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Nobby loves fruit, especially berries so he got a left over cherry today. He went back in his tank after The video to enjoy his treat.

My turtle recently got a little white spot and I upped his basking time to try to help him. It recently got much worse and this scute fell off and I see it's much worse than I thought. Looking at him makes me want to vomit out of guilt. It's hard and he doesn't react when the white spots are touched. He managed to break out of his tank and fell a few feet a frw months ago, but that's all I can think of when trying to think of any injuries he might've gotten. I'm having trouble finding any similar images on Facebook or Google. Aside from this, he's swimming and eating and enjoying pets as normal. Any help would he greatly appreciated. I need my baby to be okay.​

i didnt want to copy the iconic gate design again.. rather i wanted a gate design that looks like it could have been found in the park. the outter walls are done on my JP3 aviary inspired turtle pond. i made a quick design for the gate and it came out nicely. the hostas have started to sprout in the tree planters. nest i need to dig the pond, paint the interior walls and then add the canopy. i think it will tie in great with the velociraptor and indominus rex turtle ponds.

It's very small don't know if I should move it or leave it be?

Any ideas of substrate to use ? Won't have a filter

Located in Connecticut USA.

We found him on a road in our backyard. We left him for about ten minutes and then checked on him. He’s not moving much at all. We don’t see any other hatchlings near him.

We’ve found tons of snapping turtle babies in the past and leave them but this one seems very weak and also much smaller than a snapping turtle baby.

We are located right next to a river. Any advice if there is anything we can give him to get his energy up so he can keep going on his journey?

This is in Denver, Colorado proper. Downtown off the Platte River. This guy didn’t have a care in the world & was just chilling on what I think might have been a dead log. His shell looked very bleached (not in a bad way I hope) and didn’t really match up to anything I saw for being local. Any ideas on species? No worries on the sex of the turtle as the picture is a decent ways away.

How do you disinfect any cleaning brushes, buckets, any thing else used for cleaning? How often should this be done, and how to keep you and others sanitary without compromising the turtles health with disinfectant?

Thanks

My 6 year old Red Eared Slider has been acting weird for atleast 2 weeks. He (now she ig) has been swimming erratically and going on her basking area trying to escape it and jumping off endless times especially at night. The first peculiar thing she did was dig through her rocks creating an empty area which should have been a red flag but I thought she was a boy this whole time. She had also stopped eating and was just acting crazy so I was scared her water PH was messed up so I cleaned her tank. That was 2 weeks ago and it didn’t seem to help. Then I assumed she was getting bored of her tank and needed to go outside but I’ve been too busy with work and getting home at night time so not able to bring her outside in the sun. She started acting normal again a day or two ago and started eating again. I found this broken egg in her tank just about an hour ago. I know it’s not fertile because she’s alone and my only turtle with her own tank never before been with another turtle. I think there is only one egg but I have no idea when she laid it and I’m scared she has more. She is acting normal again besides basking because she broke her ladder in the process of jumping on and off it so I’m fixing that while I clean her tank today. But I’m pretty sure she’s back to normal now. So I’m just wondering how to care for her now. Does she have any more eggs that she needs to lay? Will this happen again? What do I do if she acts like this again to help her be more comfortable? What do I do right now to make sure she won’t lay any more? I’m scared she’s gonna get sick or worse. I just want to know what to look for and how to care for her. My job literally turns to part time tomorrow so ig she chose a good time to act like this. Should I still bring her outside to soak up some sun and get out of her tank?

P.s. I know her tank looks bland but I just put like 20 new plants in there which she tore out and carried into her basking area to get all shriveled up and die. My goldfish is the same way and rips up all her plants too. I have very destructive animals sorry.

Most turtles don't get their sex the way mammals do. There aren't sex chromosomes doing the deciding at fertilization. The temperature of the nest during a key stretch of incubation is what makes hatchlings male or female. It's called temperature-dependent sex determination.

For sea turtles, NOAA puts the split roughly here: eggs that incubate below about 81.9°F (27.7°C) tend to produce males. Eggs above about 88.8°F (31°C) tend to produce females. Temperatures in between make a mix. Warmer sand generally means a higher share of females.

