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I just bought a 5o gallon storage tub.
i think i am going to cut a little piece of it out (like a doggy door)
i am gonna fence off an area for it.
do you think it would work? would it know how to use the door?
i have the turtle out in the tub now. i don't have a configure gate yet. ( i think thats what they call it, like thoose half circular gates.)

i had a pic but having trouble with my photo software.

I dont think it will work. If given a choice i doubt the turtles will use it. I have proided shelter to my 3 eastern box turtles but they prefer to just stay in there leaf pile that is out in the rain and weather. I know u and me would prefer to live in a nice clean dry place. But box turltes like the wet and damp conditions.

Jack
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Jack

my turtles prefer the leaf litter as well, but it is not rare for me to find them in the hide boxes i have prepared for them. go ahead and give them a box to hide in and let them make the choice..."it is better to have it and not need it, than to need it and not have it," said a wise man once. i think, however, that a 50 gallon hide box is a bit too roomy. give em one that is not much bigger than they are and they will probably use it more often...
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