Painted Turtle Pictures.. And Personal Experience.

[Tylervsmith]

This is what I want from you.

And if i can have permission to use your personal accounts and pictures for a letter to a teacher of mine.

Thank you.


Painted turtles only please...

 

[mudskipper]

i still have to get pics of my wild one. it has great color. it as in a ditch, that was drying out, so the turt hit the road, and i found it before it got ran over. it is about three inches

 

[Vicious_Fish]

I kept and bred both Eastern and Midland Painted turtles a while back. At one point I had 7 adults and about 2 dozen babies. I kept them outdoors from the late spring until early fall. The adults lived in a 550+ gallon pond.

In the winter I brought them indoors because my pond wasn't deep enough for them to hibernate in. They were kept in a custom made tank that was 5'x3'x2'. The water was kept around 76 degrees F. and I had a UVB light with a basking temperature between 85-90 degrees F.

Painted turtles have a omnivorous diet and I fed mine earthworms, crickets, tuna fish, Reptimin stix, koi pellets, freeze dried shirmp, aqutic insect larva, snails, tadpoles, fathead minnows, boiled leaf lettuce, spinach, peas, and aquatic plants.

I haven't kept painted turtles in 7 years so I don't know if I have any pics of the indoor setup. But I'll see if I have any pics of them in the outdoor pond that I kept them in.

 

[Tylervsmith]

I kept and bred both Eastern and Midland Painted turtles a while back. At one point I had 7 adults and about 2 dozen babies. I kept them outdoors from the late spring until early fall. The adults lived in a 550+ gallon pond.

In the winter I brought them indoors because my pond wasn't deep enough for them to hibernate in. They were kept in a custom made tank that was 5'x3'x2'. The water was kept around 76 degrees F. and I had a UVB light with a basking temperature between 85-90 degrees F.

Painted turtles have a omnivorous diet and I fed mine earthworms, crickets, tuna fish, Reptimin stix, koi pellets, freeze dried shirmp, aqutic insect larva, snails, tadpoles, fathead minnows, boiled leaf lettuce, spinach, peas, and aquatic plants.

I haven't kept painted turtles in 7 years so I don't know if I have any pics of the indoor setup. But I'll see if I have any pics of them in the outdoor pond that I kept them in.

thanks for the info.