turtles for outdoor pond
- Thread starter Brent
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Just RES's or do you have others in mind?
If it's deep enough to stay cool in the summer and may need heat in the winter without a mud bottom for them to dig into. You need alot of filtration with turtles (messy).
If it's deep enough to stay cool in the summer and may need heat in the winter without a mud bottom for them to dig into. You need alot of filtration with turtles (messy).
Turtles are tricky in ponds...
They eat everything (IE fish, snails,and will snack on plants). They are good exscape artisits. And as Joe pointed out, if you want to over winter them it is almost next to impossible due to the need for something to burrow into. I put my E. Painted in my pond in the summer, but only for a few hours at a time, while supervised (sitting on the patio enjoying a frosty bev.) He likes to chase the fish and get some real sunlight to bask in. I like so he can stretch out and really swim.
They eat everything (IE fish, snails,and will snack on plants). They are good exscape artisits. And as Joe pointed out, if you want to over winter them it is almost next to impossible due to the need for something to burrow into. I put my E. Painted in my pond in the summer, but only for a few hours at a time, while supervised (sitting on the patio enjoying a frosty bev.) He likes to chase the fish and get some real sunlight to bask in. I like so he can stretch out and really swim.
thats what i was thinking a red ear slider the pond is a 300 gallon rubermaid its outside with nothing in it i have a floating basking spot that gets sun i would want him in there year round also there is pool filter sand on the bottom a few inches of it
I had a RES in a in ground pond that was maybe 125 gal (preformed from lowes) for a few years. I never heated it and there wasn't really a whole lot on the bottom. Just some leaves but not so many that he covered himself in. He did fine...but I dont know if that was because it was in ground. I am doing an above ground pond at my new house and plan to put him back out in it.
they are escape artist they will decide to leave and they will find a way out i would recomend and inclosure of some sort.