Baby turtle update

[Snake lover 3-25]

how do you come up with this stuff!!!!!!???????

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

rofl. soft smelled turtle.


hahahaha.


rocks with legs! gotta love em!

[Lori P]

Roflmao!!!!!!!

[Snake lover 3-25]

okay... i STILL dont know what roflmao means!!!!

[Stefan-A]

okay... i STILL dont know what roflmao means!!!!

rolling on floor laughing my arse off.

[Snake lover 3-25]

oooooooooooo okay thankx!!!!!! LOLOLOL

[stonyloam]

Hay Shanley!! Nice little gal. I believe you have a midland painted turtle (Chrysemys picta marginata). I had one for years. They are pretty omnivorous, they will eat vegetables like lettuce, duckweed, and flesh like worms, night crawlers, fish and about anything they can get. Mine was in a tank with enough water that I could just toss in a bunch of minnows or guppies and it would catch them itself. With a large tank you could set up an under gravel filtration system that would work pretty well to keep things clean and the fish alive (not that it matters to the turtle). Needs a dry spot and a basking light. Remember this is a native species, and it will try to hibernate during the winter, so you should take that into consideration. I like turtles too. Have fun.

[Snake lover 3-25]

okay.... so i couldn't find any UVB bulbs... just the lamps....... will UVA work????? at least until i can order something??????

[enigma200316]

Hay Shanley!! Nice little gal. I believe you have a midland painted turtle (Chrysemys picta marginata). I had one for years. They are pretty omnivorous, they will eat vegetables like lettuce, duckweed, and flesh like worms, night crawlers, fish and about anything they can get. Mine was in a tank with enough water that I could just toss in a bunch of minnows or guppies and it would catch them itself. With a large tank you could set up an under gravel filtration system that would work pretty well to keep things clean and the fish alive (not that it matters to the turtle). Needs a dry spot and a basking light. Remember this is a native species, and it will try to hibernate during the winter, so you should take that into consideration. I like turtles too. Have fun.

I agree with Terry that its a painted turtle deff.,but I think it may be Eastern pianted picta picta, however we know its one of the 2.....

[enigma200316]

oh yeah the way to tell is, the eastern is the only painted turtle to have aligned scutes and the other 3 have alternating, also the midland usually has a darker showdy mark in the middle of the plastron or the underneath
part of the shell.....but of the 4 species the midland and the eastern look almost exactly alike.........