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Hello all,
Over the years I have had a passion for turtles, and it has been over the last few weeks that I've actually been able to live out that passion. I have always wanted a turtle but disrtactions, and different animals got in the way. I now have three rescue hatchling snapping turtles(will be released in spring, at Pionery(Provincial park, in Ontario), and they are all eating GREAT!

A pssion within a passion though are tortoises! I love tortoises, and I'd love one, but the thing is there to DARN expensive. Boxturtles remind me of tortoises and I think there cute, but I've never seen them in the petstores.

Where can you find boxturtles?
Does anyone know of breeders?
What price range do they go around?
Does anybody own them?
Other help would be appreciated,

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Steven and;
- two cockatiels
- two budgies
- orange cheeked waxbill
- firebellied toad
- japanese firebellied newt
- three baby snapping turtles
- juvy common garter snake

Eastern Box turtles run about $150 in petstores in the GTA and are fairly common. They are very different from tortoises in diet, temperature requirements and personality. North American box turtles are terrestrial like tortoises, but most of the Asian box turtle species are semi-aquatic.

HTH

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Adam
http://anraviary.cjb.net
0.0 Diamondback Terrapin, 0.0 African Sidenecked Turtle, 0.0 Sulcata, 0.1 Redfoot, 1.0 Western Hognose snake, 1.0 Crested Gecko

I have a bunch of box turtles...The store I work at sells them also for $150.
Matt

Hello Matt

I am very interested in getting some box turtles as I have wanted to get some since I found out about them (over 16 years ago)

anyways I was just wondering where you were located, how much you wanted for them and what species they were as you mentioned you had some

anyways you can eather reply to this message or email me at barred_owl2002@yahoo.com

thanks
chris