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Originally Posted by 302340
Has anyone created an area for wild turtles to lay eggs, sun themselves, etc? ...
Lee
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I did, a couple years ago when the largest female started showing signs of nesting.
I took the box, that holds the food dish out, and replaced it with a box full of sand.
A few days later, I watched as she backed-up into the box and started digging with her rear paws. After laying and covering two eggs..I took the box indoors and placed a heat lamp over it. After giving them plenty of time to hatch...I uncovered them and they were dried out. I opened one up and it had an undeveloped turtle.
My mistake was the humidity...It's so hard to replicate their natural nesting grounds.
It's raining right now and they are still out of the water...lol