Improved box turtle enclosure

[Cmv]

I need to do some digging for the pics before I completed this, but it has come a long way since last year. Don’t mind the dirty water, I can change it every 5 minutes and you know how that goes.

 

[janevicki]

Very beautiful! Love your plants you have in the yard. Have you thought of adding a small pond? My boxies love water. When it get dirty I spray out the water.
Your boxie is going to love their new diggs!

Great job! ? ?

 

[Cmv]

Very beautiful! Love your plants you have in the yard. Have you thought of adding a small pond? My boxies love water. When it get dirty I spray out the water.
Your boxie is going to love their new diggs!

Great job! ? ?

I like to think I’m doing something right. I have 2 gravid girls due to lay any day now so that makes me feel good about it all. I’ve been thinking about adding a shallow pond with filtration but I’m not sure how I’d get in power out there for a filter, but I have a few ideas kicking around in my head. Either way I have to do frequent water changes because of the hot California sun (and thanks to the pandemic I have nothing else to do) but it won’t be so much of an issue once the shade plants grow in.

 

[Relic]

If you could find some flat stones/rocks to surround the water, it might cut back on the dirt the turtles drag into it...

 

[ColleenT]

i have used rubbery- pavers you find at home depot to place all around the water tub. it helps.

 

[MichaelL]

Love the pen! I love how it's also part garden with the tomatoes! Box turtle pen that provides food! Lol

 

[Cmv]

Love the pen! I love how it's also part garden with the tomatoes! Box turtle pen that provides food! Lol

I have tomatoes, a grave vine, strawberries, cucumbers, and soon I’ll have summer squash planted. It goes to the turtles but of course I might end up eating some of what I harvest ?

 

[MichaelL]

I have tomatoes, a grave vine, strawberries, cucumbers, and soon I’ll have summer squash planted. It goes to the turtles but of course I might end up eating some of what I harvest ?

Love it! Gardening always comes in handy when you have turtles or tortoises ?