Anyone keep any native NA species with turtles without problems? I currently have about 4 tanks devoted to turtles and would love to be able to add some natives to it. I've got one RES that I know it won't work with, but anyone succesfully do it?
Natives with turtles
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yes, check out my fish tanks. The 55 i have a red eared slider, and the ten gallon i have a baby musk turtle.
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jdryden;1488661; said:
There is no such thing as fish with RES without problems... Any fish with these animals is food in waiting....
If the fish is too big to swallow they'll bite it until they get a piece that isn't.
They don't even have to be that hungry, they'll rip chunks out of stuff just because they can.
If you want to add fish think of them as feeders and enjoy watching them until at least some of them likely get eaten.
They may not catch all of them though. I traded something to my petstore for a whole ton of platys to feed my turtles and I still have four of them that they couldn't catch. That's 4 out of about 20 though...
They don't even have to be that hungry, they'll rip chunks out of stuff just because they can.
If you want to add fish think of them as feeders and enjoy watching them until at least some of them likely get eaten.
They may not catch all of them though. I traded something to my petstore for a whole ton of platys to feed my turtles and I still have four of them that they couldn't catch. That's 4 out of about 20 though...
best bet is to use fish that you dont mind getting eating, really fast fish (but they may be picked of at night), or very cautious wary fish. I have sunfish with them, which are pretty wary of the location of the turtle. Give them alot of hiding places. My sunfish hid under rocks and logs until they became comfortable and began to swim around the tank. However I am lucky to have a turtle with a low attention span. So after the first night, if he cant catch it, he won't bother it. However, if any fish looses its guard, it has a chance of getting a chunk missing from it.
My best luck is with bullheads, and sunfish. They are agressive as well as quick.I also have a bunch of fish with my little musk turtle, who is to slow to catch them.
My best luck is with bullheads, and sunfish. They are agressive as well as quick.I also have a bunch of fish with my little musk turtle, who is to slow to catch them.
We stuck a perch in with my oldest RES that was bigger than she was. The RES tried to eat it. Now in my other tank with the map turtles, we have 5 platies and a chinese algae eater that are thriving and reproducing. The turts aren't the least bit interested in them. Been like that for a month with the platys and even longer with the CAE.
i had a cae with a res for months before it became dinner. i have also kept him with oscar, CK, and rockbass. the oscar had even taken food from the turtles mouth before. with any turtle/fish combo you are always risking one or the other (usually the fish) what other turtles do you have?
BlokOne;1490123; said:
I've got a RES as sole occupant of a 40g, a juvie RES, juvie common Map, sub adult Ouachita Map, residing in a 55g, a juvie common snapper in a 55g, and the rest are terrestrial. The RES in the 40 I've had for about 5 years, and she has the worst disposition of any ANIMAL I have. She views anything and everything as food. If she can get to it, she will try to eat it.
I was thinking bout putting a florida softshell with smallmouth bass, muskie, walleye, perch, black crappie, largemouth bass in a 210gallon. Think this would work if the turtle was small.