Habitat - Indoor :: transporting turtle in a car

[Seks]

I will be relocating my turtles to a friend's place 1 hr away for a few weeks. Bringing the whole set up with me. Outside winter temperature is unpredictable...was -20C 2 weeks ago. Then again, the turtles will be in the car.

So 1 hr to take down everything (including cleaning the tank), 1.5 hrs to load up the stuff in the car and drive to my friend's place, and probably 1 hr (at worst) to set it up. So let's say 3.5 hrs the turtles will be out of the water.

Turtle in a Tupperware container with no water? Handwarmer/heat pack needed in there?

Suggestions

[steve]

Well, you will have the heat on, so maybe keep the hot water bottle/heat pack as an emergency item. I'd use a cardboard box lined with newspaper, and old clean towel or something. If it's completely dark, the better chance they will rest. I've also learned that if they don't have much room to move around either, they will rest more.

[emm13]

My parents took my turtle on a 20 hour car ride to get her to me when I moved. We used handwarmers. We put one underneath her box, in a corner so she could escape from it, and gave her towels too. I wouldn't put any heat source in her box- especially if its the handwarmers- your turtle might try to eat it.