How many gallons for pond slider?

[OliveFish05]

Hi! How many gallons does a red ear pond spider turtle need? How much space? Somebody is rehoming one near me, it currently lives in a 36” inch bow front tank with no area to rest. The listing says “his little dock broke, so I get him out of the tank to rest every couple days” it is a pretty decent sized turtle… I am working on planning a space where I can have a few stock tanks and wading pools setup outdoors to grow plants, and would love to try to make a space for this turtle.

 

[itiwhetu]

I kept my three in 250 liters

Red Slider Adventure.

I got a call one night the school could no longer look after their Red Sliders. They had been living in a bath and no one knew what to do with them. So, I took them on. I built them a new home. With about as much luxury as a red slider or three could have. I kept these guys for about a year...

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[Rocky998]

Ive always heard that its 10 gallons per inch of shell... So 120 gallons MINIMUM... I wanted to keep one until I saw that LOL... In fact I did keep a turtle once but it was a baby that wondered onto our doorstep... We only kept it for a few days and then set it free.

 

[OliveFish05]

Ive always heard that its 10 gallons per inch of shell... So 120 gallons MINIMUM... I wanted to keep one until I saw that LOL... In fact I did keep a turtle once but it was a baby that wondered onto our doorstep... We only kept it for a few days and then set it free.

Awwww precious! We kept a little red eared slider for a summer. As much as I love my tropical fish, I think I could be happy with ponds for the rest of my life... koi and turtles and goldfish and Pygmy sunfish and all those. I am looking at a 110 gallon stock tank that measures 53 inches long, 36 inches wide, and 20 inches tall. obviously after a land section it would only be about 80 gallons... I could potentially dig a pond. I think I will have to pass on the ph turtle though, I don’t think I have a winter solution for it