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Right ok....
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no skim reading either
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03-11-2010, 09:17 PM | #13 |
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It was a good read, the thing that stuck in my mind was the drying effect lamps had on the shell. Particularly where ambient temps are low and the tortoise has to spend a lot of time under the lamps.
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03-11-2010, 09:26 PM | #14 |
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aye but the sun is much hotter than lamps so don't know how that works. interesting that vivs are supposedly low in humidity too, that's contrary to what you read elsewhere
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Hmm I guess the whole practice of keeping tortoises is moving forward every day as new information is available. It's a shame that pyramiding is so common, folks try hard to avoid it with diets and bathing etc, but little seems to help.
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It will also more than likely be more active in the morning as soon as it warms up, and in the evenings again when the sun isn't so strong, and when humidity tends to be higher. |
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If you're keeping a tort in a room that isn't too warm, then it will bask directly under the lamp for longer (I would think) to warm up. It may be getting too much heat directly above to raise it's core temperature, thus the possibility of burning or drying out the carapace. When we were getting alot of posts aout torts, especially Horsfields slowing down, Ed made a comment about ambient room temps being too low, and that he keeps his (active) horsfields in a tropical room where the ambient temps don't drop below a certain temp. Sorry, can't remember the exact temp and haven't got time at the mo to do a search but it was in the region of 20 degrees. When we keep torts indoors we tend to put a powerful lamp on stright away in the morning and then wallop, the tort is in the glare of a big ball of heat and light, instead of doing it gradually, as in when the sun rises and warms up the day. |
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I thought that too and in fact my torts actually do keep out of the sun under a bush or a slate and come out (from under the slate at least) with dampness on their shell but that article says ..
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That makes sense what you are saying there. I remember reading somewhere (it might have been kirkie or jonathan osric) had lamps come on almost gradually - lower watt first on a timer then stronger one in middle of day. room temp is as you say important, I've often switched my lamps off for a couple of hours if there has been an unexpectedly warm day and the torts still charge about until it eventually drops too low. BTW, I think it was 80f Ed's temps |
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That's the way I read it Bindi, I found that quite worrying.
Substrates are also much colder out of a lamps 'range'. While I agree there should be a cooler area I do not think large areas of the table should be cold. |
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