I hope the pictures are good enough that u can see something.
This turtle is a European pond turtle. She has clear eyes and a good appetite. She basks regularly under a 100 watt heat bulb. The basking spot is completely dry.
She has some greenish white spots on the shell underside is this shell...
Hey some of u know we got a few turtles.
We got a European pond turtle rescue today that is currently in quarantine. After that I would like to move it in the pond in spring with the other painted turtles and spotteds. Do u think this could work?
The European pond turtle is about 4cm bigger...
I like the build and effort! It looks very nice. I don't know anything about this species so I can't comment if things are done right or wrong. I see two things that I would change regardless of species.
1. Other water bowl. Looks like a drowning hazard.
2. The humidifier. I would not use one...
How much variety is needed for a healthy turtle?
Species: spotted and painted turtles
This is what I feed and what they get access to:
Dried gammarus(small shrimps?)
Earthworms
Crickets
Bloodworms
Mealworms
Crawfish
Snails(aquatic and land)
Dragonfly larvae
Tadpoles
Spiders
Grasshoppers
Dubia...
We got a pond tub donated but it has 2 holes really low with screws in them.
If we fill it with water its trickling down drops of water. Not ideal for indoors.
Is there anything that could seal it properly?
Does anyone has an idea how to fix this?
Hello again everyone. I hope u had a good start of 2022! :)
I'm ending the brumation earlier for my turtles (like I said in my last post) I'm wondering if it is Important to slowly and steadily increase the hours of light I give them ?
For example should I give them after brumation only like...
2 eastern painted turtles and 4 spotted turtles. My thinking was that u in America got way more sunshine hours than we do over here. So ur winters start later and end earlier. We got many days in September and October and march to may that are rainy and in the 10-15 °c range. So I thought that...
2 eastern painted turtles and 4 spotted turtles. My thinking was that u in America got way more sunshine hours than we do over here. So ur winters start later and end earlier. We got many days in September and October and march to may that are rainy and in the 10-15 °c range. So I thought that...
We keep some turtles outdoors from april to December. They brumate from mid October to end of December. Then we wake them slowly to live from Januar - End of March indoors. Before we put them outside again. We do this because our climate is not so perfect for north America species.
Do they...
Hello we get some acrylic tanks and glass tanks donated to us regularly.
The glass tanks look always new after a cleaning but the acrylic tanks are a pain to get good looking again. After u get some of the stretches out it only takes a few weeks before there are new ones.
It looks really bad...
Thank you everyone for taking the time to help me! Very intresting informations that I definitely have to read more upon. I'm glad that its normal and I don't need to worry :) thank you all!