TurtleMan46
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Detailed (possible?) issue:
Hey
Mike here (Male EBT) doesn't like to ever move unless we actually pick him up and move him or entice him with food. Sometimes we take him out for walks in the backyard and instead of walking around he immediately runs to any cover. Maybe not full speed but he doesn't take his time. He will climb the entire fence trying to get through it looking for a dark area. He is familiar with his enclosure and atleast somewhat familiar with the yard. If I take him out his spot to feed him he will eat and then go back immediately or go to a different covered spot. Sometimes he digs into his own area and sometimes he goes into the hollow log thing we have for him. I have almost never seen him come out of cover on his own.
What makes this more weird is that he's a wild boxie, he was gotten from a forest before given to us and he looks pretty old like maybe 50.
His living conditions in detail:
His enclosure pretty closely mimics local weather (Eastern Tennessee). 80-90 degrees, 30-50% humidity. He gets UVB/A from Arcadia T5 Forest bulb and good heat from an Infrared heat projector. I think his diet is pretty good. He eats live earth worms, mealworms, crickets, romaine lettuce, green beans, carrots, peas, dehydrated beetles, tomato, pineapple, blueberry, strawberry, cantaloupe, banana, bok choy, and some other stuff that I can't remember. Also just bought some flukers box turtle food without any food coloring in it, haven't made him eat any of it yet. We feed him 3-4 times a week. Also he will chase crickets sometimes but won't try very hard usually.
We got him like last spring and I don't think he's been captive in winter at all, so I can't say if he's brumating or not. Anyways is this normal behavior? I read about it being normal but he doesn't even go for water. I do spray him a lot though so maybe he doesn't need to. Also he doesn't poop very often and when it does it's very dry looking. Maybe he's constipated, maybe once a week at most.
BTW: He climbed to that heat lamp by himself. I did take him out and he just climbed up there for some reason and went back down shortly after.
Hey
Mike here (Male EBT) doesn't like to ever move unless we actually pick him up and move him or entice him with food. Sometimes we take him out for walks in the backyard and instead of walking around he immediately runs to any cover. Maybe not full speed but he doesn't take his time. He will climb the entire fence trying to get through it looking for a dark area. He is familiar with his enclosure and atleast somewhat familiar with the yard. If I take him out his spot to feed him he will eat and then go back immediately or go to a different covered spot. Sometimes he digs into his own area and sometimes he goes into the hollow log thing we have for him. I have almost never seen him come out of cover on his own.
What makes this more weird is that he's a wild boxie, he was gotten from a forest before given to us and he looks pretty old like maybe 50.
His living conditions in detail:
His enclosure pretty closely mimics local weather (Eastern Tennessee). 80-90 degrees, 30-50% humidity. He gets UVB/A from Arcadia T5 Forest bulb and good heat from an Infrared heat projector. I think his diet is pretty good. He eats live earth worms, mealworms, crickets, romaine lettuce, green beans, carrots, peas, dehydrated beetles, tomato, pineapple, blueberry, strawberry, cantaloupe, banana, bok choy, and some other stuff that I can't remember. Also just bought some flukers box turtle food without any food coloring in it, haven't made him eat any of it yet. We feed him 3-4 times a week. Also he will chase crickets sometimes but won't try very hard usually.
We got him like last spring and I don't think he's been captive in winter at all, so I can't say if he's brumating or not. Anyways is this normal behavior? I read about it being normal but he doesn't even go for water. I do spray him a lot though so maybe he doesn't need to. Also he doesn't poop very often and when it does it's very dry looking. Maybe he's constipated, maybe once a week at most.
BTW: He climbed to that heat lamp by himself. I did take him out and he just climbed up there for some reason and went back down shortly after.