Quote Originally Posted by jessie_k_pythons View Post
if you need more info on Boxes I might be able to help, What type of Box is it?

I have an eastern and I can take photos of my set up that I have for him it was easy to make.

Just let me know if I can be of any help.
Well, this is a story I never finished. It was a very awkward situation, but I brought the turtle home with me. She was ill. Not too bad, she did have some mucus in her water bowl, and once in a while she would bubble up the nose.

I bought her a cuttle bone for the beak, I trimmed her nails, I gave her a supplement calcium spread on greens, mushrooms, some fruit. I also offered her the canned box turtle food, some small bits of extra pungent cat food as well. I also went and bought some meal worms. She did eat the cat food one day, and barely ate for the next 2 weeks. I did see a good improvement after having her for 2 weeks. She was getting 14 hours of light, she was kept at 85 deg all the time on cyprus, and was misted twice a day.
She really liked to go into her water dish a fish for floating food bits. I cleaned her up nice. She was actually getting better. Her skin started to heal, and she loved to burrow in the cyprus. (Before she would just lay there)

Unfortunately, after 2 weeks, my roommate came back for her. I told him what I knew about his sick turtle, and he acknowledged that he used to give her a varied diet, and trim her and keep her in better conditions. I told him about the cyprus and misting. The regular changing of UV bulbs, and even printed a general box caresheet for him. He accepted everything. I thought that I had made a great difference for him.

Well, 2 weeks later, I was moving out of the apartment. The mealworms, calcium, cyprus were all still in the same bag. The turtle was back in the same 20 long aquarium. Repticarpet, barely any water, and it was green. Not enough heat, and a sicker turtle than before. She now has an eye problem. She may still have an ri. I am pretty sure she will die a slow death. I tried, but sometimes people think they know best. He had the turtle for 12 years, and said it's always been fine. I couldn't open his eyes, even with how passionately I felt for this turtle.

Sometime people have to learn the hard way.