eastern box turtle for sale

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Eastern box turtles for sale

Eastern box turtle for sale (Terrapene Carolina Carolina) is a subspecies within the species Terrapene Carolina (box turtles). The reason we call them “Easterns” is because this box turtle is native to the eastern parts of the United States.

Eastern box turtle wild distribution

Eastern box turtles live in the eastern United States and can be found from Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas East to the Atlantic Seaboard of the US.  You can locate Easterns from southern Florida in the south to southern Main.  Also, you can find them in the southern and eastern parts of Michigan.  EBT are also found in the Great Lakes regions.  However, rarely found here typically limited to areas far away from streets and roads. The Southernmost eastern box turtles may be found in elevations up to 6,000 feet high! In the north where the climate is colder, this subspecies is normally limited to regions below 1,000 feet above sea level.  In captivity, captive bred baby Eastern box turtles for sale are available thru box turtle breeders.

Eastern Box Turtle for sale – Eastern Box Habitat

In the wild, Eastern box turtles prefer thick green forests and mixed forests as well.  They spend their time equally between evergreen and mixed forests.  The eastern box turtle is known to appreciate a moderately moist forest floor with good drainage. Bottomland forest seems to be more popular than ridges and hillsides.  Sometimes eastern box turtles are encountered in non-forested areas, such as grasslands and pastures. Just as in the forests, the turtles want the floor to be moderately moist in these environments and seek out areas with wet leaves or wet dirt.

If it is hot outside you will find eastern box turtles cool off by bathing in puddles and shallow streams.  Easterns will submerge themselves in mud, sometimes for as long as a week at a time, to stay cool and avoid the heat.  Consider this when setting up the habitat for your new Eastern box turtle for sale.

Eastern Box turtles for sale – EBT Body

Adult Eastern box turtles are normally around 4-6 inches, with one in 50 being as large as 6.5″.

When examining the carapace of an EBT, you will notice it is high and dome-shaped.  Also, you will find a well-hinged plastron that makes it possible for the turtle to completely close the shell. The ability to completely close the shell is also found on all other box turtle species including the Florida box turtle, Three-toed box turtle, Ornate Box turtle, and Chinese box turtle. Coloration varies based on locale.  Also, the carapace of an eastern box turtle is normally black in color, marked with orange and/or yellow lines and dots. Naturally, these colors blend in with the natural environment of the EBT.

Like all of our box turtles for sale, our Ornate box turtle for sale comes with our full live arrival and 7 day health guarantee.  Our Ornate box turtle come as baby Ornate box turtles, well started Ornate box turtle babies, yearlings and juveniles.  All of our baby box turtle ship overnight via UPS or fedex and arrive on your doorstep the following morning. We ship in heated and cooled containers year round.  Be sure to check out all turtles for sale, as well as all of our baby turtles for sale as well as tortoise for sale.

Eastern box turtle colors

Because of their naturalistic markings, it is quite easy for an eastern box turtle to hide safely in the leaf litter.  Keep in mind that exact skin color varies from turtle to turtle.  Normally EBT skin is black to dark brown and decorated with streaks of orange, red and yellow.

Be sure to check out all the water turtles for sale, including baby turtles for sale at our sister store, TT!