Hello and greetins from Costa Rica!!!
Since I was about seven years (Now twenty three), I have grown and taken care of several turtles, most of them aquatic, a girlfriend once got a box turtle (Named "Pachinga"
, and her dog attacked it once, therefore she handle it to me, and therefore I got my first baby box turtle, it has a little piece of her shell rippen of near the left bottom leg, but it wasn't very damaged and now she is recuperating her shell.
However, up to where I know, this turtle appeared in my girlfriend's yard, and wasn't breeded in captivity as none of the neighbors knew about this turtle, I installed a terrarium for this little pal, here in Costa Rica the sun conditions and humidity are more than enough for taking care of reptiles, but "Pachinga" doesn't want to eat *anything*, and is very aggresive, I don't know where does she get the enery to try to attack me every time I take it out from the terarrium, nor when I left in the floor and runs to the first dark and mist place that is around.
I think that the ambient is very stressful to her, but I'm very worried about her nutrition, I have tried with apples, lettuce, ham, turkey, turtle food, and now I'm waiting for a can of snails from ZooMed that I ordered last week from US.
The only times that I saw she eating were when she wanted to bite me but instead of my finger she got a piece of carrot or lettuce, wich she ingested...
Does anybody have any recomendations or advice? Here are some pictures of her (See the "Pictures of Pachinga!" below my signature, she is very cute!)
Another thing, I recall calling this turtle "her", but maybe is a "him"!!!
I don't know wich species this turtle is, does anybody has one like Pachinga, or maybe is a local species from Costa Rica??
Thanks!!
Rodolfo Quesada
rquesada@eml.cc
Pictures of Pachinga!
