turtle turtle,what kind am i.......
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also
some might have missed this thread
i caught 2 more turtles but released them
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=172400
some might have missed this thread
i caught 2 more turtles but released them
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=172400
If hes not eating,he probably needs more heat.In the photo with his legs outstretched-typical basking behaviour,trying to warm up.Put a spotlight over his log,and make sure you have a 10% UV tube also.If he wont go for pellets,get him started with small earthworms.
You guys cant defenetly fend for your selfs regarding turts
First of that is a cooter(no doubt about that
) and is one of the Pseudemys floridana complex. Can either be a peninsularis like some other menber has sugested or a true floridana. However that doesant matter since the care is the same. Your setup is fine. It has a small filter ,a aquarium heater (to keep temp in the 80´s fareneigth) and a uv ligth, rigth? Your turt needs time to setle. Ad some more plastic or natural plants like anacharis and float them so to ad cover. It can be tricky to feed a turt that small. I bet it will not take pellets for now, but buy a reptomin baby anyway, you will need it sooner or later. Try some of this foods: bloodworms, pinhead crickets, artemia, dapnia and small bits of fish and chicken. Your turt needs calcium to harden its bonnes or she will sufer from lack of calcium very soon. To do so I sugest you do this as the main corse for your turt(Ive raised many turts this way and always had very good results) Get a small peace of chicken, shred it as much as you can into very small bits and then put them together like a hamburger
Then you can ad one or both of 2 things: reptivite from zoomed or pulverized tetra reptomin pellets. Rub the chicken mash in thouse things and mix well(dont over do the reptivite, only a bit is egnoff) and make small peaces of the mix. Now you need to put the food in front of the turt face. For that get a slender stick or a tweser. I think your turt will acept that readly Also dont forget cooters in the wild are great consumers of plants. For now is dodfull that your turt will acept any veggys but for the time being try to persuade her to eat the by putting things like collard greens and mustard greens in the tank. And by any means DONT put your baby turt with your softshell, the softshell will have no prob at all to kill or seriously injure your turt
First of that is a cooter(no doubt about that) and is one of the Pseudemys floridana complex. Can either be a peninsularis like some other menber has sugested or a true floridana. However that doesant matter since the care is the same. Your setup is fine. It has a small filter ,a aquarium heater (to keep temp in the 80´s fareneigth) and a uv ligth, rigth? Your turt needs time to setle. Ad some more plastic or natural plants like anacharis and float them so to ad cover. It can be tricky to feed a turt that small. I bet it will not take pellets for now, but buy a reptomin baby anyway, you will need it sooner or later. Try some of this foods: bloodworms, pinhead crickets, artemia, dapnia and small bits of fish and chicken. Your turt needs calcium to harden its bonnes or she will sufer from lack of calcium very soon. To do so I sugest you do this as the main corse for your turt(Ive raised many turts this way and always had very good results) Get a small peace of chicken, shred it as much as you can into very small bits and then put them together like a hamburger Then you can ad one or both of 2 things: reptivite from zoomed or pulverized tetra reptomin pellets. Rub the chicken mash in thouse things and mix well(dont over do the reptivite, only a bit is egnoff) and make small peaces of the mix. Now you need to put the food in front of the turt face. For that get a slender stick or a tweser. I think your turt will acept that readly Also dont forget cooters in the wild are great consumers of plants. For now is dodfull that your turt will acept any veggys but for the time being try to persuade her to eat the by putting things like collard greens and mustard greens in the tank. And by any means DONT put your baby turt with your softshell, the softshell will have no prob at all to kill or seriously injure your turt
Peninsula Cooter ...see full dark spots on underside.
http://www.empireoftheturtle.com/Florida/pseudemys_floridana.htm
He's not eating cause he doesn't recognize that (pellets) as food.
Do like coura said, you stick in his face and once he bites it and tastes it he'll catch on fast.
Dr Joe
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