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HI! My turtle, Pickle, is 1 and a half years old and has been kept indoor since he hatched. I am building an outdoor enclosure some time in the next month because its been very warm outside. He's been spending most of the day outside for the past week since its been so warm. I used top soil...

I just finished Pickle's new enclosure. It's two 40 gallon Rubbermaid tubs with the sides cut out and taped together with weather proof duct tape. I used 50% topsoil and 50% coconut coir for substrate. I've got three clay pots as hides and some moist miss around them for him to hide in. I'm...

Hi! This is my new boxie enclosure. Pickle is 11 months old and 2.5 inches long and 2 inches wide. I used two 40 gallon rubbermaid containers and cut the sides out and duct taped them together. My substrate is half coconut coir half topsoil. I will be adding some plants to the enclosure soon. I...

Hi! My boxie, Pickle, is 10 months old and is 2.5 inches long and 2 inches wide. His hinge seems pretty well developed because the other day I accidentally scared him and he closed up inside his shell. He is happily eating red wiggles every other day and is offered strawberries, mushrooms...

I have my box turtle hatchling, Pickle, in a 41 liter sweater box. It's 17 inches wide. How would I attach a long uvb light to the enclosure without melting the plastic or letting it be too close to the substrate and make it too hot? Right now I'm using a MVB that I don't like. I have a black...

I finally caught Pickle eating some chopped up kale, banana, mushroom, and cantaloupe the other day. I put his red wigglers in the mixture but left the veggies in his enclosure after his feeding. I saw him snacking on it when I went to change his water for the night. He's almost five months old...

My brother in law used to work at a phoenix worm farm and said that they would be good for my hatchling box turtle. He's three months old and has almost doubled in size from the day he hatched. He typically eats meal worms and red wigglers (I cut those into pieces--yuck). I put leafy greens...

So pickle (my hatchlng boxie) is a little over a month old and is doing great. He LOVES pill bugs and I've recently started giving him red wigglers cut into small pieces. He likes those too. My question is, since I have an inside terrarium (a rubbermaid sweater box with a plexiglass lid) can I...

So Pickle is very sleepy all the time. I know hatchlings sleep. When I dig him up to soak him, he opens his eyes and moves around. But the fact that he buries himself so deep makes me think he might be trying to go into brumation. I keep half the enclosure at about 85 degrees and the other half...

I am using an infrared heat bulb that doesnt put out light and a dim incandescent bulb for light in my enclosure. The enclosure is an under bed sweater box (rubbermaid). I am having trouble keeping the humidity up in the enclosure. The infrared light dries out the substrate (coconut coir). I've...

My name is Dani and I'm new to the forum. I have lots of critters: 2 cats, 3 angelfish, 3 bleeding heart tetras, three spotted danios, an african dwarf frog, 3 hermit crabs, and, my newest addition is a hatchling box turtle. I know raising hatchlings can be very difficult. I think I've read...

Hi! I have a four day old captive bred EBT hatchling in an indoor enclosure made of a sweater box with coconut coir and sphagnum moss with a paint tray for water and several hides. I also use a heat/uvb light placed 12 inches from the substrate. I keep the light on for 12 hours per day (it's...