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I have had my baby box turtle for about 9 months now and he is still really small. I do feed him daily and he is housed outside because I know how beneficial the uvb is to them. He mainly eats worms and pill bugs but I do give him a occasional cricket. I try to dust his food a few times a month...

I have a baby box turtle that I decided to make a outside habitat for, I made it so that the sides are really high and there is a big plant for shade. My question is if he is still getting uvb from being in the shade or is it useless? I can easily change the habitat up but I want to know because...

Does anybody know when there will be a reptile show in Chicago? If you do know please tell me where and when and I will most likely be ther

I have always liked salamanders just as much as I like tortoises. I was wondering if anybody else on this forum had any of them. I have a tiger yellow spotted and a blue spotted

I just made this humid hide for my baby box turtle if anything needs improvement please tell me.

I had gotten a hatchling 3 toed box turtle a few months back and it have a few concerns the first is I know hatchlings shells are soft but his is still soft is this regular I feed him every 2-3 days and he gets calcium dusted in his food once a week. His basking area is at about 85 and cool side...

So I told you guys about my baby box turtle and you have been helping with him and thanks for that. So he went on a strike agains eating so I tried a few things and it led to feeding him and soaking him at the same time and also leaving for 15 minutes. So when I went back to take him out he was...

I just got a new box turtle hatchling and he was very active when I first got him but now all he does is burrow and I know there shells are soft as hatchlings but I think his got softer. I soak him daily and give him calcium dusted worms but he kicks all the powder off. So I'm now worried that...

I got a new baby box turtle and he was very active and great. Now he is burrowing and his shell has gotten weak I know that when they are hatchlings there shells are weak to begin with but I think his has gotten softer I try to feed him worms dusted with calcium powder but he scrapes the powder...

Hey I just got my new baby box turtle everything is fine but I notice there is mold growing in his substrate. I was wondering how to stop it. [hr] Also my substrate is organic soil peat moss and repti bark

Sorry I left but I'm back and I'm getting a new three toed box turtle hatchling. The reason I stopped posting is because I completely forgot and had no questions or anything wrong with my Russian tortoise. He I still fine he is active and healthy. But now and back and will be asking questions...

So I'm just minding my own business walking into my room and I see my russian tortoise Walter getting it on with one of the bricks in his tank. So I'm joking with my parents that he needs a girlfriend

So my Russian Walter is very active and loves walking around. But my problem comes during winter what can I make for him to just get out of his enclosure. I have a rough idea of building a good sized thing in my basement for him but what and my basement has a concrete floor so what could I do...

I know this is off topic but is there anyone else on this forum who is going to redbud

So I'm thinking of getting another toe or box turtle and I'm thinking of getting a three toed hatchling anyone know where I could get a decent priced hatchling

I picked up this light today from petco and was wondering if it is ok to use because I know compact fluorescent lights are bad and all it says is compact and I just wanna ask before I use it in Walters tank [hr] I forgot the picture here it is

I have my russian tortoise Walter who needs to be kept a bit warmer in winter.( my family keeps our house at 65 in the day and around 60 at night) so any way I have a 40 watt zoomed red heat lamp I will run in the winter. My question is should I run it 24/7 or just night? And is it good or...

Hello I'am Jeff and I have a russian tortoise named Walter. I'm a first time tortoise owner and might need help along the way. I adopted Walter from a family who could not keep him any more and he is just awesome the encloser he came in was a bit small for a russian so I built him a 4ft x 3ft...