Re: Heat Spot for Russians/Mediterraneans

Posted by Matt Hybel on September 07, 2000 at 16:05:03:

In Reply to: Update on my 2 Russians posted by C-dub on September 07, 2000 at 13:44:11:

I had a Russian tortoise several years ago, an adult female ibera and an adult female Hermann's. Now I have a juvenile male Hermann's. Every one of them responded to an incandescent "heat spot" at one end of the enclosure, just as Pursall describes in his book on Mediterraneans. If at first they are not aware of it, they become accustomed to starting their day under it, as the present Hermann's does every morning. If you already have such a spot light and the Russians do not yet come to it each morning, place it closer to where they burrow in so when it comes on they feel some of the heat and respond to it. I have the incandescent on a separate timer to come on about 1/2 hour before the full spectrum fluorescents. Every morning before I leave for work I find the Hermann's out of his hide spot warming himself under the light, getting ready to graze.

Good luck.

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: I had a Russian tortoise several years ago, an adult female ibera and an adult female Hermann's. Now I have a juvenile male Hermann's. Every one of them responded to an incandescent "heat spot" at one end of the enclosure, just as Pursall describes in his book on Mediterraneans. If at first they are not aware of it, they become accustomed to starting their day under it, as the present Hermann's does every morning. If you already have such a spot light and the Russians do not yet come to it each morning, place it closer to where they burrow in so when it comes on they feel some of the heat and respond to it. I have the incandescent on a separate timer to come on about 1/2 hour before the full spectrum fluorescents. Every morning before I leave for work I find the Hermann's out of his hide spot warming himself under the light, getting ready to graze. : Good luck.

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