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Chinese Box Turtle Overview
Chinese Box Turtle is omnivorous, and will eat a large variety of foods. “Adults favor earthworms, frozen pinkies (defrosted), snails, slugs, and mealworms. They also eat dry trout chow and moistened dry cat food, canned cat food; fruits including strawberries, bananas, cantaloupe, and papaya; and vegetables including grated carrots, corn on the cob, and squash. Leafy greens are ignored. Invertebrates that the turtles hunt for include June bug (Phyllophaga) larvae and slugs being principal prey.
It can be tough to quantify exactly what makes a species the right one for your family or your breeding programs. Generally, things like overall hardiness take precedence in these designations.
Perhaps that is part of the reason species like the red-eared slider (Trachemys scripta elegans), continue to be listed as beginner species, despite their aggressive nature and aquatic habitat requirements.
The assessment that flavors are a beginner species would also be irresponsible. They are not super small, their endangered status makes them a species that should probably be bred, whenever possible, and they do have some specific requirements like saturation and varied diet that are not easy for all keepers to provide.
Chinese Box Turtle Hatchling Care
There’s a bit of a recurring theme here. The hatchlings are easy, as well. Egg size, and subsequently hatchling size, can vary greatly. However, the hatchlings are generally larger. If they were a North American species, they may lay 15 egg clutches, but generally, we see one to three eggs per clutch.
As mentioned earlier, pellets are recommended as the staple diet, even for hatchlings. Pellets are always accepted as a first meal after hatching. Hatchlings will even take full-sized adult pellets, so there is no need to feed these omnivores any tiny pellets meant only for hatchlings.
Small juveniles and hatchlings are kept in small Tupperware or plastic shoebox containers. These tubs must be transparent to allow ambient light to enter the tub and provide a day/night cycle.
Chinese Box Turtle Breeding and Incubation
As with many turtle species, a winter cool-down period is necessary for successful production to occur. We have had animals overwinter outside successfully here in Connecticut. We have also kept them in an indoor enclosure and had success breeding them after cooling them to a range of roughly 65 to 72 degrees Fahrenheit (18.3 to 22.2 degrees Celsius) during winter.
Our goal every year is to collect all adults from their outdoor enclosures once the weather cools in the fall and bring them in for artificial overwintering in the garage. There, the turtles remain between 30 and 50 degrees Fahrenheit (-1.1 to 10.0 degrees Celsius), where they remain completely inactive for about four months.
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