Move in my future maybe, turtle question

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kearth

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I might be moving in the near future. The place I am moving to will have a pond. Not a home made pond made of plastic and such but a couple thousand gallon, dirt bottom, natural plants etc pond.

I would like to get into breeding a type of turtle. This will be in the border of OH/ PA so the temps get pretty cold in the winter. But there is always an option of bringing them inside to over winter as well.

I would love to try softshells but I think it may get too cold for them.

I would like to have fish in the pond as well. I dont think it will be an issue with it being a larger pond. I think there will be enough room for the fish to get away.

Any suggestions? Pics?
 
like how big? like 20x10?
and is the yard fenced? can they get away?
I think fish would be fine and for turtles I would rescue them, giving a pond to a RES thats been in a 10g for its whole life would be amazing and Im sure you could get tons of them for cheap and it would make you feel good!
 
You could keep Eastern Spiny or Smooth Softshells since they're native up here. Some other choices would be Painteds, Nothern Red-bellies, Maps, Sliders, Spotted, Mud and Musk Turtles.
 
Vicious_Fish;4397290; said:
You could keep Eastern Spiny or Smooth Softshells since they're native up here. Some other choices would be Painteds, Nothern Red-bellies, Maps, Sliders, Spotted, Mud and Musk Turtles.
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hell i did not know those were all native up here. Interesting. Thank you.

Now for the red eared slider thing. That is a pretty good idea as well. Would I be able to keep red ears and a type of softshell together?

The pond will probable be a bit bigger than 10X20. The one place I am looking at now has almost an acre pond. Partially fenced right now so it will have to fenced the rest of the way end. I am pretty sure it is not going to be cheap and will take a few months so I have plenty of time to get some more reasearch done.

When the final decision is made on the house. I will get pond pics and hopefully that will help.
 
Not 100% sure yet.
But the current on that is being looked at ranges from the sloping in of the sides to about 10-12 ft.

I dont think there is much of a market for CB red ears so I would prefer not to have a ton of hatchlings of red ears. Maybe I could just "rescue" ( god I hate that word) a few of the same sex on them.
 
There is shallower spots but the deepest is about the 10-12 ft.

There is quite a few feet around the diamater of the pond that is 1-3 ft deep.

Any of the native swimmers you would reccomend?
 
kearth;4397624; said:
There is shallower spots but the deepest is about the 10-12 ft.

There is quite a few feet around the diamater of the pond that is 1-3 ft deep.

Any of the native swimmers you would reccomend?
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When you mean swimmers do you mean basking species? If so Northern Red-bellies, Common Maps, Eastern/Midland Painteds can all over winter in that pond.
 
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