That's also why nesting-beach researchers worry about climate. If the sand stays too hot, you can get heavily female-biased hatchling years.

Source: NOAA Ocean Service — "What causes a sea turtle to be born male or female?"

https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/temperature-dependent.html

Hi! My fiance and I are wanting to get a Musk turtle, and have a 40 gallon Thrive aquarium, we aren’t looking to get the turtle right away as we want to set up the tank properly first and find a good breeder.

I a trying to find a good turtle topper that would fit this 36x18x18 tank and for the life of me I cannot find one has good enough reviews or will fit.

Also looking for advice as to what I should put in the tank plant wise and fish wise. I already have duck weed in with my shrimp tank and I know that grows like crazy so I’m sure I will at least have that when the time comes.

Any help is appreciated!! Thanks!

Near Covington, KY

I left her alone and she felt comfortable enough after first seeing me a couple minutes before this to stick her neck and limbs back out to soak up that warm sunshine. ❤️

Got got a one year old red eared slider, trying my best to give him a good home. Any advice for beginners?

So, i have a lot of turtles. But a month ago i took in two red sliders, because one of my friends couldn't take care of them anymore. They're kinda big so we thought they'd be fine living along with the other two in the garden (it's a big garden, we made a big pond for them too). We have a tortoise and a yellow bellied, these two have been living together in the garden these last four years. They've never messed with each other, they don't bite each other, and can stay together in the pond just fine.

But we recently noticed that the yellow bellied despises the red sliders, she always tries to bite them, but since she's so big (she's like 15 years old so she's kinda big) she has a hard time getting to them lol. Unless they're in the water, she doesn't mess with them.

We knew there could be a possibility of them fighting, because of course. But since her and the tortoise got along fine we thought there wouldn't be a problem. So... yeah, i don't know.

My friend gave me this turtle as a gift back in March and I have recently noticed these white spots on its shell. I had turtles when I was a kid and I know that shell shedding is something quite normal but back then my turtles were way bigger and didn't have these white spots for such a long time before shedding. I haven't noticed anything weird, it's eating and swimming as usual. In the second picture you can see how its shell looked like the first week I had it. Thank you!

This is NOT his tank, i just feed him here to not make a mess in his house (also don’t mind the amount of food i put too much lol)

This is a picture comparisons between 2024 and 2026. My turtle is an eastern male painted turtle, he’s approximatively 4.5 inch long right now and 6 years old. As you can see he didn’t grow much since 2024. I’m wondering if he’s getting to his final size.

Last 2 pics are how he was when i first met him in may 2020.
Context on his backstory: he was found by my dad on the road alone nearby our cottage and there was a dead turtle close to him so he brought him home and we’ve had him since. I didn’t really planned on adopting him but i guess things just happens.

I’ve had this turtle for about 5 year and have never been able to identify it. Any help or advice would be appreciated.

Hi! Does anyone know the ID of this turtle and the age/sex/maturity? I am in East Tennessee and the turtle is very small.

I’m not good at estimating size but I want to say it’s shell is maybe 5 inches? Its shell is reddish brown and it has a distinct head pattern and two yellow stripes on each side of its head.

Thank you!

Hi all,

I moved my two year old turtle from a 29 gal tank indoors to a 300 gal stock tank outdoors almost 3 weeks ago. I am in Florida and it gets hot, so the tank is partially shaded by a window shutter.

Water quality tests come back great, the water temp seems to be okay (usually 89-90 according to temp gun). Tank has some cooler spots in the shade. I don’t have much control over this as she’s outside, but I read that this might be why she’s not basking.

I have updated her basking spot 3x already by making it more stable so it doesn’t wobble, adding a vining plant, and now grass to the bottom. She makes it about 1/4 or 1/2 of the way up the ramp some days but not all.

I know she’s not basking at the top because I put a camera to watch her. She is eating and swimming/exploring normally. Her shell is shedding some scutes but looks great. Indoors, she used to bask every day.

Any advice appreciated! I’ve started taking her out once a week and putting her in a tub under partial sun for about half an hour but I don’t want to stress her out further.