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first, the story of how I got my box turtles:
I've kept these turtles befor and 2 years ago I was given a box turtle by a friend who was moving to Utah. I keep wild turtles that I find for a short while before releasing them, well apparently they had bred and I hadn't noticed cause the next fall I found a year old eastern in my old turtle pen! Then last summer, I found two females and kept them with my male. One was already gravid but I didn't know until I found the babies in september. I had put out a boiled egg for my adults to eat and the next day I found a tiny little hatchling eating what was left! I looked around and found two more(both under the water dish). Then later in September, I was given another little baby that had been found on a tenis court. Now all four hatchlings and a yearling live together in a 20 gallon long tank with peatmoss as a substrate. Ther're all doing great, but I was wondering what all I should be feeding them. Until now, they've only eaten earthworms and a few will eat crickets, and them there's the one that ate the egg. How can I get them to eat other foods? also, they only wasnt to eat if theor food is moving, but I suppose that that is normal.
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T-spoon
my menagerie:
1.1 Ball Pythons
1.0 Amazon Tree Boa
1.0 Corn Snake
1.0 Dumeril's Boa
1.2 Bearded Dragons
2.1 Crested Geckos
2.1 Sudan Pated Lizards
0.0.5 Eastern Painted Turtles
1.2.5 Eastern Box Turtles
1.1 Eastern Red-spotted Newts
1.0 Northern Mockingbird
0.3 Chickens
2.0 Cats
1.1 Ferrets
0.0.40 some kind of goldfish

Well since nobody else replied I will give it a go.
Try putting some chopped veggies and fruit on a plate and or Tetra's Reptomin, then cut up some live worms into small pieces then put the worm pieces on top of the other food and present the mixed food plate to the hatchlings while the worm pieces are still wriggling. They will probably take in some of the other food items by accident while eating the worm pieces at first, but in time they will be more likely to eat a variety. Hope that helps.
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1.0 pastel ball python
0.1 mojave ball python
0.1 normal ball python
0.2 3-toed box turtles
2.3 eastern box turtles
0.0.5 3-striped mud turtle
1.0 northern diamondback terrapin
2.1 tiger salamander
1.1 red-sided garter
1.0 anerythristic red-sided garter
1.1 Iowa snow plains garter
1.1 Het butter stripe cornsnake
0.1 anerythristic motley cornsnake
1.1 Blue garter (Puget Sound)

Now is the time to get these guys started on a wholesome omnivore diet. Research on wild turtles show box turtles eat lots of plant material. To keep your turtles healthy and promote a long life-they need plant foods, too. Of course they won't eat plant matter if they get their fill of insects all the time. You must begin to limit the amount of insects they get and provide vegetables and fruits they like to eat.

I could write a short essay right now about it, but I've done that already You just need to go to my website and look at the breeding chapter and look for Care of the Hatchlings. www.boxturtlesite.info/bred.html.
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Tess
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