light is as important as heat for keeping your tort awake during the winter so being by a window will help and if the table is large, room dark etc then you might need extra lighting at the far end from the main heat/light source. Your ambient or room temp needs to be about 20c through the day and with not much drop at night, so maybe choosing a small room thats easy to heat through the bad weather we're having at the moment. You shouldn't have any light on at night so no basking area etc, there are lots of things you can buy to feed in the winter and the food section is worth a look. Florrettes bagged salads, rocket, watercress etc plus consider using a good pellet such as Komodo alongside the greenery especially in the winter. Obviously when you have access to a good variety of greenery during the summer they won't be needed and must always be fed well soaked, I pour any suppluss water from them over the greens. Theres also a good winter food list on the Tortoise Trust's site but I'm not sure if theres a link to it from this site. The height of your bulb will depend on the temp of the surface below so raising/lowering it is how you adjust the temp.
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