I have recently began collecting wild box turtles off the roads near where I live. Today I brought home a male 3 toed box turtle and put him in the same cage as my female. In less than 15 minutes they had hooked up! About an hour later I went out there and the male had tried to dismount but was still hooked up so that they were connected by his genitalia. I even had to go flip him over once he managed to get loose. And sure enough about an hour and a half later they were at it again! This is my first experience in breeding box turtles and I am really excited. I was wondering if I should put a nesting box in there now, or if I should wait until closer to a month? Also, I have a diagram for constructing my own incubator, but Im not sure I completely understand it all, so I was wondering if anyone had a simple design for making ann incubator. Should I be adding any certain calcium supplements to the females diet? Thanks a lot, and if you have any input at all I would be more than glad to hear it.

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