Tips on Taking Care of a Box Turtle

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Tips on Taking Care of a Box Turtle
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• Box turtles are a great pet for beginners as they
  can be a lifelong pet when properly cared. Here
  we have shared few tips to keep your Box turtle
  healthy and happy
• Create an Outdoor Enclosure - Box turtles are
  wild animals that live outside. Hence create a
  safe place to live in your yard. It should have
  a high fence to make it predator proof, plenty of
  places to hide, no pesticides or Snarol and
  shallow bowls of water to soak in.

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• Feeding Box Turtles eat worms, snails, slugs
  and other small insects as well as some green
  vegetation. So if your garden does not have
  enough for your box turtle to eat, then buy some
  superworms at the local pet store and let him eat
  as many as he wants every day.
• Hibernation These turtles hibernate depending
  upon where you live and what kind of turtle you
  own. Turtles will stop eating during hibernation
  and a suitable place has to be provided. They
  need moisture so do not hibernate them in a box
  in your house.

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• Illness They normally close up their hinge when
  disturbed. If you can pull open the bottom shell
  easily with your finger and the turtle is acting
  sluggish, has nasal or eye discharge, has swollen
  eyes or has stopped eating, you need to see a
  vet. Ensure that you see a reptile vet who knows
  all about turtles.

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• Incubation of Eggs Your turtle may start and
  stop digging for several days before it finds the
  spot it likes to lay eggs. If you want to hatch
  them yourself, carefully dig them up, keeping
  them in the direction that they were laid. Put
  them in vermiculite with a baby food size jar of
  water buried next to them. Wrap with plastic, put
  on top of the frig or other warm place and wait
  three months.

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