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18-06-2013, 02:12 PM | #22 |
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put thermometer in outdoor house last night.... probe in air recorded 15.6C probe in soil similar.
Doesn't seem too cold for them |
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18-06-2013, 07:54 PM | #24 |
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Do you find they bury much? Also how deep is the soil?
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18-06-2013, 11:17 PM | #25 |
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I literally dug about 6" down and turned the soil over pulled alot of the grass, spread 1" of topsoil then added sand and its great I only put the 1" of topsoil in so it looked nice because the other soil was dry ha !
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19-06-2013, 07:33 AM | #26 |
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Thats pretty much what mine was like last year and I lost both of then about 6" down. Took me two days of digging by fingers to find them. Hence the slate this year.
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They will dig down if its too hot, or too cold. What time of the year did they dig down that deep?
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A couple of mine do dig down very deep, i have deep soil areas they dig down into, even tyler who is just 9cm will usually dig down in a tunnel he made in the outside enclosure under the campanula & hebe so i know if he isnt dug down in the shed he will be in the tunnel and i know where to look for him x
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Here we go again!!!
Hello I am a returning member (haven't contributed since 2008!) and I can really empathise with everyone here struggling to do the right thing for their torts in this awful weather we're having!
I have come to the conclusion that the only answer to keeping torts in a garden in the summer is to have a heated shed where they can warm up, then roam around and munch away. When it rains and the temperature drops, they go back in and warm up again. It's sad because like everyone else I want my torts to live as naturally as possible. But I have had to do this if they are to live -a bit like- they would in their natural environment. I have put two ceramic heat lamps (dangling from the ceiling) in a shed as well as a large wooden box full of straw in the corner. The shed has a small tort-sized opening at ground level with a little swing door - a bit like a cat flap. This seems to work well for them. But what else can we do in this climate? England is a long way from Greece or where ever hermanns come from. It's good to be back and reading all your interesting and very helpful posts. Jenny |
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