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does anyone no what turtle this is we think it is a carolina three toed box turtle .

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid16/p71574bde543fc3fef84b8f725c641029/fdf13af3.jpg

Probably a three-toed, but would need a better look to be sure. How many toes does it have on each rear foot?

Looks like a 3-toed to me, but a better picture would help. Looks like its had/has some nutrition issues.

>>does anyone no what turtle this is we think it is a carolina three toed box turtle .
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>>http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid16/p71574bde543fc3fef84b8f725c641029/fdf13af3.jpg
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Greg
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It looks mainly three-toed like, but it could also be a bland colored eastern. Do you know it's history? Can you get some more photos? (if you can, do top, bottom, side, front and back shots in good bright light with a clean turtle).

btw, that housing arrangement is not the best... hopefully that is a past or temporary home.

she was bought from a garden center about 8 years ago , a couple of years later she had problems with her shell which lasted about a year. she has 3 toes on her back legs.

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid63/p0eeb26fac1f58d27dbb637e4b7bd6b57/fc17d2a4.jpg

I'm leaning greatly towards three-toed, but not because of the three toes (I have had easterns with three-toes and three-toeds with four toes... so it's kinda variable).

She does seem like my very bland eastern female, but her scute borders around the marginals seems to have that dark edging common in three-toeds.

In either case she needs to have her nails trimmed, move outdoors, and be provided with deep soft sandy soil that is kept moist to burrow in, a nice deep dish to soak in water covering her whole shell, and to be fed on a nice flat slate rock (it would be good if there's lots of walking on bricks and slate to wear her nails further once they are trimmed.

She reminds me a lot of a rehab we did on an eastern female. She should do fine with a little tlc.

I would agree - three toed - most likely long term captive based on the nails and shell growth - the beak seems to be in pretty good shap, not like the long term captives that I have seen with long nails and beak.

Use a cat or bird nail cutter, and only trim off a tiny bit at time.

Looks like a nice little female - have any history?

Bill

we have no history the garden center where we got her is now gone, does anyone have any caresheets on eastern box turtles ? could she live in the garden (i live in the uk)? does anyone have any pictures of eastern box turtles (to convince my girlfreind)?
thnx terry

Here is a female eastern boxie T. carolina.

and here is another.

i found this pic while i was surfing , dont you think she could be one of these. the only thing the site said is that it is three toed box turtle ,dosnt help find the locality.

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does anyone no the locality of it.

These guys range throughout the midwest. (east Tx., east Ok., Ar., La., southern Al., Ms.