lisa127 said:terryo said:I was just thinking of something. If your boxies are hatchlings or small babies they most likely won't find the worms anyway. The worms will go under a rock or the water dish..feeding dish...etc. If I keep an adult in for any reason, they will always be digging looking for a worm or something. The really small ones, I'll see getting a pill bug, but rarely see them finding a big worm. Oh...don't put any meal worms in there. I lost two hatchlings years ago from meal worms that turned into big beetles. They ate the hatchlings and left two perfect shells. A real horror.
Oh my, Terry, that is so incredibly sad. No, I wasn't planning on mealworms in there. My boxies are 1.5 years old and 8 months old. 3 1/3 inches SCL and 2 inches SCL. Maybe I'll just keep feeding the way I have been for now. Substrate is such a frustrating issue!
turtlemann2 said:did you know native american did not eat box turtles? not because they werent abundant, not because they didnt taste good. but because of the wild mushrooms and fungus the boxies would injest. these toxins didnt hurt the turtle but were stored in the fat and meat. so that when a native american would consume a box turtle he would get sick from the toxins and sometimes die? just goes to show that turtles have a high tolerance for (non edible) plants