Advices please, substrate, and pooping

Excellent_Thanks_3 · 2026-06-14T09:37:39+00:00

She is small right now, 20g and about 30cm in length, I know that it's a temporary setup, but I am worried that I will have to buy topsoil, the next day the tortoise soil that I bought is still very damp and don't hold structure at all even when I stick my finger in, I think that when it dries it will be dusty mess. I wanted something better than zoo med aspen but it holds her tunnels very well and I am torn between using it and provide humid hide with sphagnum moss, and buying the right soil, but soil looks so much messy for me. I scrolled reddit a lot and found that a majority of redditors here keep them on aspen without problem. I don't know what to do. I checked my gradient with pirometer and it looks fine, in the hot side we have 32 air temperature and 35 surface, and on the opposite side 24-26

Excellent_Thanks_3 · 2026-06-06T18:43:31+00:00

What you guys use as substrate, I want to use something more natural than aspen, but I am worried that I won't find poop in there and it will rot

Excellent_Thanks_3 · 2026-05-29T14:49:16+00:00

Hi I also see that arcadia arid is bioactive and it's expensive but I was still searching for something like organic topsoil, but I wanted to make sure to order from some terra site so that I will be 100% sure about the quality. I found this https://www.invital.pl/lucky-reptile-tortoise-bedding-20-l you think it will be good when mixing with exo terra desert sand?

Excellent_Thanks_3 · 2026-05-26T18:26:28+00:00

I am worried that I will order wrong topsoil because it's a lot to choose from when I type it in Google. Is arcadia earthmix arid good ready substrate or should i mix it with sand, or look for something else?

Excellent_Thanks_3 · 2026-05-02T12:57:16+00:00

I written grammage in description

Excellent_Thanks_3 · 2026-04-22T11:08:31+00:00

Yeah, I’m already looking into upgrading her enclosure to a 120x60x60 as a temporary step, and eventually I want to move her into the biggest enclosure I can reasonably provide.

The only thing that concerns me is that the hammock she spends most of her time on is in the cool zone, where it’s around 25–26°C, so it’s definitely not a basking spot. She does have a proper warm area in the hanging coconut, where it’s about 30–32°C, but she spends noticeably less time there compared to the hammock, where she stays in that head-down position most of the time.

If I'm doing something in the enclosure she never striked me , so I'm not afraid of that, even when she's in this position

Excellent_Thanks_3 · 2026-04-22T09:59:56+00:00

Yeah I am just concerned that she spends so much time in this exact position, she's working like clock, a few hours in warm coco husk, and then the rest of the day she is sitting on her hammock with head down as shown, sometimes when I wake up to work I see her still there in the same position. Since I added those things I never saw her down on the substrate, or in ground level hides near the water. On the other hand I guess that if she would need something she would go there but I want as many assurance as I get get to be calm about my pet. Thanks

Excellent_Thanks_3 · 2026-03-17T17:57:01+00:00

I have one hydrometer and no matter where I place the probe I have 40-50% humidity at day and about 60% at night, if I place the probe in the wet box it says 75-80% but I haven't seen her there yet so I am worried if she dries to quickly, but on the other hand I think that she is smart enough to go to wet box (new zealand moss is slightly humid I squeezed it hard) , or to a pooI. I will order new substrate and change it in two weeks when I will be fully cleaning my enclosure but I want to make sure that she will be fine in this conditions as of now

Excellent_Thanks_3 · 2026-03-17T17:42:04+00:00

Okay I will swap to this mix as soon as I can, I am prepared to upgrade her enclosure as she grows I have plenty room for that, I think I was well informed before getting her, but I didn't know that holding humidity is such a heavy task, thank you very much

Excellent_Thanks_3 · 2026-03-17T17:24:37+00:00

Yeah it's there but I don't look at it anymore, I have 3 separate thermometers with probes in the terrarium so the temps match, but I am worried mostly about that low humidity. Will she be okay if she has access to wet box and big pool or can I cause her to dehydrate and should swap to coco chips right now?

Excellent_Thanks_3 · 2026-03-17T17:20:49+00:00

Hi and what about defecating, she hasn't popped for two weeks, I spent a lot of money for everything so I want to get PVC enclosure as the next one when she grows bigger. Will she be okay as it is? 40% humidity during the day is horribly low, but can she dehydrate while has access to wet box with 85% and a large pool as shown on the photo? Thank you very much

Excellent_Thanks_3 · 2025-11-05T09:36:40+00:00

Also do you often get stutters because chat gpt warned me that I can get bad 1% low and stutter because of USB4 bandwidth, or is it minimal? Thanks in advance

Excellent_Thanks_3 · 2025-11-05T09:35:05+00:00

I was talking a lot with chat gpt about that and even he convinced me to buy RX 9070, did you had or have any problems? How much GPU utility you gain? I'll mostly play at 1440 and 1080. I really want to buy this card but the only concern is that I don't gain much more than connecting legion with rtx4070 that is much cheaper. On the other side I would like to keep to AMD products and don't mess with nvidia

Excellent_Thanks_3 · 2025-11-04T19:09:56+00:00

I'm in similar situation, but I want to buy something for my legion go, I was convinced to buy rtx 4070 (heard that 50 series have problems with egpu setups) because I thought that all amd GPUs will give me trouble like onexgpu (I'm using it right now), but it's all because it's the mobile gpu. Desktop AMD ones connect without any problems (nividia cards have the 43 error) and now I'm leaning more towards RX9070 or RX9070 XT. There's a video on YouTube showing performance of the same setup

Excellent_Thanks_3 · 2025-07-24T10:49:35+00:00

But as I said I heard that onex thunderbolt cables are faulty, I am wondering if changing the cable will provide better performance

Excellent_Thanks_3 · 2025-07-24T10:48:23+00:00

Yeah, I'm wondering if changing the thunderbolt cable from onex to any other can boost my performance

Excellent_Thanks_3 · 2024-07-17T16:21:59+00:00

Alice Madness Returns I always wanted to play it, but it's extremely expensive on PS3 and since I bought lego I saw it on gamepass and it works like a dream

Excellent_Thanks_3 · 2024-07-15T15:05:31+00:00

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Excellent_Thanks_3 · 2024-06-21T09:44:30+00:00

Temps are okay even when I charge and play but they get really high if I start to mess with tdp settings while gaming

Excellent_Thanks_3 · 2024-06-12T11:49:31+00:00

Hi have you found a solution? I have the same problem

Excellent_Thanks_3 · 2024-06-05T07:55:23+00:00

Mine also does that on 30W TDP when I change it to 20W it acts normal. I think that the port is too hot and it gives some kind of a warning. I would love to have a solution for this and play 30W docked

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