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    Ranavirus infections in Terrapene

    Hello. I am posting this to make everyone who is not aware of it aware. Ranavirus is a DNA virus that was first describe from frogs. A few years ago it jumped to Terrapene. It has a predicted 90% mortality rate. I have been aware of it for a while then about two weeks ago it hit my colony I lost...
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    Hybrid box turtles

    I recently saw an ad on either fauna classifieds or king snake advertising hybrid (interspecific) box turtles. I think they were a cross between flabts and obts. I think that intentional hybridizing should be avoided as it represents a threat to the genetic integrity of the captive populations...
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    Shelly :(

    I went to check on the colony after work tonight. I noticed that Shelly was "sleeping" but her shell was open ( she never sleeps with her plastron down). I also smelled something that smelled a bit of death. At first I though their water needed changing (it sometimes smells like death when they...
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    I was just thinking....

    Why do people label animals as b grade etc just because they aren't perfect? An injury that gives them a scar or a minor developmental anomaly doesn't ( generally speaking of course ) effect their inherent value as a living being or pet and in most cases the ability to reproduce. Why does it...
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    New multivitamin

    Hey every body I was wondering which in your opinions is the better multivitamin reptivite or herptivite? I'm trying to decide if I'm going to switch. I've use both before but I can't remember which if either seemed to work better. Thanks for your thoughts.
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    more recent pictures of my pen

    The pictures of my pen some of them are from the spring before I moved. Un fortunatelly some of the plants dropped all of their leaves (small native Rhododendrons and older Blueberries). The ferns didn't like the move much either and I lost my pokeweed thouh I'm growing a new one outside the pen...
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    Freezing mulberry and grape leaves

    Is there any good way to freeze them with out them turning out like frozen collard greens or the like when thawed out? I'm trying to figure out a way to have them available even in winter as I will need them for the MBTs. I figure they work for EBTs, and GCBTs. Though the MBTs appear to be...
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    Vitamin c as a dechlorinator

    As anyone here ever used vitamin c as a dechlorinator for their boxer's water if so did you notice any difference from the regular type?
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    Almost all of the colony

    The first four pictures are of Blue. The next two are of Erik. The third group of pictures are of the green shelled female (she doesn't have a name yet and the green is kind of hard to see in the pictures) the last picture in this group is so you can see the difference between the green and a...
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    North American Box Turtle Conservation Group

    Hello every one. I am in the process of building data bases for species and subspecies of as many captive individuals as I can. These data bases are to be like the stud books for other genera. Their purpose is to help maintain genetic diversity in captive populations as a hedge against...
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    Overly aggressive males

    Okay so I recently adopted two males and a female EBTs from a friend of mine (who had them in quarantine before I got them). Any way I introduced them to my pen and the one male (who oddly looks like a GCBT is some ways) started attacking/mounting everybody male and female. I have never had a...
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    Petco $1 per gallon sale

    It started today.
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    Terrapene carolia conservation/range map

    Hey here is the first draft of my T. carolia conservation/range map. Just so you know this original map was made for my gis class , I am aware there are some typos and oddly when I first put it together the dialog some of the text didn't transfer (I don't know why but I am planning on fixing...
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    Red wigglers

    Hey I found an article that stated that red wigglers are poisonous. Any one heard about this if so has any research been done to substantiate this.
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    T. c. mexicana and T. c. yucatana

    Is any body working with these subspecies or know who is? I have located just two zoos the Gladys porter zoo and Atlanta zoo. That are working with mexicana but no one with yucatana. I plan on setting up breeding groups of all subspecies eventually. As my way of helping to protect their species...
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    Aquatic stage in Terrapene carolina

    Okay so I have been wondering whether T. c. triunguis and T. c. bauri have an aquatic stage like T. c. carolina, T. c. major and T. c. mexicana. Those three subspecies hatchling and very young juveniles generally spend a great deal of time in the water at least until their carapace starts to...
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    what pH do you keep you terrapin's water at?

    I was curious what pH do you keep your water at,those of you that keep terrapins, I mean? Mine is usually about 7.8 or so. Also does anyone else test water chemistry?
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    Terry and Melissa are mating!

    So they have been mating off and on for about two weeks so I had to modify their set up to include a dry area. I will take pictures of it to show. The plants had to be cut back so the marsh plants are not too happy. Unfortunately none of the aquatic plants made the move when I moved.So far I...
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    New Pen

    The first three pictures are of the pen after it was asembled and placed. The last two pictures are of the pen once it was filled with a mixture of wood humus, leaf mold, coco peat and some sand plus some actual forest soil to introduce the worms and milipeds and other critters.The plants in...
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    Native plants vs. non native

    Hey I have a question I was just thing about this I always use plants from the same area as the turtles or other animal(s) in the terrarium. I generally don't mix ones from other places when setting up terrariums of aquariums or pens. What about the rest of you?
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