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casichelydia
at Tue Jan 16 20:35:34 2007 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by casichelydia ]
...me. Next time. Just dodge the need to spend $95 next time by giving the turtle choices.
By making your turtle live in a pneumonia-maker and not giving it any choice other than that, you'll have to be prepped for a long life of vet visits, or a short life, depending on the vet's and the turtle's luck.
65 degrees and high humidity are the bane of any turtle from dry country. Any of them can take it for some time. They scrape through it, that's living. But, they don't take it at length.
65 degrees doesn't slow the metabolism to hibernation. Many box turtles will be active on days of that ambient temperature, so it must not disable them. But, they can find and choose spots warmer than that, unless they're in a dark, humid box.
Always give a gradient, from below the useable to above the useable. The turtle will make the decisions. All you have to do is provide for the needed choices.
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- bad eye problem - terryo, Mon Jan 15 13:42:36 2007
- RE: bad eye problem - Rouen, Mon Jan 15 14:05:12 2007
- RE: bad eye problem - StephF, Mon Jan 15 14:27:55 2007
- RE: bad eye problem - kensopher, Mon Jan 15 18:36:58 2007
- RE: bad eye problem - LisaOKC, Mon Jan 15 18:53:42 2007
- RE: bad eye problem - kensopher, Mon Jan 15 19:14:00 2007
- RE: bad eye problem - terryo, Mon Jan 15 22:51:43 2007
- NO, NO, Terryo! - kensopher, Tue Jan 16 06:55:47 2007
- RE: NO, NO, Terryo! - Terryo, Tue Jan 16 12:33:50 2007
- RE: NO, NO, Terryo! - kensopher, Tue Jan 16 12:56:54 2007
- RE: NO, NO, Terryo! - terryo, Tue Jan 16 13:09:19 2007
 just dodge the need to spend $95 next ti - casichelydia, Tue Jan 16 20:35:34 2007- RE: NO, NO, Terryo! - Melgrj7, Thu Jan 18 19:27:07 2007
- RE: NO, NO, Terryo! - terryo, Tue Jan 16 13:40:36 2007
- RE: bad eye problem - LisaOKC, Mon Jan 15 23:06:49 2007
- RE: Bad Eye Problem - streamwalker, Tue Jan 16 06:48:26 2007
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