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    Turtle Question

    Housing a terrestrial turtle and tortoise together is a big no-no. That's one of the big problems at Asian turtle markets as well: even if the turtles get confiscated before they end up on someone's dinner plate, chances they'll still die are very big. Ofc stress and lack of food play a huge...
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    Yellow Margined Chinese Box

    About the food: when mine were tiny, they got a small amount of food 6 days a week, so one day they got nothing. Now they're sub-adults I feed them like every other day. Make sure they get a variety of foods: high-quality turtle pellets, earthworms, crickets and grasshoppers (fed by hand since...
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    Yellow Margined Chinese Box

    If it is in fact a baby Cuora flavomarginata, a rather small enclosure (80*40 cm) will do for the next few years... Their enclosure should be decorated like a forrest habitat: moist soil mixed with bark, (fake or real) plants, moss, cork to hide under and a shallow water dish. I've had mine...
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