Central American Wood Turtle

The Central American Wood Turtle, also known as the Ornate Wood Turtle, is a popular and common wood turtle within the pet trade. Those imported from the northern part of Costa Rica, in particular, are brightly colored, and they feature black eyespots along with lovely swirls of yellow and orange.
Found throughout most of western Mexico south to Costa Rica, the Central American painted wood turtle is a species with many close relatives, distant and near.
We also feed our wood turtles Zoo Med omnivore diet (tortoise and lizard food in a can), aquatic turtle pellets (dry), iguana food, box turtle pellets and canned.
Central American Wood Turtle (Rhinoclemmys pulcherrima manni) is a turtle species of which a number of.
It is found in Mexico (from Sonora southwards) and Central America, as far south as Costa Rica. Habitat[edit]. Painted wood turtles live in rainforests, shallow rivers.
Ornate Wood Turtle (Rhinoclemmys pulcherrima manni). also known as the Mexican Wood Turtle, the Painted Wood Turtle, and the Central American Wood.
As this turtle hails from humid tropical central America, its captive environment must be sufficiently warm and humid. Ambient temperatures in the range of 22 – 26.
Rhinoclemmys pulcherrima manni are highly aquatic as hatchlings and while young, but become more land-based as they get older. Mature Rhinoclemmys.
The Central American Wood Turtles are an appealing group of turtles. They are great to keep and will soon become.