heres a short little video of the box turtle pen that I built this spring, the pond has become really overgrown with plants but the boxies seem to love crawling among them and basking in the water in the dappled shade when its really hot out. The vid also includes our goldfish/kio pond, it has lots of frogs, toads, and snakes too, and the birds like to use the shallow end to water and take a bath.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWWwUW27WWg
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Jeff Benfer
gartersnakemorph.com
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Video of box turtle pond and pen
boxienuts
Aug 14, 2010 03:23 PM
Replies (8)
terryo
Aug 14, 2010 04:25 PM
That is amazing. I love the stream leading into the big pond....and the swing...an added bonus. Wow.
Linda G
Aug 14, 2010 08:49 PM
Wow, I am so jealous! Did you install this yourself?
Linda
boxienuts
Aug 14, 2010 10:06 PM
Thanks guys.
I dug both ponds by hand with a spade shovel and hauled all the stone, with the help of a friend, over 30 tons of rock and gravel. Sore back for a month but it was worth it.
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Jeff Benfer
gartersnakemorph.com
Linda G
Aug 15, 2010 08:22 AM
Very creative! You're right, backbreaking but well worth it.
Linda
curtis9980
Aug 16, 2010 03:48 PM
Very nice.
PHBoxTurtle
Aug 18, 2010 11:31 AM
Jeff, that is a great pond! Lucky turtles 
Tess
boxienuts
Aug 18, 2010 01:26 PM
Thanks guys, it was a ton of backbreaking work, but now the turtles and I get to kick back and enjoy it. The boxies must like it, since I have two clutches in the incubator, might be more that I didn't find to, I would like to think the eggs were their way of thanking me for their new love shack.
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Jeff Benfer
gartersnakemorph.com
MMathis
Sep 08, 2010 11:31 AM
Wow! OK, this may sound like a dumb question, but .... If you have a pond that's deep enough to circulate and filter the water, will box turtles ever be in danger of straying into the "deep" end and getting into trouble? I want to do a pond, but not quite sure how to incorporate it into a boxie habitat. Ideas?
