painted turtle

Hello everyone, This doesn’t seem urgent and I’ve observed no behavioral changes, but one of my rescued painted turtles appeared to have a piece of skin right behind his eyes that is stuck, making the skin in the surrounding area appear tighter than it should be. This turtle is around 13-15...

Hi everyone, I have a ~13 year old painted turtle rescue that I’ve had around 8 years now. He is a male Easter painted. For the past few nights I have noticed that he will spend several hours at the surface making a gulping gesture, but only at night once the lights are off. During the day...

Alternative title: From the Razor-backed musk turtle to the Alligator snapping turtle, who is the smartest of them all? So, I was reseaching tortoise intelligence, as one does and came across this nifty table on Wikipedia that lists animals by number of neurons...

Hi all, I was feeding the turtles today and it seemed like everyone came out to be seen. The map turtles stayed pretty far back, but even they came out. It was a great opportunity to get a bunch of photos.

I was working on the new egg laying/basking area for the pond in the dark (once baby is asleep) and I noticed that with the flashlight in the dark Fatty swam right up to me. Early spring she would come up to feed pretty regularly, but for the last several months I only occasionally see her...

I’m not gonna lie he smells a little off compared to my other turtles I checked his shell and he doesn’t seem to have shell rot besides the funky smell. He’s basking a lot which is great cause I think his previous owners used a heating bulb instead of a uvb. I read I could put iodine on it is...

Tamale, Ornate Wood Turtle, is hanging out under the shower of water. Sometimes known as the Painted Wood Turtle.

Hey! I would like to paint the outside only of my zoomed tortoise house (no paint inside) for my red footed tortoises and I am researching nontoxic paint. I will be painting outside and letting it dry but I have a dog and gecko too so I want to make sure the fumes don’t hurt any of my critters...

Found this little guy in a box on the side of the road the other day. I believe he’s a Central American Painted/Ornate Wood Turtle? Think he’s a he but unsure, don’t think he’s quite grown yet. I took him home and got him set up in a 5ft tub with coconut fiber, cypress mulch, and bark. Large...