Red Eared Slider Turtle

Yes, as long as they can fit in their mouth.

Make sure your turtle is in good health and knows how to catch its own food. Put a few feeder fish in its tank and make sure it knows how to catch them. Mostly your turtle will eat vegetation, but being able to catch its own food is a good skill to have. Most importantly, make sure you can legally release your turtle on the property. If its private property, check with the owner. If its a state park, check with the ranger. You don't want to add one more problem to a lake already overrun with unwanted turtles. Good luck. Make sure your turtle is in good health and knows how to catch its own food. Put a few feeder fish in its tank and make sure it knows how to catch them. Mostly your turtle will eat vegetation, but being able to catch its own food is a good skill to have. Most importantly, make sure you can legally release your turtle on the property. If its private property, check with the owner. If its a state park, check with the ranger. You don't want to add one more problem to a lake already overrun with unwanted turtles. Good luck.

Yes, but only as a treat. Turtles need a varied diet, and Red Eared Sliders move to a more plant based diet as they grow. Giving them too much protein can cause odd shell growth, and eventual deformation.

In the wild, they are opportunistic eaters so it would greatly vary. Some days he can eat up to 8 very small meals, other days he won't eat at all.
In captivity it is best to feed him 5 minutes worth of pellets once a day, or you can break it up to 2-3 minutes worth of food twice a day. He will stop when he's satisfied, so don't worry about him eating to the point where it's harmful, but what ever he doesn't eat will make the tank dirty really fast. They love feeder fish, worms and shrimp but use sparingly because it clogs up the filters much faster and the excrement is MUCH smellier. It is worth it though to occasionally give him live food.


Enjoy your pet.

As long as the fish is inspected and found to be free of disease, yes. If you can get the python to eat it!

sleeping for the red ear slider is natural or it just shows that their growing. if your weather is changing then they are probably hibernating

yeah, its completely normal, they do it just to get any bacteria, or parasites that might be on it off. they will also shed the top layer of their shell for the same reason, and also to help grow.

Hatchlings are around 1 inch. After one year they are typically 2 to 3 inches. Somewhere around 3 to 5 years old, females are about 5 inches and sexually mature. Males are sexually mature at 4 inches which they reach at 2 to 4 years old. Then their growth slows down considerably, females generally growing 10 to 12 inches and males generally growing 7 to 9 inches.

Red Eared sliders grow at different rates depending on their health and the quality and availability of food. Pet turtles tend to grow faster than wild turtles.

You breed a male and female Red Eared slider. Albino's are not different species of turtles, they are just a different version of that specie, but I am breeding turtles as well and you can also have an albino map turtle and so on and on...

Of course you can! :) They are gentle turtles is raised properly, and mine love to be taken from their tank and petted on the head (yeah, their head!) or rubbed on their shell. It's calming for them, and good bonding time. Sometimes they may snap at you, but I've been bitten before (when his mouth was directed at a cucumber slice but my finger got in the way) and it isn't painful, so don't be scared of a turtle biting you. But you must remember to ALWAYS scrub your hands after handling your red eared slider or anything it touches because they carry diseases and you must stay clean. If you just wash your hands after VERY well, then you can hold them whenever you like. :)

A Painted Turtle can only "procreate" (have young) with another Painted Turtle but they have been known to "mate" (have sex) with Red Eared Sliders and Yellow Belly Sliders. They probably wouldn't try to mate with any other kind of turtle, other than a similar species of water turtle like maybe a Map Turtle. For instance, a painted Turtle probably would not try to mate with a Soft Shell Turtle or a Snapping Turtle (or any land turtle like a Box Turtle) because they would not recognize it as a possible mate. When a Painted Turtle tries to mate with a Slider, it is because its instincts are telling it that based on size, shape, and mating displays and behaviors, etc., it is another Painted Turtle. Interestingly, Red Eared Sliders and Yellow Bellied Sliders rages currently overlap and where they do there is a lot of unsuccessful mating going on between the two species but they cannot procreate. That is part of the "definition" of a separate species.

i usually feed my turtles fresh fruits and veggies once a week

They're ok once in a while, but they're high in oxalic acid (along with kale and spinach), which inhibits calcium usage, so don't offer them too often.

Red-eared sliders can eat bananas occasionally as a treat, but they should not make up a significant portion of their diet. Bananas are high in natural sugars and carbohydrates, which can lead to obesity and other health issues if over-consumed. It's important to provide a balanced diet for red-eared sliders that includes a variety of leafy greens, vegetables, and protein sources such as insects or commercial turtle pellets.

Yes, as long as it is large enough to accommodate the turtles. While a hatchling can live in a 10 gallon aquarium, it will soon need a 100 gallon aquarium as these turtles get up to 12" in shell length.

Yes, red eared sliders and yellow bellied sliders are both subspecies of "pond slider", in the wild where their range overlaps they mate quite often producing what are called "intergrades". The particular intergrade between a yellow bellied slider and a red eared slider often has features of both, large yellow markings on the head with a red corner.

they can live anywhere. they are reptiles so they live in ponds, slow moving waters. examples on where they live is:

Canada

Mexico

USA

japan

Denmark

new Jersey

Coney island

parchester

Clinton ave.

Bronx

turtles need to bask in sunlight but if it's too strong, it will run away, if you have the right temperature, your turtle will stay under the sun for a long time. there is no limit to basking, just watch until your turtle walks away from it

When your red eared slider hisses at you, it is basically the same as when a cat hisses. They either want you to stop handling them, go away, or get out of their face. My larger and grumpier red eared slider hisses all the time, so don't take it personally if they hiss at you and think they hate you. They've just had enough. But I laugh at mine, since all you have to do sometimes is walk by him and hear a soft "ssssssss!!!" :)

You need to go to a pet store for aquatic animals and buy a light that works like the sun's rays. Red Sliders love to sun bathe, so if you keep them in a tank inside, you need to buy a light like that. Trust me, I have had 2 red sliders for the past 4 years :)

"Reptomin Floating Food Sticks" are a good choice. They include the vitamins RES turtles need to be healthy. Supplement that staple with "Turtle Bites" which are made of fruits and vegetables.

As treats, these turtles can be given large amounts of red leaf lettuce. They may be given small amounts of strawberries, melon, cooked meat and most vegetables.

From their tank, they will eat anacharis (water plant) and goldfish, guppies, tadpoles and ghost shrimp.

You can feed your baby slider one of the foods designed specifically for aquatic turtles and they will also need vitamins to help their immune system. they will need to be high in vitamin A and calcium to help prevent disease. they also enjoy eating earthworms, meal worms, aquatic snails (for slightly larger sliders) and sweet water shrimp, but the baby's mouth is not big enough to eat them whole so you will have to chop them up into little peices so that they can eat it. hope I answered your question.

P.S. If the turtle won't eat after about a week get some beef blood and mix it with the vitamins and put in a dropper and put the drops in its or on its mouth so it can get some nourishment. they will also eat fruits and veggies

Yes, you can feed an adult red-eared slider once a week (providing it is a large feeding). I've been feeding my red-eared slider once a week (every Sunday night) for a year or two now.

However, recently I've decided to start feeding her two smaller feedings each week. She seems to be ravenously hungry at each feeding, and I suspect that by Friday or Saturday, she is uncomfortable and unhappy because she's just so hungry.

So, yes, you can feed a red-eared slider once a week, but if they seem too hungry at each feeding, then you should probably switch to twice a week.

Also, I wouldn't feed a juvenile turtle, and especially a hatchling, once a week. At that point they are supposed to be growing, so I think they really need to be fed at least two or three times a week.