aquatic turtle

Hello, folks. So yesterday I found this wasp in our house. I believe it is a bald-faced hornet. It appeared to be lethargic, so I let it go outside. Today I found it dead on our patio. It appeared to be crushed, and I suppose someone stepped on it. It was still moving its legs slowly, but...

Hello friends! I made an account for this forum so I could post this urgent request. For around 12 years, my family has had a yellow bellied (slight chance of actually being red eared) slider turtle named Squirtle. My parents are separating, and I'm in university, so we need to re-home Squirtle...

Hello, folks. So, it's winter, and we're currently in the process of preparing our red-eared slider, Teresa, for winter hibernation (brumation). She is currently being housed in a small storage bin filled with water (without a water heater or a heat lamp) at around 68°F. This is only a...

Hello, folks! So the temperatures are dropping, and the snow is beginning to fall where we live. Our red-eared slider, Teresa, has already been taken safely inside. This is the time of year when I would be preparing our red-eared slider for brumation by feeding her in her temporary storage...

Hello, folks! I'm happy to report that our red-eared slider, Teresa, has successfully hibernated in a moist hay and topsoil mixture from January 1 to January 22. She has proven to be a hardy specimen, capable of overwintering at temperatures barely above freezing despite decades in artificial...

Hello, folks! As I've mentioned on other posts, we have a female red-eared slider (or "pond" slider) named Teresa. We've had her for over a decade. As is often the case with red-eared sliders, she has grown too big and too challenging to keep inside in an average-sized aquarium tank. I've been...

Hello again! As I've been discussing on this forum, we have a red-eared slider, Teresa, who has been a "house turtle" for years. Her husbandry conditions aren't the best, and keeping her conditions clean constantly is difficult due to this (her housing is too small). I've been discussing...

Hello, folks! As I've mentioned on other threads, we have a female red-eared slider named Teresa, and after her spending years in a rather undersized aquarium, I am interested in the idea of moving her into an outdoor enclosure with a large pond and a land area for basking and digging. My...

Hello, folks! Some of you may already be acquainted with our turtle, as I've already introduced her on another thread. We currently own a female red-eared slider named Teresa or "Terry" who's a little over 12 years old. We've had her for that long, and we suspect she could live many more years...

Hi, everyone! I'm reaching out on behalf of my family, due to unfortunate recent circumstances, the care of our turtles has become too extensive for us to keep up with. They've been with us since they were hatchlings for the last 13 years and we love them dearly, but they're in need of a new...

My ablino RES wont eat nothing but shrimp cuz she uses her smell cuz she cant see very well what do i do i tried feeding her pellets but she just spits them out. i soak the shrimp in vitimins so she gets what she needs and she barely will eat vegtables help!

I have a new baby that has been in our home now for a little over two weeks and anyone who has followed my stories knows it has been a hard road the last couple of months. After losing my precious adult 3-striped mud turtle on June 1st, we welcomed a couple of babies in our home but these...

I have two red eared slider turtles since they were very young and we have been waiting for them to mature so we can know weather they are boys or girls. I believe they are now big enough and i was told you should be able to tell by looking at their tales. well, i cant. Can any one help me...

Can i see pictures of your Eastern Mud turtle tank? How much water do i need for my Eastern Mud turtles? I'm trying to figure out how to do the tank. I have been told they are poor swimmers and i noticed this little one can't get on the basking/land area when trying to get out of the water...

We wanted to give a big thank you to the folks at Tetra for donating all these great items and 20 Cases of food. We are so appreciative and thank you so much! We will def be passing on some of the food to other turtle rescues and turtle lovers!

my new aquatic turtle came with an overgrown beak. ih had my tortoise's beak trimmed but will the vet be able to trim an aquatic turtle? another problem is she is a very small very moody musk turtle. are the any natural ways to get her to trim her own beak?

Recently a small yellow-bellied slider caught my eye at Petco. I have full-grown one currently that is very (maybe a little too) friendly, we hand-feed her, and she likes to be out of her water and around us. But I'm not sure how she would do with a turtle 10x smaller... will she think it's...