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Modern Times – Housing

The Minimum provided for any tortoise :-

• is a dry  shelter (shed or green house)

• with a basking lamp – to thermo regulate –

• some sort of heater to ensure night time lows of around 12 degrees C – with constant 24 hr access.

• Bathing Facilities -  not too deep

• Secure area – that it cannot escape from (they can climb chain link fence, burrow under short distances, climb clematis, break old wooden fencing.

• Secure area from theft!

Remember – this is the minimum, it will benefit from much more!

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