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Painted turtles usually have horizontal stripes running down their neck. Snapping turtles are drab in color. The maximum size of a Painted turtle is 10 inches. The maximum size for a snapper is between 20 and 30 inches. Snapping turtles cannot withdraw their heads, whereas Painted turtles can close up almost completely.
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∙ 8y agoSnapping turtle eggs are round like ping-pong balls, while Painted Turtle eggs are long ovals.
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How do you tell when a baby snapping turtle is dying?
You can tell when a baby snapping turtle is dieing when it does not move at all for five minutes and a liquid poors slowly out of its mouth.
How do you tell the difference between a baby common snapping turtle and a baby alligator snapping turtle?
Aligator snapping turtles and regular snapping turtles can be told apart by the tail on the aligator snapping turtle, which is longer with jagged spines. Its tail resembles an aligators thus the name aligator snapping turtle. It also has a more defined shell when its young so it will have larger looking spines than a regular snapping turtle. Hope this helps. Common snapping turtles have a pinkish mouth and alligater snapping turtles have brownish mouth
How do you tell if a boxturtle had some eggs?
how do you tell if a box turtle laid eggs
How do you tell a baby girl from a baby boy snapping turtle?
The difference between a female snapping turtle and a male snapping turtle is the difference in their tales. Each snapping turtle has a small cirlce looking shape on theie tale. If it is a female snapping turtle, it's circle will be closer to the shell (or the butt) an if it is a male snapping turtle, the circle will not neccesarily be at the end of the tail, but it is certainly not near the shell (or butt). With most snapping turtles, it should be obvious, but with some, it is hard to tell, especially if their newborns (a week old or younger).
What is the pattern of a baby boy snapping turtle?
y is it so hard to tell turtles apart?
How can you tell what type of turtle you have?
If it has a long head it's a guru and if it smells like beef it's a snapping
Alligator snapping turtle how do you tell male from female?
Male alligator snappers have thicker and longer tails.
How do you tell if a turtle is a snaping turtle?
Here's a description of a snapping turtle: large head, long thick neck and back of shell has sawtooth edge. The height of the head end is a lot bigger than the tail end. There is a good picture on the "Nova Scotia Turtles" page of the Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History website. Scroll to the bottom of the Museum website and click Nova Scotia Nature; scroll to the bottom and click on Nova Scotia Turtles, Click on "fresh water turtles" and scroll down to Snapping turtle.
How can you tell when female turtle is having eggs?
You can tell if it's having eggs by if it berring itself in the sand or dirt
How can you tell how old a painted turtle is?
the awnser is to look how big its spieces is and see how big it is.
How do you tell if a 4 year old painted turtle is a boy of a girl?
flip it over.
How long does it take a red slider to lay their eggs?
It depends if its a red eared slider or a paint turtle or a snapping turtle (witch i doubt you have) im just gonna tell you all of the ones i listed red eared slider if its the first time first time 2 to 20 for a paint turtle 2 to 20 eggs and a snapping turtle 1 to ten so i hoped i helped
