Baby found during construction
Hi! So recently, while on a walk, i found a rather small box turtle. Normally, I'd have left it alone as we live quite far in the middle of nowhere, Tennessee, but as of late, there is a huge amount of construction by my home and they sre tearing up all the ground where he was found and in the surrounding area
I've had turtles before, red ear sliders, so I'm not overly unfamiliar with turtles, but I don't know a whole lot about them on a care levle, just what I've found on Google
I don't plan to keep the poor thing long term, just untill they are done ripping up the top soil, which they said will be another 2 or so months, but I want to provide for him while he's in my care the best I can
I've had him for 2 weeks now. He's regularly eating every 2 ish days as I've seen. I've been giving him fresh food dailt, though im unsure if this is within good husbandry. I own hermit crabs that I regularly feed live bugs, fruit, and vegetables too already, so from what I've found, I've got a lot of the right stuff to feed.
Right now I've been offering him small worms, isopods, mealworms, as well as offering fruits cut into small peices like apples, watermelon (only the once becausei know its high in sugar and google said thats not the best for them, and darker leafy greens like to incude red leaf lettuce and romain, I hand raise there bugs again for the crabs)
I had a spare 60-gallon tank laying around, alongside a heat mat and a soaking pool. So I picked up some coconut fiber for him and layerd it about 3 inches thick and set up some basic hides and the pool (declorinated), i also placed a few pothos that i had growing in my crabs tank, I washed with pet safe anti bug spray then rinsed with water to ensure no transfers of anything as was unsure if they could harm eachother, and set them around the hides and pool so he had a safer place to hide in.
My concerns are this, have I got all the basic husbandry down, and if now what do I need to do to ensure he'll be okay during his stay? What can I do to enrich the tank if required for them? Also should I be separating him into a small container for eating, I see this alot with other turtle owners as well as hand feeding, but since I'm releasing him i don't want to accidently domestic him