"65 degrees and high humidity are the bane of any turtle from dry country.



Someone posted this under the heading "just dodge the need to spend $95 next time"

What does that mean? Are ornates from "dry country" I will have to do some research on this. Everything that I've read about box turtles seem to indicate that Ornates need humidity the same as Eastern Box turtles. Any thoughts on this one?'





I believe they are referring to the fact that Ornates are a western subspecies of Boxies. It might answer some of your questions if you did read all you can on them. I did answer some of them in a post further down the thread... Please see Link to my post below. .... Think you missed it.... With all that's occured I can see why.





Regarding Nora, you may want to ask the Vet...via phone call (since you paid for his knowledge) about varying the injection sites ( since you will be giving it 7 days to prevent skin ulcerations/inflamations. Baytril aka enroflaxacin is a powerful antibiotic that can have side effects.... Vet may have explained them to you. I would watch Nora cautiously during the treatment.



Two months from now you will look back on all this as a piece of cake and will be posting to others on how to care for sick Ornates. Take all in stride and know- we all have been there.



Ric K.




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