I'd these turtles please
- Thread starter Stedz2121
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you could get away w/ it, there are a few you COULD do, but there's also a very good chance they would get eaten. If you try a Pleco, make sure it's BIG.....and you need a LOT of heavy filtration for big plecos......PLUS 2 turtles. You SURE you want to go that route?
Stinkpots and musk turtles are not pescivores and do great with fish. Maps and muds can be a little bit of a gamble. Do not put a pleco in with them, if you are lucky the pleco will end up with nipped fins. Plecos will chew on the turtles shells and cause shell rot issues. To tell if you mud/musk/stinkpot you can tell by the carapace hinge. A little bit of google-ing you should be able to figure it out.
There are 5 turtles in total. As I say it was a rescue. The guy had gave up on them. They are in a 2ft tank with no basking area or nothing. Iv added my own filter and heater. As I'm still half way through doing a fish room. Uvb bulb and basking area is on order. Once my fish room is done they will be in a 500 liter tank. I'm doing daily water changes at the minute until then
why all these stories from people about plecos doing all this damage to reptiles and fish? I've had plecos for 30 years on and off and never had them cause any problem but excess bio-load. Must be just another one of those things I got "lucky" on....
As far as Musk and Stinkpots, I have caught plenty on trout minnows by accident, which is why I don't recommend them kept w/ fish( as well as Snapping turtles and RES). Turtles period are already a serious strain on almost any filter, especially 5 of them. The water quality for fish would just get toxic in no time.
i'm guessing 5 turtles, and only 2 species
As far as fish I would go with:sunfish species,large peaceful species such as datnoids,synspilum,yellow lab cichlids.
Avoid slow swimming and bite size fish (except guppies which can breed faster than they get eaten),sucess is better in big tanks or ponds(your gonna need a lot of room for 5turtles)
Avoid slow swimming and bite size fish (except guppies which can breed faster than they get eaten),sucess is better in big tanks or ponds(your gonna need a lot of room for 5turtles)
I would think most turtles are too active for most plecos to do any real harm to their shells.I can't imagine too many plecos actively chasing turtles around a tank.
