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Box Turtle Enclosure: Progression Thread
- Thread starter Nanci
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diamondlil
Mice! They taste so nice!
Would a betta be happy in there?
snakemom1961
Spring is here!
I know you don't want fish you have to bring in over the winter. But have you though about feeder gold fish? I believe they would survive throught the winter provided the ice didn't get to thick.
I am probably wrong. But that is one thing I have heard over the years.
I am probably wrong. But that is one thing I have heard over the years.
Nanci
Alien Lover
Goldfish are coldwater fish! I think my little container is about 85F! That's the problem!! Maybe I need to have winter fish, not summer fish. The fish in the water garden are fine. I was hoping to find some magical warmwater-loving fish that won't go into shock and die when the water temp drops to 50! Too bad there isn't a way to make a little water turtle stay in there!!
Nanci
Alien Lover
Winterizing The Torts
Well, it's going down near freezing tonight. The torts went into their burrow a few weeks ago and I covered them up because it was going to be cold, and then it just stayed cold, and by the time it warmed up again, they were brumating. I won't see them again until around Valentine's Day. I'm nervous about them getting colder than about 40F, so I winterize their burrow with a human heat pad, set on low, with a ZooMed 500R thermostat, set on low, in a couple big heavy ziplocks, scrunched into the burrow. A heavy wool rug covers the entrance and keeps drafts out. I have a thermometer probe back where the torts are.
Well, it's going down near freezing tonight. The torts went into their burrow a few weeks ago and I covered them up because it was going to be cold, and then it just stayed cold, and by the time it warmed up again, they were brumating. I won't see them again until around Valentine's Day. I'm nervous about them getting colder than about 40F, so I winterize their burrow with a human heat pad, set on low, with a ZooMed 500R thermostat, set on low, in a couple big heavy ziplocks, scrunched into the burrow. A heavy wool rug covers the entrance and keeps drafts out. I have a thermometer probe back where the torts are.
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Nanci
Alien Lover
I let the electric cord bury itself this summer, and it wasn't quite long enough to reach inside the burrow after being routed permanently around the water garden, so I had to do the hokey put the ends of the cords in ziplock bags thing. The thermometer is on top of the burrow in a bag, too. The white rug makes a great home for anoles in the winter; three came out and had to be captured and put back in while I was moving it to get the heater installed.
The pond is still 55F. I dropped the water lilies down to the bottom of the pond today, too. Poor Mrs. George had a bloom going still. I hope she makes it through the winter okay. She's a super-tropical. All the others are tropicals, too, but they made it just fine. Mrs. George died back to a tiny tuber.
There are lots of anoles out today, though. It's almost hot in the sun, if you can get out of the wind. I think I'm going to try to keep the fuschias and the fig that's in a pot, as well as the palms and bird of paradise.
I just checked the forecast: 27F tonight and tomorrow night. Brrr!! I pity the people up north!
The pond is still 55F. I dropped the water lilies down to the bottom of the pond today, too. Poor Mrs. George had a bloom going still. I hope she makes it through the winter okay. She's a super-tropical. All the others are tropicals, too, but they made it just fine. Mrs. George died back to a tiny tuber.
There are lots of anoles out today, though. It's almost hot in the sun, if you can get out of the wind. I think I'm going to try to keep the fuschias and the fig that's in a pot, as well as the palms and bird of paradise.
I just checked the forecast: 27F tonight and tomorrow night. Brrr!! I pity the people up north!
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keep it up!
Nanci
Alien Lover
There hasn't been much news, lately! The peppers in Terra Pen are doing very well in the cooler weather. The fig in Fort Tort that freezes back each winter produced well this year. I want to expand the new section of patio till it is out next to that edge of the water garden, and the wisteria which is on an arbor by the house has grown so monstrous that I'd like to try to move the whole thing out near that area somewhere, too. It will probably take three people to move it. The wisteria nearly totally encloses the arbor and the chairs inside it. I bet it's 20 degrees cooler in there in the summer.
Nanci
Alien Lover
Mid-Winter Burrow Check
The temp is dropping again, so I went out to turn on the tort's heater, and decided to check in on them at the same time. I can just barely reach them if I bury my arm up to the shoulder. Both are heavy and respond to touch. It's nice and dry in there. I expect them to emerge around Valentine's Day, and they may need to be returned to the burrow and locked in with heat one or two more times after they emerge. This is their third winter brumating outside. They will be seven years old late this coming summer. I got them when they were three years old. They have been living outside, virtually unsupported by me, for three and a half years.
In other news, I'm sad to report that I am afraid one of the Sarassas has been lost to a heron. I returned home a few weeks ago to find a Great Blue Heron standing on the water garden wall. Although the fish are mostly dormant and should be down at the bottom, and there is a LOT of cover, since then I've only seen three of them. Two are very similar and can only be told apart when they are together, so I am not sure who is missing, Levy or Halley. I've never had a heron visit, to my knowledge, before.
The temp is dropping again, so I went out to turn on the tort's heater, and decided to check in on them at the same time. I can just barely reach them if I bury my arm up to the shoulder. Both are heavy and respond to touch. It's nice and dry in there. I expect them to emerge around Valentine's Day, and they may need to be returned to the burrow and locked in with heat one or two more times after they emerge. This is their third winter brumating outside. They will be seven years old late this coming summer. I got them when they were three years old. They have been living outside, virtually unsupported by me, for three and a half years.
In other news, I'm sad to report that I am afraid one of the Sarassas has been lost to a heron. I returned home a few weeks ago to find a Great Blue Heron standing on the water garden wall. Although the fish are mostly dormant and should be down at the bottom, and there is a LOT of cover, since then I've only seen three of them. Two are very similar and can only be told apart when they are together, so I am not sure who is missing, Levy or Halley. I've never had a heron visit, to my knowledge, before.
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Michael823
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Looks like a BIG spider in there. You're brave for going up to the shoulders to reach in.
