New enclosure for my box.

dduek

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This enclosure have night time
Moon light heat and UVB .

And day time have natural sun light comes.
I placed this enclosure at near window.

She's been 4.5 years now.
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An enclosure by a window is not the best idea. They can over heat quickly as you can't control the heat. They also don't get any UVB from the sun as it won't go thru glass and screen.
Your Boxie needs a water source to get into. They like to swim. At least a large bowl he can easily get in and out of. Also the bowl you have in there needs to be lower sided. They also like to bury themselves. A deeper substrate would be great for him.
Beautiful turtle.
 

dduek

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An enclosure by a window is not the best idea. They can over heat quickly as you can't control the heat. They also don't get any UVB from the sun as it won't go thru glass and screen.
Your Boxie needs a water source to get into. They like to swim. At least a large bowl he can easily get in and out of. Also the bowl you have in there needs to be lower sided. They also like to bury themselves. A deeper substrate would be great for him.
Beautiful turtle.
thank you so much for your comment. I do have water bowl that he can sock and deep substrate(may not enough though^^;;) and i give him at least 2 times a week with natural sun light ( without window block ) in wide water pool he can totally sock up.

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I would sink both water bowls so they are level with the substrate. I larger swim bowl would be nice if possibly.
The substrate might be deep enough. It didn't look like it in the pic but if it's 3-4 inches thick that's good.
Nice enclosure by the way. Think I forgot to say that before.
 

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