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Care Sheets
Box Turtle Substrate Guide — What We Actually Use
Substrate is the most-overlooked, most-mis-stocked piece of a box turtle enclosure. The pet-store starter bag — usually a chunky bark…
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Turtle Information
How Long Do Box Turtles Live? Lifespan Reality, Wild & Captive
The honest answer to “how long do box turtles live?” is: nobody really knows the upper bound, because well-kept box…
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Care Sheets
Box Turtle Hibernation Guide — How We Brumate Our Own Animals Safely
More box turtles die during hibernation than at any other point in the year. Most of those deaths are preventable.…
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Care Sheets
Box Turtle Enclosure Setup — Indoor & Outdoor Builds That Actually Work
A box turtle enclosure is not a tank. It is not a “habitat kit”. It is a small piece of…
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Care Sheets
UVB & Lighting for Box Turtles — The Complete Setup Guide
The single piece of equipment that most often goes wrong in box turtle keeping is the UVB tube. It is…
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Health Information
Box Turtle Health Problems & Vet Care — Recognising Illness Early
The single most useful sentence in any reptile health post is this: “If you are not sure, the answer is…
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Care Sheets
Box Turtle Diet — A Complete Feeding Guide for Healthy Terrapene
If you feed your box turtle pellets and lettuce, you are slowly making it sick. Box turtles are opportunistic omnivores…
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Articles
Toys & Activities for Turtles
It’s a common belief that turtles are slow, lazy, and hate interaction—a common belief as well as a common misconception.…
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Care Sheets
Box Turtle Care Sheet
Have you inadvertently found yourself with a new pet box turtle, or you’re searching and wondering if one might make…
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Turtle Species
Coahuilan Box Turtle
The Coahuilan Box Turtle (Terrapene Coahuila, Schmidt and Owens, 1944) is a box turtle species and is also sometimes referred…
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