“Keeping it Cozy: The Role of Heat Lamps in Turtle Care”

Turtle OMG
Feb 4, 2024

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The warmth from a heat lamp helps aquatic creatures control their body temperature. Thermoregulation regulates turtle body temperature. Their reproductive, metabolic, and immune systems depend on this temperature. Tortoises, like all reptiles, have cold blood. These creatures cannot regulate temperature like Homo sapiens.

Therefore, turtles need sunlight and warmth. They absorb UVA and UVB rays from the sun to maintain physiological activities. Building a natural-looking enclosure is essential for indoor turtle care. Whether under a heat lamp or shaded from the sun, turtles will be comfortable and warm. Turtles can digest and absorb food. Heat also enhances calcium absorption and shell building.

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