after a week of 100F temps a wind gust came through last night and took temps from 92f to 70F in about a minute.......
we have map turtles, wood turtles, blanding's turtles eastern softshell turtles, painted turtles, snapping turtles and spotted turtles all naturally occurring within 30 minutes from where i am sitting, along with at least 15 species of snakes......... the temperature range where these temperate reptiles naturally inhabit range from -20F to 104F..... temperature swings of 40F are common......... "micro-climates" they're there, but they are not that different, given a long enough stretch of conditions and those "micro-climates" disappear.......
i kept exotic reptiles and fish as long as i can remember, in 2000 i started keeping native turtles, turtles native to my area, outside 24/7/365.... scary at first, until i fully understood it and seen it...i could never have kept the exotics as well as i am able to keep these native turtles... given what they need the ground hibernators are zero effort, nothing could go wrong....... the water hibernators require vigilance when it's below freezing, a lot can go wrong.......
i do still keep some remnant R.P.Manni, from the 1990's..... a tropical species which set up with what they need do well outside in northeast ohio 24/7/365 at minimum june through october......
one of the first two box turtle i got, he's been here for 25 winters..... one winter the female got accidentally shut into a wood box with a floor that was for the r.p.manni, she froze to death, had the box not had a floor i'm certain she would have survived, lesson learned, the heated box for the manni now has no floor or door......
Gus, 7 months, figuring out how to survive 100F.....84F today 74% humidity it's a breeze for him, 100F was good practice but a bit much.....
we have map turtles, wood turtles, blanding's turtles eastern softshell turtles, painted turtles, snapping turtles and spotted turtles all naturally occurring within 30 minutes from where i am sitting, along with at least 15 species of snakes......... the temperature range where these temperate reptiles naturally inhabit range from -20F to 104F..... temperature swings of 40F are common......... "micro-climates" they're there, but they are not that different, given a long enough stretch of conditions and those "micro-climates" disappear.......
i kept exotic reptiles and fish as long as i can remember, in 2000 i started keeping native turtles, turtles native to my area, outside 24/7/365.... scary at first, until i fully understood it and seen it...i could never have kept the exotics as well as i am able to keep these native turtles... given what they need the ground hibernators are zero effort, nothing could go wrong....... the water hibernators require vigilance when it's below freezing, a lot can go wrong.......
i do still keep some remnant R.P.Manni, from the 1990's..... a tropical species which set up with what they need do well outside in northeast ohio 24/7/365 at minimum june through october......
one of the first two box turtle i got, he's been here for 25 winters..... one winter the female got accidentally shut into a wood box with a floor that was for the r.p.manni, she froze to death, had the box not had a floor i'm certain she would have survived, lesson learned, the heated box for the manni now has no floor or door......
Gus, 7 months, figuring out how to survive 100F.....84F today 74% humidity it's a breeze for him, 100F was good practice but a bit much.....
