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Now he’s scratching at the side, which is not see thru, like he wants to burrow.

My Russian tort egg hatched late last night. The baby crawled all the way out of his egg shell this afternoon and dug into the substrate, which was vermiculite. I read Tom’s post took him out of the vermiculite rinsed him and put him on wet paper towel in the incubator, but he is very active and...

I live in Northern Va and have two Russian torts. They live in a large pen outdoors in the summer but I bring them inside in winter. In past winters they have eaten and basked under their lamp and I soak them once a week. This winter they r just sleeping in their house. They r not basking and...

So sorry for the loss of your wife. I hope you and your tort Sandy have many wonderful years together! It looks like you have really done your due diligence on Sandy’s new home. I can’t think to add anything except nothing can replace real sunshine. I would try to figure out a way for Sandy...

The climbing thing makes some sense, may explain why they were upside down sometimes. But I remember seeing my painted turtle on her log basking around Xmas. We’ve also had pretty mild winters in previous years w no issues. But if I get more turtles I will try to think of a way to let them climb...

I was feeding the turtles pellets for water turtles from pet store along w fish food and dried meal worms and occasionally a live earth worm or two.

I got my water tested yesterday and all the levels were fine. 🤷‍♀️ the pet store girl thought maybe a parasite? She said to wait a month before introducing any new turtles into the pond. I also treated it yesterday w beneficial bacteria. My water hyacinths should also be here tomorrow. My new...

Awwww. Thx. I only wish my turtles were still in there. We used just sandbox sand from Home Depot.

Here is a pic of my sweet turtles last summer. 😢

Here is a pic I just took this morning. It’s a bit green right now. Those lily pads r fake until I can get my water hyacinths going. And I have a new visitor, a pretty good size frog.

I will post some pics asap. Thx!

No. The fish all seem to be fine.

When I had my smaller pond I never did a complete water change and my 5 year old painted turtle was fine. Last summer tho when I enlarged it, it was all new water. I have water iris plants and cat tails. I had water hyacinths last summer, but they all died w winter. The only filter I have is...

Hi. I had a 300 gallon small pond w a painted turtle in it for 5 years. The spring before last, I found two baby red eared sliders and put them in my pond. I really did not expect the red eared sliders to live thru that first winter but they did. Yay! Last spring I enlarged my pond. I made...