JordynNykoleee
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Hello! My name is Jordyn and I live in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. I met my partner 2 & a half years ago, & she had a box turtle named Tuck. She’s had him for 8 years now, and he was wild caught. Not ideal I know, but she was young and he was captured by a family member and gifted to her. So she’s stuck with him now! Lol. We aren’t sure what breed he is so if someone knows that would be great! Well, she wasn’t very knowledgeable about proper care of a box turtle and I had never had a reptile before, only cats and dogs, so I had no idea either. Over the last 2 years i’ve tried my best to do research and do what I could to help. She was feeding him a pretty bland diet, iceberg lettuce and some fruit. Not ideal at all, we know that now. But he recently fell ill and I took him to the vet and he has an infection and is just generally unwell. The vet gave him a vitamin booster shot and sent us home with antibiotic shots for a week to kill the infection. The vet told us to also start feeding him live food, which my partner had never done for him. So we bought some night crawlers and I gave him them today for the first time and he’s eaten 4 already! He loves them. He’s already perked up so much and is super alert and active, versus being dormant and lethargic just yesterday.
So my question is what I could do to improve his indoor habitat? He has reptile bark as a substrate, we purchased a UVB bulb yesterday, have been misting his enclosure to maintain humidity and I also gave him some kale, spinach, sweet potato and jackfruit chopped up to munch on inbetween feeds. Any and all critics are welcome! I just want to do better for our little baby.
So my question is what I could do to improve his indoor habitat? He has reptile bark as a substrate, we purchased a UVB bulb yesterday, have been misting his enclosure to maintain humidity and I also gave him some kale, spinach, sweet potato and jackfruit chopped up to munch on inbetween feeds. Any and all critics are welcome! I just want to do better for our little baby.