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RE: Lighting & Powder Question.

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Posted by: curtis9980 at Wed Dec 22 17:35:52 2010  [ Report Abuse ] [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by curtis9980 ]  
   

I hate to be the one that sounds like an idiot, but I've never heard of such a thing. These experts do know that it can be hard to sex a box turtle sometimes if it hasn't reached sexual maturity, right? I mean, a turtle can be several years old and its eyes not turn color or its plastron not get concaved. Again, I hate to say I've never heard of this and everyone on here refute me, but it sounds more like a case of not being able to tell the sex yet because of age or other circumstances.



I also saw you asked about calcium sources. I don't use that powder stuff. I recommend providing calcium through natural sources like collard, turnip and mustard greens, snails, dandelions.



Tess' website has a good page on Calcium sources. http://www.boxturtlesite.info/min.html


   

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