not sure if this was really cool to do or not but don't think i bothered her. she always been friendly one.
amazing how she took hours to make the nest. a perfect little chamber...and then use legs to kick eggs forward for placement. it's crazy.
Curious if there's an easy way to tell gulfies from eastern box babies?
I ordered an eastern and its seems to look like the gulfie pics i see on web and it looks a little different than my first eastern baby i had. it is smaller though.
new baby has more color in face and the line down the...
looks like our eastern box turtles are settling in here in NJ. They all (3 adults & 1 juvenile) stopped eating 2 weeks ago. I started adding grass clippings & leaves & loosening soil and have not seen them at all this week. Seems a bit early this year....anybody elses go down yet in midatlantic...
my adult eastern box turtles plastron seems to change color. right now they are almost black. swore they were light tan before. is this normal? they are healthy and eating.
Hi. We "inherited" a baby eastern box turtle this summer here in NJ. I don't think this guy has been thru a winter yet (little bigger than a quarter). He did well all summer in an enclosure we built outside. Ate worms & bugs non-stop. So as October rolled around, we made decision to bring him...