help with ideas on the types of enclosures you can get. And what you can put inside them.
Im sure more advice to follow. See what comes back. Good Luck xx
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