New Turtle!
- Thread starter firebellied man
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thanks for the concern but i know that the water will be fine and the filter is needed as there are baby sunfish in there.
Do you want a sunfish tank or a turtle tank?
This is just a guess but I'd be willing to bet the advice your so willfully ignoring is coming from people who do know what they are talking about.
As yet another person who obviously has more experience keeping small turtles I agree...theres too much water, decoration, filtration for such a small turtle.
This is just a guess but I'd be willing to bet the advice your so willfully ignoring is coming from people who do know what they are talking about.
As yet another person who obviously has more experience keeping small turtles I agree...theres too much water, decoration, filtration for such a small turtle.
i am listening. i am just saying that he will be fine in such DEEP water (4inches) because he has a ton of floating plants, bulbs, and other stuff to climb on. he floats even when he is out in the open. he cant even go underwater because he floats. i know what im doing as ive kept turtles of this size before.
that's why you only have 2 now, and at least one of them got sick, as well as not noting the difference between swimming turtles and walking turtles. Here's some helpful advice I heed you to take if you plan on keeping this turtle alive.
Walking turtles: Turtles that walk on the bottom (musk turtles included) are very poor swimmers that need shallow water and many ways to clamber around in their habitat. At least until the turtle is a little bigger, keep it by itself, because as you should be well aware, bluegill can be rather aggressive in captivity. Without the fish, the tank should be more hygenic, as well as being able to keep it in shallower water, which would be better for such a small turtle.
Swimming turtles: these would be like your other turtles (the painted and the map turtle). these can easily swim in deeper water, and they are much different in behavior than a turtle like a musk turtle.
The people on here do know what they are talking about. Please heed their advice. That's the end of my rant of the day.
Walking turtles: Turtles that walk on the bottom (musk turtles included) are very poor swimmers that need shallow water and many ways to clamber around in their habitat. At least until the turtle is a little bigger, keep it by itself, because as you should be well aware, bluegill can be rather aggressive in captivity. Without the fish, the tank should be more hygenic, as well as being able to keep it in shallower water, which would be better for such a small turtle.
Swimming turtles: these would be like your other turtles (the painted and the map turtle). these can easily swim in deeper water, and they are much different in behavior than a turtle like a musk turtle.
The people on here do know what they are talking about. Please heed their advice. That's the end of my rant of the day.
I would avoid using a filter at all right now. Baby turtles this small can easily be sucked into the intake of a filter. They might not fit through the opening but they can be trapped underwater and drown. I know this from first hand experience in the past. Keep it simple and just change the water every day. I find these guys are really easy to raise at this size in a shallow rubbermaid tub or cat litter pan.
No dude your not listening. People that have been keeping turtles for longer than you've been alive are giving you sound advice based on the species your keeping. And you'd prefer to keep it in a manner that if it doesn't lead to it's death will at the very least make it's captivity miserable. You clearly dont give a crap about the turtle only about how cool it looks swimming around in the tank you've put it in. Trust me...NO baby musk turtle naturally lives in water more than a few inch's in depth and they certainly dont live on top of a school of predatory fish.
