Excellent General Care Article

[Hunahpu]

I ran across this article this afternoon and thought it was very well written and informative. I thought I'd pass it along in case anyone else is interested. Its beyond the basics, but not so detailed to be overwhelming.

Box Turtle Care

 

[RedfootsRule]

I was all in until they considered twenty-gallon aquariums or concrete mixing trays suitable enclosures for box turtles, and newspaper, astro-turf, indoor/outdoor carpeting, straw, hay, medium wood chips, or alfalfa pellets a "good" substrate. And then continued to consider soil a bad substrate....Needless to say, I quickly dismissed this as irrelevant and misleading. Nice of you to post, however.

 

[terryo]

Thank you for the article, but I have to agree with Peter. I can't imagine keeping one in a 20 gal. tank and the substrate....speechless here.

 

[RedfootsRule]

Terry,
I saw your name and then the picture, and then had to check the name again...You changed it =0.
All other information looked very good and informative, but then there were things like the housing and substrate that sounded like they came from Petco....

 

[Hunahpu]

Well, sorry for a displeasing post. I don't agree with everything in there either, but I have yet to find an article that I do completely agree with. The mods are welcome to remove the post, since I can't, and its apparently horrible information. Pity, I thought a lot of it was very useful.

 

[RedfootsRule]

Hunahpu,
Its not a displeasing post, and in fact we thank you for posting it. MOST of the information is very informative; it just needs to be noted NOT to follow the housing and substrate information...The rest is pretty good. It doesn't need to be removed, it just needs to be guaranteed that no one will walk away with the wrong information from it.

 

[Yvonne G]

No...It's quite ok, Huna!! You done good, kid. For the most part it IS an informative article.

 

[terryo]

Absolutely! The only way we learn is by reading all these posts and it's great that people post new articles that they find.

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Terry,
I saw your name and then the picture, and then had to check the name again...You changed it =0.
All other information looked very good and informative, but then there were things like the housing and substrate that sounded like they came from Petco....

OT...yes, I changed it. That picture was taken a few years ago, and I have to get a more recent one. LOL