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I finally got around to taking some more photos.
I want to figure out how to take a really close up photo.. I know the camera will do that I just haven't done the logical thing yet:
READ THE INSTRUCTIONS!
lol

I got this one of Kibbles going for a waxworm recently:

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PHRatz

Well at least Kibbles is eating. Nickie dug into the leaf litter compost in his virverium, and I haven't seen him again. I got so nervous after three days, that I tried to dig him out, and couldn't even find him. I had to put the 10 gal. vervarium on the kitchen table and pull out all the plants, and dig around. I finally found him, and gave him a good soak. He seemed fine..eyes clear..active enough. So I tried to feed him ...wax worms, red wigglers, and small meal worms, but he just kept trying to climb out of the little box that I put him in to feed him. After about a half hour, I put him back in the vervirum, and he ran for cover, and dug himself back in. The temp. in there reads between 75..78. and the humidity index is all the way up to the tropical index. Tom from Turtle Tails said that in the wild these babies go under until next spring sometimes. I am at my "wits end"!
These pictures were taken when I first got him. He went around and investigated the whole set up. He also was eating the first few days, but only in his vervirium, never outside. So I tried to put some food in there, but he ran for the hills.
Terry

Terry ,

Try this...Soak him in 85-90 fegree water for an hour. Dry him gently

Try putting him back in his vervirium.... and have the temps up to 88 degrees. Dim to low medium light is best for wary feeders.

Cut up the red wigglers into pieces no bigger than 1/8 inch long. With them put whatever food he had fed on before and make sure they are small enough. ( you may need to cut them up too)

Give him time and seculsion. Make sure he cannot see out of the area.

Keep us posted.

Ric K.

I tend to not do things the way all I read says that I should. This comes from keeping Shell E first then Hope, then later Jane was somewhat of a patient & finally Chip.. all of them were (& in the case of Chip still is) "home hospital patients."
With those turtles who needed to be kept in a hospital tank without substrate & without the natural setting that most people keep box turtles in I had to soak them daily, clean the tank while they're soaking then after they're done soaking I feed them. All feeding has always been done outside the tank(s) they stay in.
All the adults learned routine within about a week & they all know when it's time to start the bathing & feeding every day.
Now during the time they were learning routine I found that some of them could not care less if I'm around while they eat... others do not want to be watched so I have to put the food in then leave for a while. When I hear them begin to walk around I know they're finished & I can come back in.

When I took in the baby Kibbles in geeze when was that? Nov. I think.. I just soaked baby Kibbles in that little critter keeper while the adults took turns in their bathtub & then fed the baby the same way.. in a little critter keeper outside the tank it lives in.
So far that baby has never refused a meal except when I've tried to feed a commercial food. I think baby is used to routine just as the adults are.

Frankly I'm surprised myself that the baby has been so easy to care for and easy to feed. This baby is like Shell E & Jane.. baby does not care at all if I can be seen during feeding.. baby will eat no matter what as long as the food offered is something it wants.
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PHRatz

>>I finally got around to taking some more photos.
>>I want to figure out how to take a really close up photo.. I know the camera will do that I just haven't done the logical thing yet:
>>PHRatz

Check and see if your camera has a macro setting. It will alllow you to get much closer and stay in focus, than with a convential lens...approximately 3-6 inches depending on your camera.

Most digital cameras have this option.

So how old is this cutie?

Ric K.

>>Check and see if your camera has a macro setting. It will alllow you to get much closer and stay in focus, than with a convential lens...approximately 3-6 inches depending on your camera.

Ric it does have that feature it's just that I haven't figured it out yet. (it's called being lazy lol)

>>So how old is this cutie?

I'm going to figure that this baby was hatched in spring of 2006 because the kid who brought it to me is the same kid who found another baby last June in his backyard. That baby went to a local nature center's outdoor wildlife area because that family has dogs in the backyard. Then in early Nov. I believe (I wrote it down need to find it) the same kid's parents were re-landscaping the backyard when this one, Kibbles, was dug up by accident.
These babies look so much alike I'm convinced they're from the same clutch & so more than likely Kibbles was hatched sometime last spring.
Now I wonder how many more of them are in that area & did those babies make it in a neighborhood full of dogs & people? I hope so.
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PHRatz