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casichelydia
at Thu Jan 18 00:40:28 2007 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by casichelydia ]
Ornate boxes come from dry country. Drier than T. carolina. They're like many arid country tortoises - their habitat is dry (except after occasional rain), but they have many temperature and humidity OPTIONS from multiple burrows/pallets.
Your turtle has not been given options. You have OVERcared by providing only a couple measures you thought were right on the money, and now the turtle has told you you're wrong. Providing exact measures is the wrong approach to have as a reptile keeper.
Provide a range of temperature options, humidity options and let the most knowledgable individual pick which are right for the time. The most knowledgable individual is the turtle. And the turtle's knowledge will cause its preferences to change, depending on the time of day, what it's eaten, so on. No vet can give you better info than that. No vet can beat the reptile subject in knowing what's best. So all you have to do is provide for the reptile's OPTIONS.
OPTIONS are everything to captive reptiles. Let this soak in, then we can talk about ways to adjust your situation.
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RE: dry country??? - casichelydia, Thu Jan 18 00:40:28 2007