Best Aquarium Turtle?

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rothenfluh

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I have a freshwater 50 Gal H tank (about 2 ½) feet of water with a few small puffers. I would like to get a couple of turtles to go with them. What is the best freshwater turtle for an aquarium that would only need a turtle dock, would be fine in a few feet of water, and likes to swim around? Thanks so much!
 
rothenfluh;3385986; said:
I have a freshwater 50 Gal H tank (about 2 ½) feet of water with a few small puffers. I would like to get a couple of turtles to go with them. What is the best freshwater turtle for an aquarium that would only need a turtle dock, would be fine in a few feet of water, and likes to swim around? Thanks so much!
To be honest, turtles and puffers never really make a good combination (although it has been done before).
 
No turtles on your tank. Turtle kills slow moving fish, turtle eats fish
and turtle dies poisoned. Or slow moving but agressive fish takes chunks out of turts shell. VERY BAD COMBO dont do it
 
Fly river turtles - to the best of my knowledge - are the only fully aquatic species of turtle available.

Puffer fish would surely nip at the eyes of something like that - or vice verse, in which case the turtle will get ill or die of poisoning from biting the puffer.

Either way it's a bad combo - especially with the high price on fly river turtles.

If you have your heart set on keeping a puffer - expect it to be a single fish in the tank, as all puffers are highly territorial, and will at best shred fins of tank mates.

If you have your heart set on a turtle - invest in a fly river turtle, a larger tank, and there are countless combination's of fish you can keep it with.
 
Pinkbelly Sidenecks. Graceful swimmers and Fun to watch swim.
When i first started smoking Weed I could watch them for days. Theres something about them/ Even as hatchlings they are born swimmers.
 
What fish can take a chunk out of a turtles shell?
 
Stinkpots are also pretty much totally aquatic. They dont get very big and they move slow. (Faster than puffers though so I wouldnt recomend it)
 
clubtastic;3400962; said:
Pinkbelly Sidenecks. Graceful swimmers and Fun to watch swim.
When i first started smoking Weed I could watch them for days. Theres something about them/ Even as hatchlings they are born swimmers.
:WTF:
 
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