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She has burrowed herself in a little hole not sure if she getting ready to hibernate or if this is a nest for her eggs?

I have noticed in the past few days that my mud turtle has been acting different. She has dug a hole beside the rocks in my tank as shown in picture 1 and she seems to sit on top of their log alot more than usual where my male mud turtle is shown in picture 2. Could she be pregnant? I made a...

I have seen my mud turtles breeding recently and I just wanted to know, how can I tell if my mud turtles are pregnant?

Can someone identify what breed of turtle/tortoise this is? My neighbor brought it to me and I don’t want to put it in my aquarium incase it is a tortoise. From internet pictures I want to say it is a eastern box turtle but it’s shell does not looks exactly the same.

So today I looked at my mud turtles tails and seen what looked to maybe be it’s genitalia that happened to appear. Not sure if it’s male or female parts but hopefully someone can help me find out. The mud turtle above has a much wider and longer tail than my other mud turtle shown below.

Left turtle Right turtle I have two mud turtles and I would like to know if anyone could help me find out what their genders and age are. I have been searching the web and could not find any helpful info. The turtle on the right is about 3” in length and the turtle on the left is about...

So I have had a problem with brown algae in my tank lately so I bought a Pleco today to take care of it, and I just wanted to know if my mud turtle would attempt to eat it if it happened to be laying still against a rock or the glass inside my of tank while it is feeding?

I am having a problem with algae in my tank, the last time I cleaned it I used a paper towel to wipe all of it off and it came off easily from my tank glass but it has come back and it’s spotted on my tank glass and all in my filter and also it shows up brown on my plants (seen in photos). I...

My tanks glass is all of a sudden covered in these white spots, can anyone identify them?

So I came home today to discover that my fish's tail was bitten off, don't know if it was another fish that did it or my turtle but she has scratches on her body as well, will she be alright or is she in bad shape ?

So I've been trying to grow this anarchis elodea sprout in his bowl and the algae growth seems to get worse and is all over the plant. I have attempted to remove twice but it keeps coming back, can anyone give me advice for completely getting rid of it?

I recently have seen a buildup of hair algae in my duckweed growing bowl and it's stuck all on the roots, so I tried moving the plants into my guppy tank and they seem to be eating it off the roots which is perfect! But, the algae seems to come back once I move it back into the grow bowl, how...

This slimy white stuff keeps appearing on the stick in my turtle tank, can anyone help me identify it and is it harmful to my turtle or fish?

I want to put duckweed and other floating aquatic plants in my aquarium but my filters waterfall moves the plants towards it and pushes them down into the water where it eventually gets stuck into the intake as seen in the photo, I made a baffler out of a cut up water bottle to try to slow the...

I have a 10 gal turtle tank with the Aqua Culture LED tank top and I was wondering if I could grow duckweed under this lighting?

I just upgraded my eastern mud turtles 10 gallon tank and was thinking about adding some fish. Any suggestions of a species that will go along well and that he wont eat?

I am growing some duckweed in a bowl inside for my guppies and turtle to eat, and there seems to be a lot of little brown things in the water swimming around. Can anyone identify these things?

I got this new heat lamp for my mud turtle to bask under with a 75 watt bulb, and it says it reaches 99 degrees. Is it too much heat for him? Also how long should I keep it on during the day?

I got this new heat lamp for my mud turtle to bask under with a 75 watt bulb, and it says it reaches 99 degrees. Is it too much heat for him? Also how long should I keep it on during the day?

I have these 3 elodea plants seen in the photo, and ever since I sat them outside to get sun they have turned a lighter green and sunken to the bottom of the water. I have noticed though that they have new buds forming on them so that means they are still growing. Can anyone explain why this has...