Steph you have no real knowledge to base any of you're assumptions on. You're talking to advanced Herpetoculturist who have forgot more about the subject matter than you know. Basically I think your an argumentive kid on a little league team trying to play ball with the Major league. Your outmatched and you'd look better telling your friends how enlightened you are but all your doing here is providing myself and others cheap entertainment. I believe your Box Turtles would do far better released. Box Turtles in situ roam large areas in their home range which is something you can't provide. Also Box Turtles have a very low reproduction rate and most should NOT be placed in captivity except for breeding programs. There is a plethora of U.S. c.b. turtles that are similar to keep and pose no threat in reducing already diminishing populations of native Terrapene ssp. For instance for fun we hatch Rhinoclemmys p. manni here like chickens. They're prettier than most Box Turtles and have similar needs. Why do you want to put pressure on poor Box Turtles already under pressure for many reasons but yet "know that Pythons are injurious" and that us releasing them is why their here ? Do you know why most Box Turtles now are protected in almost every state they occur? It's because numbers are dwindling in nature. Yet you by your own admission are a beginning hobbiest. That's like a kid who gets his first firearm. Most kids get a BB gun but you getting a fully automatic weapon...Yup, I believe your a Herpocrit like John says and worse without a whit of real life experience or ability...
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Tom Crutchfield
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