Africans and turtles?
i have 1 eletric yellow 1 big cilchild 2 small cilchilds and 2 small pecoks in a 3 and a partially ft tank can i put 1-2 or 3 turtles in there?
Answers: powerfully turtles eat anything that moves...so NO.
Remember 10 gallons for every inch of turtle. I have used kiddy pools and plastic pond liners from most nurseries and in a minute a 150 gal pond.
They are the coolest. Not cuddly pets at all. And a life time commitment.
Sliders, cooters , painted, map, yellow bellied adjectives are basically the same and require the same makeshift care.
For their needed protein and calcium drop 20 or so feeder guppies, goldfish or minnows in the tank and view them disappear in a few days! When I got these two 36 yrs ago all we have in back then be goldfish to feed , so after 36 yrs and still going strong. They can eat goldfish!
This way when they swim for their dinner they return with exercise also! TOSS in a bird cuttle bone in the water for calcium that will promote better shell growth, it will dissolve material slow and if they eat it that’s fine!!
They can have garden worms, feast worms, snails, crickets, flies, crayfish small frogs, slugs, tadpoles dragon flies and anything that moves, but only as a treat.
They need leafy greens Romaine, Butter lettuce. (Iceberg and cabbage are bad for them, any other leafy greens will do) for vitamin A that they necessitate at least 3 to 4 times a week.
They love grapes and strawberries and squash..
Did you know that they need to bask under a reptile street lamp UVA/UVB for up to 8 hrs a day for the vitamin D that they need to grow. So that means getting a turtle dock also.
Leave the heating system on 75 to 78 degrees always.
These turtles in captivity do not hibernate their intake may slow down some but they will not hibernate.
These are not cuddly pets and will bite very very hard.
Under 4" they convey a disease called 'salmonella'. So you must wash after every handling. These guys can become cannibalistic and will kill the smallest turtle whether there is not enough room and food.
And my pictures don't lie. All ages and adjectives sizes get along as long as their is allot for swim room and plenty to eat!
Their water requests to be clean otherwise they get sick easily from dirty river cause they poop allot. You need a good filter system!
Total Body length: 5-8" average for males, up to 12 inches max for females. Life span: 15-25+ years
Males enjoy the longer front nails and are used in mating. And are considered seasoned at about 5 yrs old. You can’t start sexing till about 3” across.
Gravel larger than they can swallow.
They sleep at the bottom of rivers, streams. lake or ponds or your tank to avoid predators like coyotes, foxes, owls, hawks, possums, raccoons and even some wide mouth bass and us humans.
You probably already know that they bring back sick easily, shell rot, respiratory sickness, lopsided swimming, coughing, blowing bubbles from their nose. Fungus white cotton patches on their skin?
**Swollen cloudy eyes which medium lacking in Vitamin A. Which we all have need of for good eyes. Google ‘vegetables with Vitamin A.
Contact the “www.anapsid.org/societies, for a turtle vet / RESCUE in your city and state. I decision you luck.
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Nope the Africans would do some kind of sacrafice dance but naked on the turtles and slaughter them. Save your pets.
