fish with turtles??

[DustyBZoo]

Also, why not just keep them without fish? You won't have to worry about keeping a "cycled" tank thus maintenance will be that much easier aka empty what little water there is and clean the filter without having to worry about preserving bacteria. Not to mention feeding.

It sounds like these are your first turts? Keep it simple.

I agree, it's really hard to keep a turtle tank cycled under 150 gallons. Before my pond I had Poki in 120g with ehiem 2229 and a fluval 405, and it still needed massive water changes to keep the water clean.

Not to say it isn't possible, but turtles are pretty destructive when the feel the need.

 

[fishyz]

I'm wanting to put my turtle in my 150 native tank. I just have some shiners and stuff like that in there right now, no fun pickerels like you. The only catfish is a cory. I think the turtle would love all the space.

 

[basstank]

haha yeaa. i dont got my pickerel yet. i used too. but it was my friends.

 

[Gearhead]

Speaking of pickerels, mine just died randomly last night. Have no clue why, eating fine, swimming great and acting normal. I wake up and hes floating.

 

[Experiment397]

if you are gonna keep turtles with fish, it works best to do mainly aquatic species of turtle, such as. fly river turtles and softshells.

 

[mindfreak]

if you keep your turtle well fed there is a slight chance it wont eat your fish, but if he thinks the fish looks like a good snackl, he'll eat it. the bad thing about keeping your turtle in an established fish tank, youll be raising the ammonia immensley risking all of the fishes lives taking the chance of causing an ammonia spike. If you do put your turtle in the tank: Do routine water changes (25-30%) 2x a week. to lower the ammonia load in the tank. I DO NOT RECCOMEND PUTTING YOUR TURTLE IN WITH FISH. There is a big risk that your taking of your turtle eating the fish.

 

[basstank]

i wont be doing that thnx guys!

 

[basstank]

Speaking of pickerels, mine just died randomly last night. Have no clue why, eating fine, swimming great and acting normal. I wake up and hes floating.

aww dude im soo sorry! man! i know you keep such good care of your tanks! well dude keep up your fish keeping. just get another one! idk wuts gunna happen to me once one of my fish die. ill be a wreck. haha i probably sound like a flammer but i will. i get really close to my littles buds. haha thats why i want a turtle so i can take it outside and play wit him out there for a little. but sorry man keep it up! ur the best!

 

[Zfishies]

wait painted turtles can live in a 20gallon for life????! thats cool if you can do that. and for the ammonia put in some live plants or if big enough try in your native tank some pond plants

 

[basstank]

no they can just live for a few months, thatll just be a temp tank for it.