red-eared slider

Hello, folks. So yesterday I found this wasp in our house. I believe it is a bald-faced hornet. It appeared to be lethargic, so I let it go outside. Today I found it dead on our patio. It appeared to be crushed, and I suppose someone stepped on it. It was still moving its legs slowly, but...

Hello, folks. So, it's winter, and we're currently in the process of preparing our red-eared slider, Teresa, for winter hibernation (brumation). She is currently being housed in a small storage bin filled with water (without a water heater or a heat lamp) at around 68°F. This is only a...

Hello, folks! So the temperatures are dropping, and the snow is beginning to fall where we live. Our red-eared slider, Teresa, has already been taken safely inside. This is the time of year when I would be preparing our red-eared slider for brumation by feeding her in her temporary storage...

Hello, folks! I'm happy to report that our red-eared slider, Teresa, has successfully hibernated in a moist hay and topsoil mixture from January 1 to January 22. She has proven to be a hardy specimen, capable of overwintering at temperatures barely above freezing despite decades in artificial...

Hello again folks! So I was thinking about providing our female RES with a pond where she can come out on land to nest. She has no mate and has never mated (to my knowledge) but would probably appreciate a nesting area nonetheless, since she has laid eggs in the past in the water (making a huge...

Hello, folks! As I've been discussing on this forum for a long time, our red-eared slider, Teresa, has grown out of her indoor tank, and I'm looking into setting up an outdoor pond for her to at least spend the summer (probably overwintering her indoors when the temps start to drop). While I...

Hello, folks! As I've mentioned on other posts, we have a female red-eared slider (or "pond" slider) named Teresa. We've had her for over a decade. As is often the case with red-eared sliders, she has grown too big and too challenging to keep inside in an average-sized aquarium tank. I've been...

Hello again! As I've been discussing on this forum, we have a red-eared slider, Teresa, who has been a "house turtle" for years. Her husbandry conditions aren't the best, and keeping her conditions clean constantly is difficult due to this (her housing is too small). I've been discussing...

Hello, folks! As I've mentioned on other threads, we have a female red-eared slider named Teresa, and after her spending years in a rather undersized aquarium, I am interested in the idea of moving her into an outdoor enclosure with a large pond and a land area for basking and digging. My...

Hello, folks! Anyone who has read my former posts would probably be aware of my ultimate intention to eventually upgrade our red-eared slider, Teresa, to an outdoor enclosure pond. Since the enclosure would likely be located near the house, it would most likely be an above-ground pond that...

Hello, folks! Some of you may already be acquainted with our turtle, as I've already introduced her on another thread. We currently own a female red-eared slider named Teresa or "Terry" who's a little over 12 years old. We've had her for that long, and we suspect she could live many more years...

Hello, folks! As you may have known from my previous post, we currently have an adult female red-eared slider turtle named Teresa. She's a medium-sized specimen, small for a female, at about 8 inches of shell length. She's a little over 12 years of age, and at this age I don't suspect she will...