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She has burrowed herself in a little hole not sure if she getting ready to hibernate or if this is a nest for her eggs?

I turn on their lights around 11 am till around 10:30 pm. They don’t receive light from a window and I live in eastern North Carolina and no the tank is not heated.

Yes she is in the tank with a male and another female.

Also she is roughly 4 years of age

I have noticed in the past few days that my mud turtle has been acting different. She has dug a hole beside the rocks in my tank as shown in picture 1 and she seems to sit on top of their log alot more than usual where my male mud turtle is shown in picture 2. Could she be pregnant? I made a...

I have seen my mud turtles breeding recently and I just wanted to know, how can I tell if my mud turtles are pregnant?

Can someone identify what breed of turtle/tortoise this is? My neighbor brought it to me and I don’t want to put it in my aquarium incase it is a tortoise. From internet pictures I want to say it is a eastern box turtle but it’s shell does not looks exactly the same.

So today I looked at my mud turtles tails and seen what looked to maybe be it’s genitalia that happened to appear. Not sure if it’s male or female parts but hopefully someone can help me find out. The mud turtle above has a much wider and longer tail than my other mud turtle shown below.

Thank you for this helpful information !

If they do happen to be a male and female I would like to know some tips on breeding them : )

Left turtle Right turtle I have two mud turtles and I would like to know if anyone could help me find out what their genders and age are. I have been searching the web and could not find any helpful info. The turtle on the right is about 3” in length and the turtle on the left is about...

Thanks for letting me know!

So I have had a problem with brown algae in my tank lately so I bought a Pleco today to take care of it, and I just wanted to know if my mud turtle would attempt to eat it if it happened to be laying still against a rock or the glass inside my of tank while it is feeding?

Thanks for the insight! I will consider getting some algae eating fish

I am having a problem with algae in my tank, the last time I cleaned it I used a paper towel to wipe all of it off and it came off easily from my tank glass but it has come back and it’s spotted on my tank glass and all in my filter and also it shows up brown on my plants (seen in photos). I...