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Male box turtle 10 yrs old, displaying hyperactivity.

Climbing the walls to try and get out of his outdoor enclosure which is a really good set up.

He has been out of hibernation for about 3 weeks, and has displayed this activity the last 2 spring/summer/falls etc...

Really stumped as to what the problem coud be, has adequate shade cover, sunlight, heaviliy planted etc...

Have any of you ever gone through this? What could this be all about?

In closing, any suggestions on good commercially available box turtle foods other than reptomin, as he seems to be disinterested in that although will eat it. In addition to commercial food he gets veggies, worms, crickets etc...

My male is usually the first out from hibernation, and he paces, and goes around the enclosure constantly, until the females come up. I think that they are looking to mate as soon as they get up and are searching for a female. In the wild they would be traveling and searching. Here they can only go as far as their enclosure. That's the only thing I can think of.

Now that makes perfect sense!!!!! The problem being that we have 2 males who are seperated by a partition down the middle of the enclosure as when they were younger they had an interest in each other but that seemed to turn ugly....to where they were not getting along. So for safety skae they have been separated.

So how do I "satisfy" this urge? Should I put a fake turt in there for him to swoon????

Well, it looks like you will have to get a few females. At least two or three to each male. I have two males now and 5 females. The males didn't get along at all, but now they seem to be OK. If your enclosure is big enough they won't come into contact that often and they should be OK then.