Can anyone help me? I have a 10 gallon tank containing 2 50 cent piece size Easter Box Turtles (I Plan on moving to a bigger tank but can’t atm). Their bedding is a mixture of Forest Floor and Coconut Fiber, I have a 60 Watt daylight heat bulb on one side and a Repti-sun 5.0 UVB Bulb on the other. Im constantly spraying the inside but the after about 30… …read more
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I just recently bought 2  baby red eared sliders at the local flea market. While purchasing them I noticed their eyes were closed and both had soft shell. I brought them home and put them in a 20 gallon tank with a heat lamp and I bought all kinds of medicine including  turtle eye drops and vita shell. I cannot get them into a vet for a few weeks where I… …read more
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hi i got these to turtles from a friend and now i need to know what kind they are if yyou can id post a comment leting me know thanks …read more
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A couple hours later my dad said that my friend had come over and said that the turtle was dead it had lots all motion in its body and did not respond to a touch so the turtle did die it had a couple hours of life and now he’s gone. he’s in a better place now.THANKYOU!!!! …read more
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Someone please help me out. so i got my baby red eared slider about a week or so ago shipped to me. he barely ate when he first got here and i figured hes just being a normal shy turtle. well now i have a real problem. he will not open his eyes theyre puffy looking. ive been researching and possibly and infection? also he will not do anything he sleeps on… …read more
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I think it’s fair to call this season a success. I got 3 clutches of Florida kingsnake eggs–two of which have hatched so far, one of which still has a month to go. I didn’t get good eggs out of my house snakes–I got eggs, but they were bad. I’ll try again next year on them.

It was my first time intentionally setting out to breed. I bred a few geckos as a kid, mostly by accident (leopard and pictus geckos) but that’s longer ago than I want to admit.

I’ve got 11 healthy hatchlings thus far and 7 more eggs incubating. I got a group of 4 double het for axanthic and white sided out of one clutch. The other clutch gave me 4 double het axanthic/hypo and 3 axanthic het hypos. Hatching started while I was out of town (eggs pipping) but was done by the 7th. Most of them have eaten 2-3 times on frozen thawed pinky mice and are going to move up to fuzzies in a week or two. I’ve got two hold outs I’m going to try on live pinkies tomorrow.

It was, certainly, a learning experience. I need a bigger baby rack for next year, as well as a bigger incubator. I wish I’d bit the bullet initially and purchased a 32 or 64 tub baby rack. I’m not a huge fan of racks but for raising babies they’re functional and practical. I’m looking at getting both a bigger and better incubator; I’ve heard good things about Nature’s Spirit, I may go with them. I plan to breed more snakes year–3 house snakes, 2-4 more king snakes, my reticulated pythons. So Bigger incubator is important. I also need a bigger cooling chamber probably. Mine was full this year, and next year I’ll be cycling more snakes–a male garter to mate with my female, the extra kings, etc.

Take aways:
Incubation and hatching are stressful as heck, at least for me. It’s like Christmas, but if you had to slowly unwrap each present over a 2-3 day period of time 🙂
It’s a rush to watch babies pip the egg.
Get them started on F/t if you can, many of them will take it.
Feed females heavily. They lose a lot of body mass with egg laying, but can regain it fairly quick. My hypo Florida king double clutched, and she’s still heavier than she was when she went into hibernation last year.
Selling is a bit of a pain. You have to figure out which ones you want to hold back (if any), which ones you want to sell, figure out how long to hold them for before offering them up, figuring out shipping and advertising, etc.
Put thought into your pairings. I had a pair of white sides, and I elected to not breed the male to the female, instead breeding her to …read more

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