You are cutting the red wrigglers up, right?
When my babies were very small, I usually cut the red wrigglers in thirds, and gave them the moving end pieces and threw the centerthird away. They were intimidated by the full-sized/intact red wrigglers.
You can also dig in the dirt and find...
My female once dug a hole, noticed me watching her and stopped, then continued. I checked the then filled-in hole the next day, it was empty. I dug around, and found another hole a foot away with a clutch of eggs inside.
Whether it was a "test hole" or she wanted to confuse me since she saw...
Over the last 3 months or so, my one baby box turtle (now a yearling as of September 30th) has gotten very picky about eating. He was eating worms (red wrigglers), meal worms, and wax worms. Then he stopped eating wax worms, and only showed some interest in meal and regular worms, and he...
Well, apparently I did too.
Found this guy/girl while looking for the fresh nest from the adult turtles' adult activities 6-8 weeks ago. I was on my hands and knees digging when I saw him walking around. I could not find any others, but who knows. He's pictured next to the other baby from...
I'm new to baby turtles (first one hatched this past year), but not that new to turtles. A few years ago, one of my adults woke up from brumation lethargic, with no appetite, and eyes swollen shut. Warm soaks in water worked well for him. I know nothing about carrot juice, and I would defer...
These white, chalky-looking patches appear on his/her carapace whenever he's been out of the water too long. No particular spot, just wherever hasn't been underwater in a while. I've got him in a tank with shallow water covering 4/5 of it (Garden State Tortoise method I saw on youtube). I am...
Ok, getting worried about this little guy. He's not eating (much). Not sure if he's still 'full' from his yolk sac, although this picture was taken the day after I dug him out of the nest (Sunday 9/29), and it looks to me like most of the yolk sac is gone. I did see what I believe were two...
He looked like he was trying to eat the wet paper towels, so I took them out shortly after picture and just filled half the cage and tilted it to give him some dry spots.
Going to pet store tomorrow to get him some food and some hides. After seeing so many eggs die over the years, I was...
Well , after reading your advice, and watching him drag his egg around the cage a few times, I gently peeled a few small pieces of egg shell off the top of his shell. He shot out of his egg shell like a bat out of hell. I think the the dome of his carapace was getting caught on the egg shell...
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After years, and dozens of my turtles' eggs dying (inside the house, out in the pen, wherever), I went to check on an outdoor nest today and found one pipping. Only survivor from a nest of 8. He/she seems to be struggling a bit to get out of his shell. Both front legs, one hind leg...
Like beating one's head against a wall. But you all must know best.
I extend an olive branch by apologizing for making sweeping generalizations about breeders, and you all continue to jump on my back. So don't worry, if my turtles have a problem that I don't know about (because I can...
I apologize for quickly painting turtle breeders with a broad brush. I did not mean to be "dishonest". I've never met a turtle breeder in person, so I should not have generalized.from the captive-bred turtles I've seen, or the other animal breeders I've met. .
All the sites I've seen...
I think what this study may have been referring to was unscrupulous, greedy people grabbing every wild turtle they can en masse for the purpose of resale, and I'm not arguing that that has decimated the turtle population. How else would they have collected the data? Surveyed households across...
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I'd really love to see the studies that say the decline in box turtle population is due in large part to people taking one here and there...
Can she get in and out of water container? I can't tell from the picture. If you're not sure, put her in and she if she can climb out.
I'd recommend some chicken wire or something over the top to keep out predators. Having lost a turtle years ago from lack of a protective cover, it's...