How to Take care of turtles part one
Monday, February 20th, 2012 at
4:34 am
a basic care guide to taking care of turts watch and enjoy and a shout out to some ppl so yeah enjoy questions put them anywere i will recieve em and i’ll get back to u inlike a day or so
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You have a creepy voice.
@aLilBitOEverything thats a first? haha might just be the camera? i doubt my voice is that creepy…
@Dimunic i agree with you. but what’s strange that my terrapin went blind of no reason and it still can live for more than 3 years…
one of the terrapin looks like it cannot get up to the basking place
@kelvin9918 back then they could all get up fine, sometimes they did have to try but over all it was fairly easy, also becayse one of the of my fiters threw water that way
@kelvin9918 Turtles don’t need sight to live. They have other senses. Unlike humans they don’t just rely on one. I also don’t think that myth about how turtles have poor hearing is true. Turtles have perfect hearing. They just don’t react to noises like other animals do. They rely on eye sight for predation, but can rely on their keen sense of smell. Also if the water is slow moving they can easily detect water vibrations. Still just remember what people end up doing.
i have an aquarium full of fishes,do you think that turtles can live there?
were did you get that exact water conditiner it is the best on the market that i can find please tell me i have been looking everywere
@jutubi88 you can but the turtles can eat the fish so you are taking a chance
@Gregorybot any water conditioner should do as long it is for turtles, i use the repti-safe i think, you can get it at petcos, petsmarts, basically anywhere, they also sell water blocks, that just stay in the tank to condition the water for them
@kelvin9918 Chlorine in the water will make a turtle go blind (eventually). At first it’s eyes go puffy and red, then they start to shut and finally they go blind. That can be prevented by putting special tablets in the water.
@HayleyAgneau thanks
@EcBuddy123 i have all that and is it safe to give my res dried shrimp to eat and how much water to have in a tank its a baby red eared slider get back at me plz
@jaquai441 it is as long as it isnt its staple diet and used as a treat
@EcBuddy123 should it be used as a treat and how much water in those little tanks with tress (plastic) in that
@jaquai441 yeah it should be a treat. I dont recommend using those little plastic tanks, even though it is a baby maybe start off with the smallest tank of ten gallons, but really anything from 10 to 55 gallons should be fine for a while, and sliders can swim really well so water level should depend on tank size and stuff
@EcBuddy123 ok and do i make like saltwater and like what do you feed your res and when should i give him the treat
@jaquai441 no salt water, res’s are fresh water turtles! and i give them pellets and live fish they can chase after and eat at their leisure, also shrimp every week or something, youll get the hang of when and when not too dont worry
@EcBuddy123 awesome thanks and one more question whats pole in the head syndrome and what are the symptoms
@jaquai441 pole in the head? the only thing i have heard near that is hole in the head disease, but thats for fish so dont worry about, unless its something i havent heard off. But hole in the head i know is found in oscars mostly and other fish if im correct, my old oscar i was given with the 75 gallon tank had disease, he got better, but eventually died of age. it come about from mal nurishment in them. Sorry for the late reply
@EcBuddy123 u said pole in the head syndrome in the video
@jaquai441 at what time? (like in the video) been a while since i made it
how much watt is your basking light because i have everything you have the heater filter lamps and lights and light clamps im confused because should i have the basking light and the uvb light both aiming at the turtle dock and will a 50 watt basking light do good for half way water on a 20 gal long tank should i have the uvb lamp away from the basking dock? plz reply.
@skrillexfan92 im not sure, but i never use the ones over 75, right now i have a 75 watt i think, but really it depends how far away the light is from the basking spot, you just need to get those temps right, depending what turtle you have they may have preferable basking temps, 85 i think is either minimal or avg. for most species. as for the uvb its better if the turtle gets it directly but its also beneficial if the beam is indirect, uvb can be wherever in the tank as long as it is there
@EcBuddy123 thanks im taking everything back and getting better ones because all of the stuff petsmart recemended doesnt work good