While showing our turtles and how we house them to fellow herpers (something we also enjoy doing), they were pleased to learn some of our techniques for raising baby turtles. We realized that you may enjoy going behind-the-scenes as well so we created these tours.

    Beginning with the introduction of our first three tours, the popularity of "Raising Baby Turtles" has been more than was anticipated and indicates to us that more content of this nature will be appreciated. Please keep in mind that these tours are not care sheets or advise. There are plenty of web sites that provide care sheets and tell you what to do and think. The tours are simply the sharing of ideas and techniques we use. None of these techniques are necessary to keep turtles successfully.

    The tours on this page deal mainly with baby turtles and indoor habitats. A second series of tours, Backyard Turtles, features the keeping turtles outdoors. The few tours on this page that deal with outdoor techniques were written before the Backyard Turtles page and will remain on this page.Don't forget to visit the Backyard Turtles page.

    In order for you to better understand the techniques presented here, please know that any turtles featured on these pages that are kept in captivity by us are kept as pets. They are cherished. Each one is named and relates to us in its own way. They are not kept as specimens and are never sold to others. We want them to be healthy, happy, and with us for a very long time.

    With this in mind, we can express our goals for housing turtles as follows:

        1.    Provide healthy and safe environments,
        2.    Provide interesting and enjoyable environments,
        3.    Minimize daily maintenance,
        4.    Have fun!

    So lets go behind the scenes and see some of these techniques: