Ron
Fish Addict
Turtles are great, deffinatly get 1. I have 2 snapping turtles, 2 painted turtles, and 1 RES (red earded slider). It depends on where your from, but if you live in northern USA, it's a very good chance that you have a RES. Does it have a red 'ear'? Whats teh coloration? You need a UVB light, you can get them for 10 bucks at pet shops. You need a basking light over your rocks. keep the temp on the rocks between 86-92 degrees F. Do you have a filter? You need a very powerful one that will filter all the water at least once an hour. You need a heater to maintain the water temp at 75-80 degrees. Feed your turtle feeder guppies, earth and meal worms, brine shrimp, snails, pellets, freeze dried krill. freeze dried tubiflex worms, and some non-piosonous insects, like dragonflies. Have the diet be very very ballanced. Not too much of anything. Mix it up. You'll need a vitamin supplement as well. You can get it in a powder form and spinkle it on the food. Turtles in captivity can live any where from 10-30 years. But it's usually right around 20. If you have shell rot, you'll see a white-'thing' clinging to your trutles shell. It's usually mistaken for shedding skin. There is one distiction between shell rot and shedding skin, you can see the shell rot even out of the water, the shedding skin you can only see in the water. You should emediatly remove the turtle from the aquarium. and soak his shell in bettadine. Keep him completely dry untill he gets better. But you have to give him two 30 minute baths in warm, clean water everyday. So he doesn't dehydrate. Untill, the fungus goes away, repeat this. The shell rot is caused by unclean water, and too cold of water. Hope thsi helps, and good Luck!
Ron
Ron
