Can I see your Eastern Box turtle habitats/enclosures?

Those box turtles are some of the nicest I've seen. I love the pens.

Just got done with my new turtle pen, it is 8' x 8' with pull out deviders, one side for the box turtles and the other side for the cherryhead torts(not in it yet, need to get another water pan). Their old pen was only about a third of the new pen with no dividers. The cost was only $88 and one day off hard labor due to burying the bottom third panel into the ground by choping roots etc. so they dont dig out. Next thing to do is to make a hibernation hole, but I have time for that.

larger pics of my new turtle pen

Wow! Everyone's enclosures are great! Thanks for sharing pics!

Originally Posted by beastquake

i would love to discuss this with you. having done so many, ive learned the location can affect the eggs and they wont hatch. i prefer a running water pond kit that is cheap. if you want a drawing lemme know cause i was a draftsman and the engineer before landscaper.

1. they love hastas and hastas ate cheap
2. go to wal mart and plant a black berry bush and blue berry bush
3. i put lattuce up and am growing grapes now
4. i like to go 6 or 8 inches down with chicken wire and curve it into the pen and bury it

Hey, Beast, can you share what kind of water pond kit you use? How easy is it to maintain? I'm thinking about installing a turtle pen that would be about 2/3 under my deck, with 1/3 in the sun. I'd fill it up with hostas and ferns, and I do have established blueberry, grape, strawberry, raspberry and blackberry plants (though they're all in beds). I work at a drafting table in front of the windows under the deck and it would be really cool to have that view - I must confess, I have also always wanted a mini-pond!

1.1 ornate Boxies have lived here for the past two years. Alll year long.

How do you keep the ornates from digging out ?

I dug a trench and buried 8"X 16" X 3" solid cement blocks arround the entire edge and the fenciing is also buried 8 inches beside the blocks.