help..smallest baby i have ever seen!!!!

[estuary]

ahhh your temping me now i want one
congrats on your new turtle

 

[Vicious_Fish]

It looks like a baby Eastern Painted Turtle to me.

 

[Red Devil]

ahhh your temping me now i want one
congrats on your new turtle

maybe i can ship him to you when he is old enough to travel.. i am getting too old for all these rescues.. they will outlive me.. he has a life span of thirty years or more... but i can never leave them out in the wild this young,,so few make it.

 

[Red Devil]

It looks like a baby Eastern Painted Turtle to me.

That would make sense because this is the east!!

 

[Vicious_Fish]

maybe i can ship him to you when he is old enough to travel.. i am getting too old for all these rescues.. they will outlive me.. he has a life span of thirty years or more... but i can never leave them out in the wild this young,,so few make it.

Liz why don't just put him in your goldfish pond? Goldfish or koi won't bother him and as long as the water is a few feet deep and you have some mud on the bottom to bury into, he can survive there without a problem. When I raised Midland and Eastern Painted Turtles I kept them outdoors all year long.

 

[Red Devil]

Liz why don't just put him in your goldfish pond? Goldfish or koi won't bother him and as long as the water is a few feet deep and you have some mud on the bottom to bury into, he can survive there all year long. When I raised Midland and Eastern Painted Turtles I kept them outdoors all year long.

my goldfish are still in the basement pond... i was just starting to clean the pond outside and get it ready for them to come back out. when i spotted the tiny turtle...so i can add him to it later.. the only trouble is i have nothing high enough for him to bask on .. except for lily pads etc..

 

[Vicious_Fish]

I wonder where he came from. Is there a larger body of water nearby? Is he able to climb on something along the edge of the pond? Even if you took a piece of slate and laid it at an angle along the side in a shallow place in the pond, he'd use it.

 

[estuary]

my goldfish are still in the basement pond... i was just starting to clean the pond outside and get it ready for them to come back out. when i spotted the tiny turtle...so i can add him to it later.. the only trouble is i have nothing high enough for him to bask on .. except for lily pads etc..

a large rock on shore half in half out of the water, or a log

 

[Red Devil]

a large rock on shore half in half out of the water, or a log

yes a floating log would be good..i really don't want to make it easy for wild life to get to my fish,,so a log floating kind of flat would do it..he would not bother the gold fish?? i know he would eat the goldfish babies but then so do the frogs..

 

[Red Devil]

I wonder where he came from. Is there a larger body of water nearby? Is he able to climb on something along the edge of the pond? Even if you took a piece of slate and laid it at an angle along the side in a shallow place in the pond, he'd use it.

i have a beautiful swamp pond across the street..beavers are building the dam up and making the pond even bigger