A box turtle is a land dweller and a red eared slider is mostly aquatic. Not the best example. However, I think the same rule would apply.I'm not sure where to put this thread but since mixing species should be avoided for tortoises, what about turtles? For example a box turtle with a RES or something... Thanks
Thanks, just wondering.A box turtle is a land dweller and a red eared slider is mostly aquatic. Not the best example. However, I think the same rule would apply.
maybe if they were turtles that live side by side in the wild like a painted turtle and a river cooter. I'm just not sure.
There is a pond on my property up north and a lot of different species live together. I think that given enough room, it would work out.
I mix turtle species, but I only keep N American turtles all from the same type temperate climate area. In the wild, turtles mix all the time and you can see aggregates of many different types of turtles basking together especially in the Southeast where there are so many different species in the same geographic area. I have no problem mixing the basking turtles - map, painted, cooter, slider, western pond. Mud and musk would do fine, but musk like to nip tails of the others, so I limit that in a smaller environment. My 10,000 gal pond area is a secure 2000 sq ft with almost 1/2 land, and two distinct pond areas - one shallower. So I have different habitat areas. The shallower pond designed specifically around what spotted turtles like as I maintain a large colony of those. So the entire pond area has 10 different species of N American turtles. They have all done great together - the oldest one I got as a hatchling in 1984 - now a 17" Suwanee Cooter. Also keep fish with them. Koi, High Fin Shark, Minnow, Bluegill, Guppies. Actually a pretty stable ecosystem.