People just do not realize that it's not set in stone that ALL male box turtles must have red eyes.
Yesterday when I picked up Chip there was a different person working the front desk, not the same one that had been there when I dropped him off.
She asked why I was there & I said I'm here to pick up Chip, I could tell she didn't know who I meant. I said the turtle.. oh yeah she knew about him. When I said turtle I saw the ears of the other people in the waiting room perk up.
She brings him out but the vet was out of the office & the techs in the back hadn't filled his prescription yet so I had to wait. I got him out of his carrier to look at him & this woman who said she has box turtles too started talking to me. I don't remember what I said but after talking a while she asked me how I know he's male because his eyes are not red.
She has turtles but doesn't know that not all males have red eyes? I said look at that tail.. look at those thick heavy back legs. Before he was repaired he had a very concave plastron but now with the acrylic you can't see that he does. Who knows after all is said & done he may not have a concave plastron again.
Red eyes/brown eyes/amber eyes.. that always seems to throw people off, I explained to her it's a myth that all males have red eyes.. I wish that myth would go away!
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PHRatz
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Red Eyes
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I've seen females with red eyes and males with brown eyes. I've seen some boxes with whitish and even greenish eyes.
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PHWyvern
>>I've seen females with red eyes and males with brown eyes. I've seen some boxes with whitish and even greenish eyes.
Funny... the woman who said Chip's eyes aren't red said females have green eyes. Hope's eyes were kind of olive colored, the other girls here have basically brown eyes but Jane's do have a tinge of red to them. Jane is unusually colorful for a female, she's got distinctly red scales on her front legs & she has so much yellow on her carapace that in the rear end she seems to have more yellow color than dark brown. Charity has faintly red scales on her leg but Jane's really show up.
Most female ornates I see around here tend to be a more on the drab side like Shell E, she's not very colorful at all.
Whitish eyes I haven't seen but it just goes to show you, there are no set rules.
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PHRatz
