Calamity & Hydra's Story:
Recovering Female Northern Diamondback Terrapins

Day 3: Sun Bathing!

Calamity and Hydra spent the night in their dry dock hotel. For a while they will be dry docking for about 22 hours a day. No fun...but needed right now.

At 9am the girls took a nice clean bath for rehydration in fresh clear waters. Then they had their Nolvason Scrub which equates to a bubble bath and complete wash down using a 100% cotton cloth baby diaper. A few tiny bits of shell came off during this bath but nothing like what had come off during the previous ones.

Their bath was concluded with another tub full of fresh clean water and more food offerings. Calamity ate quite well...but only the smelt. Hydra remains in refusal mode but we were able to get her to take in about 25% of one of the smelts. Both are back in their dry dock container waiting for 11AM to arrive so they can be moved out into the natural sunlight that mother nature promises to bring us today.

At 11am on the dot both girls were moved out into the sun where they spent about 5 hours bathing in mother nature's gift. At 4pm they came in for another soak, feeding, and Nolvason bath. Calamity ate another smelt and Hydra finally caved in and ate a whole one herself. They will spend their evening in the dry dock container in the warmth and darkness of our extra bathroom which is often the warmest, darkest, quietness room of the home ;)

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