Alright, sorry for taking up so much boards room, but i've gotta make this work out.

So, i've requisitioned more space from my roomie, and I may be able to get this working. I just have to figure out if I can stack my two 40's on top of each other without burning my house down, because my snakes are lazy. If I can get a stacking shelf, then I can move them there and use their old space for the tortoise.

Now it's question time.

The way I see it, we have this old unused place on the side of my yard that we used to have plants in, but no longer do. Yet I still have the planter boxes. So here's what I was thinking..if I dug a hole, and put some chicken wire or other screening down in there so he couldn't work, and sunk the planter box in and grab a hinged top, would that be viable? I mean..outside does the tortoise need heat lamps and such since it's already in the elements?

Also, it's startin' to get semi-chilly down here in SoCal..what are your thoughts on keeping the animal outside while i'm in class, usually from 8am to 4 pm. I could bring him back inside before I went to work.

Has anyone had problems with felines? My cats are way interested, but I was thinking with the screen, they wouldn't be able to break in too well. I danno, any views on this would be welcomed.

Oh yeah, and would I put the pin closer to my house, which gets sun most of the day, or closer to the fence which loses sun later in the day, due to sun rotation? Such planning..

Lastly, the whole sleeping thing. When I take him outside, he's totally energetic, but inside he sleeps a LOT. Now, he's not cold, I could understand the sleeping if he were. Does anyone have any experience with this?

Thanks again guys.

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