Care of Turtles

a snapping turtle is a very agile animal, and on an empty stomach it can move up to 4 mph. on a hot day, however, the snapping turtle is more slow and sluggish, and will often move at a pace of about 2-3 mph. snapping turtles also have a standard mating call, and it can be heard up to five miles away! it sounds very much like two cats mating, which is a high, piercing screech.

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they only need food and place where they can sometimes lie over like a flat rock or something but not thorny and the water level is suppose to be just above their shell and always clean their mess every 4 days

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You can also buy turtles online at certain reputable sites, such as turtlesale.com. It might be scary, but they will send you a baby turtle to you first class in a well-constructed box designed for moisture and air circulation. Your turtle might be a little shocked the first day, but will be full of spunk before you know it.

When you pull it out of the water and bother it.....

reptiles are well known for not sleeping for long periods of time. but it comes to a time during the winter when the sun don't shine that turtles lizards and snakes do hibernate for few months.

Like any babies, they need their rest as much as possible. In fact, even adult turtles don't do much more than sleep, eat, and drink, land turtles any way, i don't have much experience with the habits of water turtles

Sea turtles are not just the longest-living turtles, but the longest-living animals on earth. See the Related Link below.

1. Turtles are reptiles that lay eggs.
2. Turtles do not have gills and breathe air (common confusion)
3. Turtles have been around for 200 million years, a thousand times longer than modern humans
4. Turtles live on every continent except Antarctica.
5. A turtle shell is actually 60 different bones merged together
6. Turtles have excellent vision and hearing
7. Many species of turtle can live over a hundred years including the American Box turtle
8. Adult turtles can range from 4 inches to over 1500 pounds
9. Turtles can live in almost any climate
10. Most turtles have five toes, while the American Box Turtle has four and some others have only three.

I don't think there is such a thing as a yellow eared slider. Try looking up yellow bellied sliders. That's probably what you're looking for.

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Fallowing are the life Span of some different types of turtle:

Box Turtle 123 yrs

Snapping Turtle 57 yrs

Green sea Turtle 80 yrs

If you are going to get a turtle make sure you have time and love for it and proper care.

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First of all, Red Eared Sliders (RES) are majorly overpopulated, and are an invasive species in a lot of areas. So unless you plan on keeping all babies yourself, or putting some effort into finding responsible homes for the babies, don't bother trying to hatch the eggs.

If the eggs were laid underwater and they weren't taken out right away, they are dead, and you might as well just dispose of them. Also if the Female turtle hasn't been in contact with a male turtle in more than 6 months, the egg wont be fertile. Females can lay eggs without ever mating.

If the female has been in contact with a male in the last 6 months, and the eggs are either laid on land or caught within 10 minutes of being laid in the water here's how to incubate them.

1. DO NOT ROTATE EGGS! If the eggs are rotated it kills the developing embryo. Safest thing to do is to mark to top of any eggs you find with a china marker or pencil BEFORE you move them. Once that is done you can handle them carefully.

2. Collect eggs one at a time and place them in a clean, soap free dish (old tupperware, deli containers, etc.) that has been filled with about 2 inches of moist, sterile substrate. Usually vermiculite is suggested, but perlite, paper towel, and clean soil can also be used. It can be helpful to make small dents in the substrate, roughly the width and half the length of your thumb to set the eggs in. Once all eggs are collected just set the lid on top of the container. Don't seal it as air needs to circulate.

3. In a larger waterproof container (an aquarium, or cooler works well) add about 3 inches of water. Use an aquarium heater to keep the water temperature at 86ºF. Monitor the temperature of the water using a floating aquarium thermometer. You can either float the egg container in the water if it's stable, or set it on something so that about 1" of the container is under water.

4. Use another thermometer and a hygrometer (humidity gauge) inside the egg container. Humidity should be around 80-85%, and the temperature should be between 82-86ºF. More males will develop at lower temperatures, more females at higher temperatures. If eggs are fertile they should hatch anywhere from 60-90 days.

5. Once eggs start hatching DO NOT TOUCH THEM! Baby turtles will open their shells before their yolk sack is fully absorbed. It's safer for them if you wait til they are fully out of their egg on their own before you try handling them.

6.Once their yolk sack is fully absorbed, and their "belly button" has closed you can move them to a clean enclosure with about 2 inches of water and a very easy to access basking spot. Giving them some plastic leaves to hind under also makes them more comfortable. Their basking spot should be at 90ºF, and they need a UVB light as well. Water doesn't need to be heated.

7. Feed baby turtles in a separate container. Offer them a variety of foods including, tropical fish flakes and pellets, baby turtle pellets, frozen fish foods (blood worms, brine shrimp, etc.) and small amounts of finely shredded vegetables such as dandelion leaves, green peas, kale, and collard. Give them an hour or more to eat their fill.

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I have eaten wild snapping turtles on many occasions and must disagree with the answer above. While cleaning turtles from a creek in rural Sumner County, Tennessee I have found both persimmon and pawpaw seeds in their stomach contents. This would seem to me to be a positive indication that, at least on occasion, snapping turtles do indeed eat fruit.

Turtles bite when they feel threatened, or if they mistake something for something edible (i.e: fish). They will not let go easily if you try to pry them off. It's not very hard to provoke a turtle, maybe if you poke it repeatedly on it's mouth.

There are 4 species and 11 subspecies.

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A box turtle will pee just the same as he poops. Usually you won't notice it, but the pee will come out the same end.

I've been trying to figure out if there's another name for sun turtles, since I don't recognize that name. Without knowing for sure what kind of turtles you have, I don't want to give you specific advice about feeding and housing them. For now, it sounds like you've done a good job of making a home for them. Here are some ideas for finding out more about your turtles: I'd suggest you visit a couple of general turtle web sites to determine which kind of turtles your dad found, and then look at the specifics for whichever looks right. This site shows pictures of different turtles so you can determine which species found your family: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/3550/list.html This site is mainly used by people who keep turtles and tortoises as pets. You can learn more about feeding turtles and learn how other folks set up their tanks (it sounds like your half wet/half dry set-up is a good start-that may be all you need.) http://www.kingsnake.com/forum/turtle This site lists all kinds of books on turtles and tortoises, if you'd like to read more: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Valley/5314/books.html In general, most turtles are omnivores, meaning that they eat many kinds of plants and animals found in their habitat. I have a western Box turtle, and she loves to eat crickets and snails when it rains (she lives in an enclosure in my mom and dad's backyard now). Her regular food is wet mushy Purina cat chow. Since she's not a water turtle, I hesitate to recommend you feed yours the same thing. Check the web sites I mentioned before trying the cat food trick. Something interesting about painted turtles-younger painteds are carnivorous, meaning they just eat insects, snails, slugs, small fish, etc. As they get older, they begin adding more plants to their diet. Tina HI

There favorite foods are snails, cray fish, tadpols, fish, crab, worms, fly's, water bugs, algae, meal worms, frogs, and lobster. That's some of the stuff i feed my soft shell turtle and my panted turtles, but i have fresh water turtles cuzz ilive in OHIO so don't eat soft shell turtles cuzz they are cool. I have a little baby one that awesome.........................