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Water Turtles / What Do Turtles Eat — No Comments
8
Sep 11

4 Things To Avoid While Feeding Your Water Turtles

In my last post I already share with you some tips about the water turtles nutritions, so by now you should already know what do turtles eat - water plants, small fishes, chopped vegetables, cricket, etc .

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Hi honey, what's for dinner?

Photo by Kevin Timothy

 

Today I’m going to tell you guys 4 things that you should avoid while feeding your turtles:

  1. Avoid feeding your water turtles french fries or any other deep fried food like donuts, onion rings, etc. Lets face it even though it taste really good deep fried food is not good for most animals (including humans).
  2. No sugary foods: No lollipops, no cotton candy, no chocolate bars or any other type of candy or gums. this type of sticky food pose a real choking hazard.


  3. Do not give your water turtles any milk and other dairy products. Reptiles can not digest milk because they don’t have the special enzymes that requiring for breaking down the lactose.
  4. Avoid sharing food with your water turtles (or any other reptiles), most reptiles may carry salmonella bacteria. This bacteria doesn’t cause illness for the water turtles but may cause some serious illness for us. So what ever you do never ever share food with your water turtles. You should also avoid kissing them (even tough they are really cute icon smile 4 Things To Avoid While Feeding Your Water Turtles , don’t allow your turtles to wander around the kitchen area and after holding your turtles wash your hands with soap and water.

Carefully and conscientiously you should avoid these 4 errors, and both you and your turtles should be happy and more importent healthy.

if you are still confused and wondering what do turtles eat? check out my previous blog post.

Take good care of your pets and make sure you enjoy it icon smile 4 Things To Avoid While Feeding Your Water Turtles I hope you found this post useful and if you have your own tips or comment please share them with us.

 

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Red Eared Slider Turtles / Types of Turtles / Water Turtles — No Comments
21
Jul 11

Everything on The Red Eared Slider Turtles

Here are some facts about the Red Eared Slider Turtles:

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Photo from Chris Yarzab

● Red eared slider turtles natural habitat is in the southern USA, but now you can find them almost everywhere because people released their unwanted turtles pets into the wild (releasing pet into the wild is wrong and can cause spread of diseases and harm the native plants and the habitat, not to mention that some domesticated pet simply lost their ability to feed themselves and they will starve).

● Turtles are a reptiles and just like any other reptiles they are cold-blooded and they need to relay on external heat source, like the sun or a special UVB lighting, to keep them warm.

●  Trachemys scripta elegans is their official scientific name.

● Red eared turtles feeds on plants, small animals and insects. They are omnivores.

● The common red eared sliders is green color with yellow stripes.

● They got their name from the red mark around their ears and their ability to slide.

● As they getting older some of the male become darker and their stripes become fade and some of them may even lose their identifying marked their red patch.

● Females are usually larger than the males

● The male have longer front claws and his tail is also longer and thicker than the female.

● Their mating season is between March and june and the egg laying is between May to July.

● It’s taken an egg 60 to 90 days to hatch. eggs that where laid at the end of the season may spend the winter in the nest and hatch only by spring.

● Each turtles is hatching with the help of his egg-tooth, that will fall out an hour after and never grow back.

● When hatching from the egg the average red ear slider will be 1 inch and he can grow up to 12 inches

●  If sun is not available and the temperature drops they will go into hibernation.

● FDA regulation band the sale of turtles eggs and turtles with carapace length of less than 4 inch.

● If you chose to have red ear slider turtles as your pet, you will need to provide him aquarium with clean water where they can swim and a basking area that will offer sun light or other UVB lamp.

● Red eared slider turtles can live more than 70 years.

I’m hoping you find this info useful! and for even more info please check out this video:

Share with us your tips and knowledge about the  Red Eared Slider Turtles.

 

 

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