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Any and ALL Aquatic turtles need a basking light for heat and a UVB light for shell growth and proper health. A UVB light also helps with digestion of food and fish which will help ensure the happy and healthy turtle. If you can not get a UVB light you have up to 2 weeks before they show any signs of health problems. with out a UVB light they can loose their appetite, have shell and growth deformities and ultimately kidney failure which will lead to a very slow and horrible death. they can not survive with out it and having them near a window will NOT be sufficient due to the fact that the glass filters all UV rays.
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What color is the turtles?
I depends
Can you have 2 map turtles and a yellow belly turtle in the same tank?
If it's a huge tank, has an outstanding filter, and has two or three large basking spots each with UVB light (large means that it can fit all three turtles on it).
There is a yellow warning light on your astra what does it mean?
Without know what the warning light say's, all I can tell you in Yellow means caution.
What temperature does you terrapin like its water?
mid 70's up to 78 i keep my turtles yellow bellied sliders and map turtles outside in pond have a water heater in water. Plus when not sunny basking light and strip light for them.
Do red red eared water turtles need light?
No, but their happier with it and without it they don't grow to much.
What kind of bird is Light gray with a yellow beak and a light gray under belly that was found under a bridge?
In what area of what continent? Noth America. In Oklahoma Around Carniegie.
How do you fix the yellow light of death without heat gun?
nice video on the yellow light hope it helps. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zn89z_VUcP0
How sea turtles protect themselves from their predators?
their belly is a light coller so when preditors look up the turtle blends with the sun rays coming into the water. when the preditor looks down they see the turtles dark back and think it is only the sand beneith them.
Do you need to keep a uvb light and heat light on constant for yellow bellied turtles?
no you just need a uv light (keep on for 8 hours aday) and a water heater (keep on all the time on 24 - 28c)
Is the yellow spider light yellow or is it dark yellow?
light yellow
How do you fix yellow light of death without voiding the warranty?
Send it in for warranty repair
What does a yellow caution light on a 2008 ford ranger?
If you can describe what the light is shaped like then we can help answer, but without that information it could be anything.
