>>In a tank situation, humidity would be pretty easy to keep under control. I wasn't sure if you'd try to keep the turtle outside. You'd have to have a fairly large tank for an adult ornate wood.

Yeah that's just it. A tank for a hatchling would be no big deal but what about later? I couldn't keep an adult outside with the box turtles. It's too hot & dry in the summer for an adult to be outside anyway even if I created a space for it to be alone.



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>>You sound like a compassionate individual. Also, you seem to dote on your animals in a way that I haven't since I was very young...it's endearing. We should all treat our captives that way. Unfortunately, many of us fall into the trap of having too many pets. I don't want to tell you what to do, but it really doesn't sound like your heart is in this. I have no doubt that, if you brought another little turtle home, you'd bond with it. But, the extra work may make you a little bitter.



Thanks for the compliments.

I do tend to hover over them, I need time every day to be able to spend some of it with each one every single day so that I can be sure they're ok. There's never a day that goes by that each one of them aren't looked at, and given whatever it is they need that day. I don't think I'd be bitter, it's husband who may end up that way. We both remember when I said I would never take in another long lived species other than a dog. After I said that we took in 4 of the 5 box, the tortoise, the lizard, and the bird. However... the tortoise & the bird are 2 that HE decided were not leaving here. He's a sucker for them too, he just doesn't like to admit it. lol



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>>I used to work at a vet, so people would bring me tons of hurt turtles and even those they didn't want anymore. They seemed to think that I had an endless supply of food and housing for turtles. I had to start turning them away. Then, I found that I really enjoyed helping to find good homes for turtles that truly did need rescueing. I placed one blind juvenile box turtle with a little 8 year old girl. She was so enthusiastic about the turtle, she researched for months while the turtle healed from its wounds in my care. (It's head had been nearly crushed by a car...an amazing story of recovery!). I still receive updates from her and the turtle is doing famously. You may want to consider helping to find these hatchlings good homes instead of taking them yourself. Sorry for the long post.





Don't worry about post length, I'm more guilty of being long winded than you are. LOL

That's so neat about the kid who adopted the blind turtle from you. It's great when adoption works out isn't it?



If any of these eggs hatch, that's exactly what my vet will do- adopt most of them out, probably keep one for herself. She takes in & adopts out all sorts of animals all the time. I don't have the room she has. We just got a new tank for the mud turtle, got his new "furniture" in but right now he's still not in his new home because we're still fiddling around with where to put all this new stuff. We're going to have to rearrange some furniture & move the tarantulas to another spot so he can take over the spot they're in. The vet wants me to have a hatchling for me, I kind of want to do that because they are so beautiful but it's another set up & another turtle who can't live with any of the others sooo, we'll just have to see & there's still no guarantee that any of these eggs will hatch.

Even though I can't decide right now, I want to learn more about them, then if it happens or not either way I've still learned something more about another turtle species.

Learning something new is a good thing no matter what.

Thanks for finding the links. I'll take a look at them.
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