Soft-shelled turtle

[lizardfishman]

I found a new born soft shell turtle in the grass next to the road outside my house and have it in a 10% filled 10gal. with a few natives and wanted to know if they need a uv light to survive or if i could just bring it inside and put it in one of my smaller tanks as a more stable enviornment since it is outside right now. if not, i'll just let it go in my home pond and let it do whatever it wants. Please help.

 

[cichla1004]

I found a new born soft shell turtle in the grass next to the road outside my house and have it in a 10% filled 10gal. with a few natives and wanted to know if they need a uv light to survive or if i could just bring it inside and put it in one of my smaller tanks as a more stable enviornment since it is outside right now. if not, i'll just let it go in my home pond and let it do whatever it wants. Please help.

I would put it in the pond. They do need uva/uvb for calcium/d3 production. Or you could bring him inside and get some uv lights.

 

[lizardfishman]

aight thnx ill put him in the pond along with the little natives-soon to be feeders.

 

[vicedretard]

i think cichla said enough to answer your questions and i agree with his response

 

[DeLgAdO]

I found a new born soft shell turtle in the grass next to the road outside my house and have it in a 10% filled 10gal. with a few natives and wanted to know if they need a uv light to survive or if i could just bring it inside and put it in one of my smaller tanks as a more stable enviornment since it is outside right now. if not, i'll just let it go in my home pond and let it do whatever it wants. Please help.

keep it in the tank, better yet go buy a glass 55

buy a zoomed powersun light bulb

its heat and uvb/uva in one bulb, they are very effective and produce higher levels of uvb and A than tubes.

if you keep it outside in a pond you run the risk of it being taken by predators because of its small size.

raise it indoors until it reaches a decent size then go ahead and put it in the pond