makes me know the turtles, and informs me when a new one pops up, lets me know who i am not seeing, and gives me a good assessment of their health and condition.... i have spotted ill turtles from picture i took.....i have also spotted equipment problems....... it also makes me ultra aware of...
we have a chance of rain tonight and tomorrow, i hope we get it.......
these two are probably responsible for most of the high colored box turtles i have.... no telling the original locales, the ones i purchased i got them from north carolina, mississippi and louisianna...... northeast ohio...
it's rained one day in the last 23 days, the 6th of july, and we've been 90-100F for 8 of those days......the box turtle pens have looked empty for the last week...... i put out a sprinkler today, and got this result.....
i honestly thought these 3 guys got out, they have before....the inside...
hatchlings are a little more timid, but rain will bring them out, a sprinkler works...... especially if it's been dry like it has been here ...... as said they usually end up moving along obstruction, often digging in corners were one obstruction meets another......
wood turtles have good memories, they say they have the problem solving ability of a rat, and they're good climbers, ones like this guy are extremely sociable, he's always interested in what your doing and has to check it out when your done....... once he found out what was on the other side of...
after a week of 100F temps a wind gust came through last night and took temps from 92f to 70F in about a minute.......
we have map turtles, wood turtles, blanding's turtles eastern softshell turtles, painted turtles, snapping turtles and spotted turtles all naturally occurring within 30 minutes...
depends on your outdoor enclosure, if they have what they need......... imo, having what they need, the weather in tennesee should never be a worry...... i believe doubled1996! is in tennesse
it's 98F air temp here right now,
true, but we make up for it with humidity. 80-100% humidity is no joke...... we only got 94F today, the humidity did drop to 56%, ... i could run a dog in the 80's with less than 40% humidity, i wouldn't run them in the 70's with 70-100% humidity..... the lower the humidity the higher the temps...
same here, it hit 100F yesterday, this morning i got up it was 80F with 100% humidity, my dog was born in the winter, never seen anything like this, he is hating it...... going to be 100F today tomorrow and friday, going to cool down to 90 after that....... we started june off with like three...
imo, i'd treat that as an infection...... i'd put povidone iodine or betadine on it once and then 2% chlorhexidine on it until it dried up..... i wouldn't use an antibiotic ointment, in this picture it looks like it needs to dry up to heal........
captive wild animals do get allergies.....
imo, access to the natural ground is important....... where i live we get negative fahrenheit temperatures regularly, without access to the ground everything would die......
lack of enforcement doesn't make it legal ..... you will find very few states where wild caught native wildlife can be kept..... anything that can be will require a permit ......
cttc is a nonprofit public benefit corporation, approved by the government??? you most likely can download an...
the winter ground temperatures are what matters, does your ground freeze? the hottest places in the united states get below freezing........ i'm pretty sure desert tortoises naturally come from colder climates that bakersfield........