Most experienced keepers do not go with the one inch for every turtle. Its just a good rule to get people out of keeping them in smaller tanks. As it starts to become unreasonable with larger tanks. A larger tank 75+ can easily keep two larger res.
Most experienced keepers do not go with the one inch for every turtle. Its just a good rule to get people out of keeping them in smaller tanks. As it starts to become unreasonable with larger tanks. A larger tank 75+ can easily keep two larger res.
No, i feel 75 would be the minimum for a large female. Then getting into the really large res that push past 8.5 inches still gonna have to go with a bigger setup but those can house more then one.That is good to know does that mean one adult female could live in a 55 gallon tank?
No, i feel 75 would be the minimum for a large female. Then getting into the really large res that push past 8.5 inches still gonna have to go with a bigger setup but those can house more then one.
Is there a way to determine how big they will get? My girls are 4.5 and 5, and they're only 3 years old.No, i feel 75 would be the minimum for a large female. Then getting into the really large res that push past 8.5 inches still gonna have to go with a bigger setup but those can house more then one.
maybe this can help...
I had to deal with fungus on a7 yr old tiger oscar, and I'm not seeing any cottony, fluffy type of substance. The shell is hard, no soft spots from what I can tell, which is why I question if it's shell rot. My other thought is that it's mineral deposits from all of its years in unfiltered, untreated water? The red on her "ears" is very pale, almost pink hopefully that's natural and not a sign of stress or something. I also noticed some white spots on Tomato's belly today. :-/but white spots on the shell can be algae or fungy, maybe it's not shellrot...is she eating, swiming, doing normal stuff or just sitig in a corner?
That's so wonderful of y'all to have saved her! Wow, that is a BIG girl! Hopefully mine don't grow to be quite that big, but since they live such a long time, I want to make sure I do this right!I would consider a rubbermaid 300 gallon stock tank to be the ideal enclosure for a large female red ear. To answer questions about how big female red ears can get, the answer is unbelievably friggin huge. Last summer, my brother and I pulled a giant girl out of a spillway near Woodlawn Lake. She was too big to put in our home depot bucket, and though I didn't have a tape measure with me at the time, I'm certain that she was well past sixteen inches total length. I had to pull four fish hooks out of the poor girls mouth with a pair of needle nosed pliers, and she was trying to take a piece out of me the entire time. Once we got her fish hook free, I took her back home to live in a kiddie pool I had set up to make sure she didn't come down with an infection. Living near Woodlawn and the numerous duck feeding stations, she was accustomed to mazuri koi food, so once she'd gained some weight and started to heal up, my brother and I took her back to the lake for release. Red ears are awesome pets, and it really is a shame that they're so often the recipients of lousy care. People don't realize that that ten dollar little green guy in a flea market fish bowl is going to require close to a thousand dollars worth of durable aquatic maintenance equipment to keep him healthy over his surprisingly long thirty year lifespan. This isn't a cat or dog here, where you can grow up with him/her and have his/her death mark a rite of passage into adulthood. No, this is a turtle. If you do your job, he could outlive your parents.
http://www.zoro.com/i/G1373872/?utm...hopping_Feed&gclid=CKqAo6evusMCFQotaQodHSkAyQ
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Here is a setup that was cheap and eazy to build .
Update on the turtle front... Tomato and Tohmahto have an appointment with the vet tomorrow morning. $75 per turtle, and if it is indeed shell rot, $25-$50 per turtle for medicine, AND I would have to learn how to give shots to turtles! Yeesh! I give shots to horses all the time, but the thought of giving one to a turtle makes me cringe! Anyone have suggestions for what I should ask the vet while I'm there?