I built our tortoise Leo an insulated 12'x4' home out in the chicken barn. He is way too big,smelly and noisy to live in the house. There was also a "he goes or you go" kinda thing going on. Anyway, I'm worried about him out there. He has two 250 watt heat lamps and a daytime light that I put on a timer. I just put in a wireless thermometer, which works wonderful. It has a little transmitter mounted inside his cage and the reciever is in the house. So far with the two heat lamps going the temp is in the high 80's if the temp is below 30. Above 30 and it'll get close to 100 so on those days I have to remember to unplug one of the lamps. The only problem I can see other than no natural sunlight for 4 months is a power outage. I'll have to run his heat off of a generator if that happens.
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If you lose power, just bring him in the house and tuck him in bed. I'm sure Vicki wouldn't mind for just one night.
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