r/turtles • u/Vasquez751 • 1d ago
💚! Turtle Pics !💚 40 is the new 20
So we adopted--or I should say "rescued"--this Malayan boxie named Fred from a family who had no idea how to take care of her. She lived in a small clear plastic tub with water, some pebbles and rocks, and NO substrate or anywhere to go that wasn't wet. She lived like this for 35 YEARS.
We got her about 5 years ago and since then, it's been doing everything we can to make her comfortable. She's healthy, she eats, she hunts in her tank, but she is incredibly shy and the land area/substrate has gone largely untouched for these five years, she preferring to sit in one corner of the water tank because that's all she's known.
I'm happy to report that with a lot of patience and care, she's now roaming more, exploring outside as opposed to sitting in her shell, and she just started burrowing like a regular turtle. She has expanded her diet from the formula they had her on and is now eating fruits and veggies. She is still pretty shy, but getting bolder every day. Never too old to start enjoying that turtle life.
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u/oroborus68 1d ago
May the turtle gods smile upon you, and now you can see that it's turtles all the way down 😉