New Digs for the Turtle

So I’ve got this turtle… for the last year, maybe a little more the turtle was just cruising around the house with out any one place to call home. I thought it was neat cause he got to run around where ever he felt like going and it was always exciting to play a good game of find the turtle… he’s some where in this house, but where is he?

At any rate Chelsie brought it to my attention that these were not proper living arrangements for the little guy and that he needed more. Admittedly he’d been pealing a lot lately and it appeared to be due to a lack of hydration.

This alluded to me spending all Saturday morning researching box turtles online. Turns out the little guys like it between 70-80 degrees F at a relative humidity no less than 20% (more is always better) and require a large water dish that they can sit in to absorb water through their water absorbers located somewhere not in their mouth.

This then led to a trip to PetsMart and dropping 60 shells in order to create the proper environment for our little one. We got this super sweet stuff called “Bed-a-Beast.” It’s made of ground coconut shells and comes as a small brick that expands in a bucket of water to make a moist terrarium substraight suitable for turtle habitation. Two different types of over-priced special box turtle food were also purchased as through research it was discovered that our turtles favorite food, Banana, gives him the shits… so that’s why he spent all that time in the bathroom last week!