Will Anything live with turtles?

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Will anything,
anything at all live with a stinkpot/common musk Turtle?
i know fish cant live with sliders and painteds because they will bite.
but since stinkpots are so small. do you think they might be an exception?
 
i seen some type of turtle living with pacus at a lfs in china town but i can't recall what was the scientific name they had very long necks that's the thing that stand ed out to me so it might work.
 
My Yellow Bellied Slider has 'friended' some fish. My roommate brought home 10 guppies and 6 feeder goldfish to "liven up" the tank. Curtis (who I found out is a girl...) ate all but 3 guppies and 3 goldfish. Curtis doesn't even go after the ones she left, and they have been in there for almost 3 months....
 
you need bottom walkers like stinkpots for a better chance of it working.

i have some type of musk coming back to me (i gave it to my friend for a year) and an african sideneck turtle. i keep things from loaches and barbs to cichlids and catfish. i keep the turtles well fed. tank is large...and there are many hiding places so they couldn't catch fish if they tried
 
Like VF, I have kept bite-size fish with my stinkpots and stripeneck musks, and the turtles seems oblivious to the fishes' presence. You probably shouldn't risk any fish that are valuable to you, though.

Snails and crayfish won't last long with them.
 
I posted a reply to another thread about fish with turtles today. I don't know how to import in into this thread but you could probably easily find it. Basically I told about having some success with a 1 year old pond slider with 4 opaline gouramis in a bare bottom with large rock-work 55 gal. I kept them together for a year without incident. It was a pretty interesting tank.
 
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