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Its a Chicken Turtle (Deirochelys reticularia)

Welcome to the world of dbts. One of the problems that sometimes can effect dbts raised in freshwater. It is a harmless type of fungus that turns the shell white. The mysterious shell haze, and there really isnt an answer to what causes it. All you can do now is add some salt to stop it from...

Turtles* not space lol

Id shorten them, alot of opportunity for more space for the space.

Will the basking area be raised up more? Looks like its way down in there. If your only gonna fill to that height.

If your getting excessive skin shedding, usually means your feeding to much protein with a combination of warm water.

Plant lights mimic to produce a spectrum that mimics the sun. MVB is the same thing except they produce heat too. They will work really well with plants.

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.

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.

Can always build a metal frame to fit over top of stock tank. Stops anything from going in.

Petco's deal only goes up to 55gallon. Anything bigger isnt part of it.

When I owned them Mazuri turtle pellets.

Yes they can lay infertile eggs. Why dont they do it much as chickens is actually a simple answer. Chickens have been so selectively breed for egg production for 1000s of years to get them to lay that many eggs. So turtles still follow the instinct to produce future generations. So for them its...

Thats actually something you dont have to worry about. They were designed to take a beating even in the winter months. Even the metal ones. So you can have happy frozen turtles.

What size stock tank are you thinking about getting? Almost all stock tanks have a ledge near the top that all you have to do is cut a board that runs across it and sits on the ledge and all you need is to make a ramp of your choice connected with it. Example on a metal stock tank. Plastic stock...

The first new pic the golden coloration is normal shedding so thats good. Just dont wanna see pure white like this.

Yea I have that feeling its probably shell rot actually. I noticed in the pic female he was down below her and unless it was trick of the water. If you noticed two lumps are now at either side of his head. He has double ear abscesses

Any chance you can get better pics. Ill Be the devils advocate here. Possible that its not normal shedding to me, some areas look too white? Also is that an actual indent in the 4th pic like shell has hole at side?

Very common for males when they get older to become Melanistic.

I learned turtles quickly regain their instincts of fear and survival once you put them outside in a pond. Also dont need mud for turtle to hibernate. They just need not get frozen and they do fine.