heated outdoor tortoise enclosure?
Question by frank: heated outdoor tortoise enclosure?
I’m trying to keep my greek tortoises outside 24/7, they live in a large gated enclosure where they can’t burrow out of and I put wire over the top to prevent anything from getting in. It’s starting to get colder outside (we live in tucson, Arizona) but I don’t think the temperatures will fall below anything 50degrees during the winter. I was wondering if there was a way to heat part of his enclosure without electricity like making some sort of greenhouse and with what, I tried making a mini greenhouse out of a waterbottle and partially burying it but at the end of the day it was the same temperature as outside.
I also don’t want to make a huge building project or anything so I was also wondering if they make solar powered electric outlets so I can plug in a heating pad without having a huge cord leading back to my house, would that work and do they make anything like that?
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Answer by AnnieB
you can get little wooden and glass ‘greenhouses’ for herbs that are only about 20inches high and the glass would help attract the sun and heat inside – as long as it was facing sunlight.
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If you want to keep them outside, you need to build a shelter and have a heat lamp in it. If I were you, I would use a heat and uv in one bulb. They need it if it gets below 65.