usually you need to convert the temperature of their water to 40 degrees F. then they retract and sink to the bottom of the water. this is normal just FYI
Yes, they do. They bury themselves deep in the mud at the bottom of their favorite pond, and hibernate all winter.
Snapping turtles hibernate
no, stinpots are musk turtles not painted turtles
painted turtles are NOT harmful at all!
yes.
Raccoons, opossums, chipmunks, squirrels, whitetail deer, mountain lions, badgers, bears, coyotes, garter snakes, snapping turtles, painted turtles, muskrats, and many birds and fish and also many more animals.
painted turtles drink out of a little drinking dish. painted turtles like fresh unsalted water
They hibernate in the silt at the bottom of the ocean.
No, not regularly. Painted turtles eat aquatic vegetation, algae, water insects, crustaceans, and fish. Most species of turtles don't go after other turtles unless they are a aggressive turtle. Exceptions for this are Snappers and Musk turtles which are more carnivorous.
they are cool because they are turtles
they ARE NOT painted.
Painted turtles have lived from 15 million years ago to the present.