Eastern Box Turtle for sale

Looking for a beautiful captive bred baby eastern box turtle for sale? Tortoise town has baby box turtles for sale, as well as juvenile and adult box turtles.

Eastern Box Turtles for sale

The eastern box turtle is a subspecies within the species Terrapene carolina. It is called eastern box turtle since it is native to the eastern parts of the United States. Tortoise Town has the some of the nicest eastern box turtle for sale in the USA!  We specialize in vibrant, vivid colors especially in our beautiful eastern box turtle hatchlings, well started baby box turtles and yearling eastern box turtles.

Eastern box turtle

Terrapene carolina carolina

 If you are considering a baby eastern box turtle for sale, we highly recommend you purchase one of our 6 month old well started baby box turtles for sale as they are still very small (1.5″ instead of .75″ hatchling) but much, much easier to care for, more active and already eating like champs.  We also offer 1 year old eastern box turtles as well which are about 2″ in size.

Eastern Box Turtles for sale

Eastern box turtles prefer deciduous forests and mixed forests. (A deciduous forest have trees and shrubs that shed their leaves seasonally, while a mixed forest have evergreen trees as well, such as evergreen firs and pine trees.)

The eastern box turtle is known to appreciate a moderately moist forest floor with good drainage. Bottomland forest seems to be more popular than ridges and hillsides.

Sometimes eastern box turtles are encountered in non-forested areas, such as grasslands and pastures. Just as in the forests, the turtles want the floor to be moderately moist in these environments and seek out areas with wet leaves or wet dirt.

What does an Eastern Box Turtle eat?

Eastern box turtles for sale are opportunistic omnivores that will eat both animal and plant matter. They are known to eat a lot of different things, including fruits, berries, mushrooms, flowers, grasses, etc. They can catch prey but will happily eat carrion as well. In the wild, they catch suitably sized animals such as snails, worms, slugs, and beetles. If opportunity presents itself they will happily go after bigger prey as well, e.g. birds caught in nets.

Eastern Box Turtle Geographic Distribution

The eastern box turtle lives in the eastern United States, from eastern Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas to the Atlantic Ocean. They are found all the way from southern Florida in the south to southern Main and the southern and eastern parts of the Michigan Upper Peninsula in the north. They are present in the Great Lakes region, but they are rare there and typically limited to areas far away from busy roads.

Eastern Box Turtle Lifespan

(How old can an eastern box turtle get?)

Eastern box turtles exceeding a hundred years of age have been encountered in the wild. Due to unsuitable living conditions and faulty diets, captive eastern box turtles often die much younger than this.

As with other box turtles, Eastern box turtles can be very long-lived, possibly up to 100 years. Sadly, many in captivity will not survive that long (30 to 50 years is more typical; even shorter with less than ideal care).  When considering where to buy an eastern box turtle for sale near me, please also understand your new pet box turtle for sale online could live over 50 years and make plans accordingly!  These can be live long pet box turtles for sale.

What to feed eastern box turtles for sale?

Before you buy your new baby eastern box turtle for sale online and have him shipped, make sure you have food readily available.  Take a look at the natural diet of the eastern box turtle and try to give it similar foods in captivity.

Of course, one does not have to be super-strict. For instance, wild eastern box turtles are unlikely to encounter kiwi fruit since that fruit is native to another part of the word, but they will still do nicely on a diet that contains kiwi in captivity since they are generalized fruit-eaters in the wild.

As a rule of thumb, give your eastern box turtle roughly 50% protein-rich food (such as worms, beetles, grasshoppers, etc), 10% dark leafy greens and 40% vegetables, fruits and mushrooms.  We also feed Mazuri tortoise chow to our Eastern box turtles for sale, and they love it!

Water should always be available for the turtle, not just to drink but to soak in as well.

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Water

While box turtles are not aquatic, it is not unusual for them to wade into shallow water to drink and have a soak. Make sure a shallow pan of water is readily accessible (and kept clean) at all times. On hot, dry days, run a sprinkler or mist their pen for added moisture.

Eastern Box Turtle Temperature and Light

If kept in an outdoor pen, make sure there are both sunny and shady areas available (the turtle should be able to move from cooler to warmer areas as necessary).

Indoors, a terrarium will need a heat source as well as a UVB emitting reptile light. Provide a basking spot with temperatures of 85 to 88 F, maintaining the terrarium with a gradient down to about 75 F. The nighttime temperature should not drop below 70 F.

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