Three toed pictures

[Millerlite]

Figured I posted a thread about my mexican musk turtle why not my boxies. Here are a few of my box turtles. They are both rescues and the babies are from the female she laid eggs 3 months after I got her. Now this is my 2nd year having her and she's laid 6 eggs this ear so far.

Male- name boxie




Female- name Torta







Last but not least the babies. I only kept two of them the others went to my friends and other keepers









Kyle

 

[naturalman91]

i love seeing pictures of boxies

 

[Maggie Cummings]

Do those babies actually eat the kale? I have an Eastern about the same size and when I first got him he would eat some fruit. But once he tasted red wigglers he won't eat anything else. I'm afraid to give him some tuff love and force him to eat better as his shell was pretty soft and I worry about his health. His shell has hardened up a lot but he still would rather not eat unless it's a worm...

 

[lisa127]

They are beautiful! Thanks so much for sharing. I have two boxies also, and both were adopted from a wildlife rehab and rescue.

 

[Saleama]

Do those babies actually eat the kale? I have an Eastern about the same size and when I first got him he would eat some fruit. But once he tasted red wigglers he won't eat anything else. I'm afraid to give him some tuff love and force him to eat better as his shell was pretty soft and I worry about his health. His shell has hardened up a lot but he still would rather not eat unless it's a worm...

I ofered mine spring mix cut into small pieces about 3 -4 times a week. For the longest time, I had to remove all of it. They just didn't seem interested. I still kept doing it. After almost a year, they have started eating their salad and fruits! If you have a glass house for them, try crickets. I dump 50 - 60 at a time in with my 6 babies. They hunt them down like a grou[ of Raptors in a Jurasic Park movie!

 

[lisa127]

That is something I will never feed....crickets! I hate those things. I don't even buy them for my lizards. I can feed just about any kinds of worms to my turtles and lizards, but no crickets or roaches.

One of my turtles will eat spring mix readily. The other one will only eat it if it is coated in something like soaked reptomin or organic canned dog food.

 

[Maggie Cummings]

I ofered mine spring mix cut into small pieces about 3 -4 times a week. For the longest time, I had to remove all of it. They just didn't seem interested. I still kept doing it. After almost a year, they have started eating their salad and fruits! If you have a glass house for them, try crickets. I dump 50 - 60 at a time in with my 6 babies. They hunt them down like a grou[ of Raptors in a Jurasic Park movie!

That's how this baby hunts his worms. I used to feed all my box turtles crickets until the cat knocked over the container one time and I had a million crickets loose in the house and found some in my bed. No more crickets!...yuck

 

[bouaboua]

That's how this baby hunts his worms. I used to feed all my box turtles crickets until the cat knocked over the container one time and I had a million crickets loose in the house and found some in my bed. No more crickets!...yuck

Holy CRICKETS! ! ! ! ! !! Funny but not funny when you found them in bed.

 

[bouaboua]

Figured I posted a thread about my mexican musk turtle why not my boxies. Here are a few of my box turtles. They are both rescues and the babies are from the female she laid eggs 3 months after I got her. Now this is my 2nd year having her and she's laid 6 eggs this ear so far.

Male- name boxie




Female- name Torta







Last but not least the babies. I only kept two of them the others went to my friends and other keepers









Kyle

What a nice set-up and family. I like it.

 

[Saleama]

Holy CRICKETS! ! ! ! ! !! Funny but not funny when you found them in bed.

LOL...Mine go straight into 1 of 3 fish tanks. I have the tank the babies are in, the tank I put the juveniles in when they get crickets and the tank I put the female crickets in in hopes they will lay eggs. No way it gets knocked over. The ones in the tanks with turtles don't last long. They usually hunt up all the good survivers within a day or two.

 

[Rhodie]

Loved the photos. Thanks for posting them.

 

[Millerlite]

Thanks everyone! As far as veggies go mine eat it all, anything my tortoises eat they eat, I also feed them worms, snails, Rollie pollies, and fruit. Since I hatched them and got them eating I started them on greens, took aehe but now they both eat greens anytime I put it down.

I don't feed crickets really just because I don't have the patients to gut load them. I stick to red wigglers cuz I have a bin and they multiply. Also plan to breed some pill bugs, seems easy enough.