A musk turtle is in the "small turtle family" the painted turtles can grow to 12 inches and have lovely personalitys,but musks only grow to about 4-5 inches and have a shy personality. I'm going to get a musk soon!!
eastern painted
Loggerhead musk turtle was created in 1857.
Razor-backed musk turtle was created in 1855.
a musk turtle or a eastern pained turtle
Wisconsin has 11 kinds of turtles: Blanding's Turtle, Eastern Musk Turtle, False Map Turtle, Northern Map Turtle, Ornate Box Turtle, Painted Turtle, Smooth Softshell, Snapping Turtle, Southern Map Turtle, Spiny Softshell, and Wood Turtle.
"Sun turtle" is not a specific breed of turtle. It is a nickname for a group of turtle species known as Painted Turtles. There are four different types of painted turtles, Eastern Painted, Midland Painted, Southern Painted and Western Painted. Each one has it's own specific dietary requirements. Because sun turtles do not exist and is just a nickname for a group called Painted Turtles, which there are four different species of, you will need to find out exactly which species of painted turtle you own before dietary requirements can be recommended.
Flattened Musk Turtles (Sternotherus depressus) are a rare species of musk turtle living in the branches of the Black Warrior River of Alabama in the US, they have a broad flattened shell that helps them hide in rock crevices.
Just leave them alone they will breed when they want to. Well during their hibernation they will mate and might lay eggs. But you cant make them breed they do it themselves.They can miss out of laying their eggs but they will in autumn
NO. The eastern box turtle is a land turtle and the painted turtle is aquatic. If you had a habitat large enough that could accommodate a land area, a shallow water area and a deep water area it would be ok to house them together. The painted turtle would spend most of its time in the deeper water only coming on to land to bask, and the box turtle will spend the majority of its time on the land. They are not harmful to each other
the painted-turtle
The Common Musk Turtle, Sternotherus odoratus, is known as the stinkpot because of the bad smelling musk glands it uses for defense.