Love my baby turtles!!

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Got three turtles a week ago, a painted turtle (I think eastern but I'm not sure) a Mississippi map and a peninsula cooter. unfortunately, the map turtle passed away 24 hrs after I got it(probably due to sickness, got it at a rep show) but the painted and the cooter are great!! the painted eats anything it's offered but I can only get the cooter to eat tilapia and that's it. (Help with getting to eat pellets?) right now theyre in a sterlite bin 26.5 gallons which will be good for a few years and I'll get them either a 40 or even a 75 gallon aquarium..

 

[Yvonne G]

Very cute! Nothin' cuter than baby turtles.

 

[MikeCow1]

What's the underside of that painted look like?

 

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[MikeCow1]

Yep, looks eastern to me

 

[theTurtleRoom]

Yep, looks eastern to me

The blotch is too big for most easterns. Carapace and the top of the head are best ways to distinguish between the 4 painteds in one picture.

 

[Lou]

from the limited view of the carapace (the part where we have light reflection), it looks like the vertebral and pleural scutes are alternating, and thus, I would vote against eastern.

 

[lkwagner]

I it is an eastern. My dad found it hatched in the yard. We live in eastern MI. I'm almost positive it's an eastern.

 

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going back to the reptile show this weekend, trying to get a replacement. Even if he doesn't give me a refund I want to get another turtle. What are a few relatively small species that I could put in with my painted and cooter?

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Lol and my cooter has barely grown at all but my painted turtle is twice the size since I got him a month ago

 

[theTurtleRoom]

I it is an eastern. My dad found it hatched in the yard. We live in eastern MI. I'm almost positive it's an eastern.

In Eastern Michigan, you are far more likely to find a midland than an eastern. Eastern's are NOT native to your area.

 

[yagyujubei]

I'm in northern Ohio, and we have midlands here.

I it is an eastern. My dad found it hatched in the yard. We live in eastern MI. I'm almost positive it's an eastern.

In Eastern Michigan, you are far more likely to find a midland than an eastern. Eastern's are NOT native to your area.

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In Michigan according to their DNR, they have Midland, Western, and intergrades between the two.

 

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Definitely not a western might be a midland

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Definitely not a western might be a midland actually

 

[theTurtleRoom]

Definitely not a western might be a midland

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Definitely not a western might be a midland actually

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Why I was asking for a shot of the carapace. The head looks like Midland, and the vertebral & plueral scutes appear to be in alternating alignment. A picture from above would enable me to get a better view of the alignment to confirm.

 

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Definitely not a western might be a midland

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Definitely not a western might be a midland actually

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Why I was asking for a shot of the carapace. The head looks like Midland, and the vertebral & plueral scutes appear to be in alternating alignment. A picture from above would enable me to get a better view of the alignment to confirm.

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Here you go, he has grown A LOT

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There that's better quality

 

[theTurtleRoom]

That is a Midland (Chrysemys picta marginata), through and through.

 

[tupacliveson16]

You have a little eastern for sure! Adorable little critters, i also have one.

 

[theTurtleRoom]

You have a little eastern for sure! Adorable little critters, i also have one.

It is most certainly not an Eastern. The carapace scute alignment is that of a Midland, as I've already said. You'll also notice the postorbital is a thick, short stripe (not a round spot).

 

[diamondbp]

It's a midland painted. No doubt at all. It's not an eastern