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CITES II
Geoemydidae

Chinese Box Turtle

Cuora flavomarginata

Traceable. The figures above appear in the page we cite, which we opened on 10 Aug 2026. That means you can check them, not that we have confirmed they are right. reptilesmagazine.com

Photograph: 祐 · CC BY

Photographed by an observer on iNaturalist and published under a Creative Commons licence; the photographer and the licence are named under the image. It is not an animal of ours, and no animal was handled by us to produce it.

CITES II is a global listing and holds in every country. National law is not global, and we hold no national wildlife law for any country, Thailand included. Check your own authority before buying or selling.

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https://keepr.pet/husbandry/en/cuora-flavomarginata

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Temperature29°C
Enclosure2 feet by 4 feet the minimum size for a pair of adults; for the babies, plastic sweaterboxes or a 10-gallon aquarium
Dietworms and insects, but will also eat an occasional prekilled pinky mouse, trout chow, puppy chow, some berries, other fruits, squash and a little dark lettuce; hatchlings accept black worms and chopped earthworms placed in the water

The numbers

Temperature

152025303540 °C
29°Cool side
Warm side: not in our data

The cool side, 29°C. This sheet states the cool side only. It gives no warm side or basking figure, so the hot end is not in our data. Same scale on every sheet here, so two species compare by eye.

The sheet statescool 29 °C

Enclosure
2 feet by 4 feet the minimum size for a pair of adults; for the babies, plastic sweaterboxes or a 10-gallon aquarium
Diet
worms and insects, but will also eat an occasional prekilled pinky mouse, trout chow, puppy chow, some berries, other fruits, squash and a little dark lettuce; hatchlings accept black worms and chopped earthworms placed in the water

Identity

Origin

Enclosure and conditions

Temperature
cool 29 °C

What your climate adds

This sheet states a range to hold. Your local climate decides how much work holding it is. Pick the nearest city: nothing is sent anywhere, the choice stays in this browser.

Common questions

Why is it expensive?

It is heavily collected across Asia, CITES listed and slow to breed, so legal captive-bred stock is limited.

Does it live in water?

Mostly on land. It needs a planted land enclosure with damp substrate and a shallow water dish, not an aquarium.

How long does it live?

Several decades, commonly thirty years and beyond.

What does it eat?

An omnivore: worms, snails, insects, fruit and greens, and it hunts on land.

What it needs

A thermometerbecause temp — cool 29 °C
Not stated: The heat sourcethis sheet names only the cool side: « cool 29 °C »
Not stated: The size of the enclosurethis sheet describes the enclosure without a figure: « 2 feet by 4 feet the minimum size for a pair of adults; for the babies, plastic »

Every line above is deduced from a value this sheet states, and names which one. Nothing here is a general recommendation. What the sheet does not state is listed too, rather than left out: a kit that looks complete is worse than one that names its gap.

Sources

reptilesmagazine.com — lu le 2026-08-04turtlecare.net — lu le 2026-08-04speciesplus.net — lu le 2026-08-08reptile-database.reptarium.cz — lu le 2026-08-08

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What this sheet states

62%
TemperatureHumidityEnclosure sizeActivityOriginDietSourcesUVB

This sheet states 4 of 7 of the fields this product runs on. What is missing turns something off: humidity instrument and audit, day/night engine and awake count on the globe, the diet section. We show the gap rather than fill it with a plausible number.

UVB is measured but does not count: it is absent from 421 of 678 sheets, and on most of them that is not a gap, since a nocturnal snake's sheet has no reason to state a UV index. Counting it would call the library incomplete without cause.