Indoor Turtles Should be Kept Indoors
Proper care for your indoor pet turtle requires a commitment to keeping your turtle indoors. Too often people want to remove their turtle to “let it roam” outside. Turtles are very sensitive to sudden temperature changes and such a change can be detrimental to their health. Furthermore, taking the turtle [...]
Mistake #1 – Taking Your Indoor Turtle Outdoors – Or Vice Versa
People can choose to either keep their turtle indoors or outdoors, but once the decision is made it should be adhered to. Turtles are cold-blooded reptiles. As such, they are very sensitive to sudden changes in their environment. Taking a turtle from a warm indoor [...]
Caring for your turtle the right way is important to help it live a long and healthy life. Below are some of the basics of pet turtle care.
What to Feed Your Turtle
Standard pet turtle are naturally herbivores, living on a diet of vegetables such as lettuce, cabbage, carrots or leafy vegetables. They also eat fruits [...]
Outdoor Means Outdoor
When you choose to make your pet turtle an outdoor turtle you need to commit to it wholeheartedly. Moving a turtle from indoors to outdoors constantly can have a negative effect on your pet. Turtle are very sensitive to sudden changes in their environment and constantly changing their temperature can make them unhealthy [...]
What kind of foods do they eat?
What do they eat? Well what kind do you have? Let’s assume you have a standard pet turtle such as a red-eared slider or a box turtle. These types are mainly herbivorous in the wild and can remain healthy living of a diet of vegetables such as carrots, lettuce [...]
Equipment and Tools
When building an outdoor red eared slider pond, it is important to have the right tools before you get started. Building a simple pond shouldn’t take more than a few hours. To build an in-ground pond, you’ll need a shovel, a liner (for example a small plastic swimming pool or other plastic container), [...]
Feeding Your Red Eared Slider
Most pet turtles, red eared sliders included, are mainly herbivorous in the wild and can survive on vegetables such as carrots, lettuce or cabbage or fruits such as berries. Some owners also introduce earthworms or live insects such as crickets, beetles or spiders. You can also buy commercial turtle food to [...]
What Your Turtle Needs In Its Tank
When putting together your red eared slider tank, you should know the proper equipment that is required. Its tank, or aquarium, should be anywhere from 20 to 50 gallons to start, depending upon its size and needs. As a rule of thumb, it’s actually best to have about ten [...]
Baby Red Eared Sliders Are Equipped For Survival
Baby red eared sliders are born with most of the tools necessary for their survival. Most turtles lay their eggs and then abandon the nest, leaving the newly hatched turtles to fend for themselves. As such, millions of years of evolution have equipped your baby turtle to survive. [...]
A lot of families with small children do want to keep turtles as pets and if the parents do not know how to take of them, they should quickly learn how.
Caring for them does not have to be a difficult chore. There are turtles guide out there, which you can follow that will ease in [...]
We first have to understand that a fish tank and a turtle tank are two different things. Fish needs only water to survive. This is why fish tanks are completely inundated with water. On the other hand, the turtles are amphibians. They need land as well as water. It is imperative to provide them with [...]
Tips on how to care for your pet turtle
Some people are fond to watch the turtles especially when they swim. However, without proper pet turtle care your turtle may have lesser lifespan because of health-related problems. But by these turtle care guide, you may know some of the basic ways on how care for your [...]
We first have to understand that a fish tank and a turtle tank are two different things. Fish needs only water to survive. This is why fish tanks are completely inundated with water. On the other hand, the turtles are amphibians. They need land as well as water. It is imperative to provide them with [...]
If you are interested in keeping a pet turtle in your home, there are a lot of different types to choose from, including those who can live in dry habitats and those that require wet habitats. Whichever kind of pet turtle you choose, you should know what caring for it involves and what it takes [...]
Terrapins may be simple but looking after the pet terrapin is no doubt expensive as well as time consuming. Hence, you should proceed with the plan of keeping a pet terrapin, only if you think you can spend enough time, energy, and money for it. Remember they have a long life span.
So, if you get [...]
You may have heard of terrapins, but you may not be exactly sure of what they are and how they differ from your basic pet turtles. Terrapins are a kind of aquatic turtle that live in brackish or fresh water.
They typically have smaller and lighter shells than most land based turtles do and, similar to [...]
Maryland terrapins, also known as diamondback terrapins, are the only group of turtles which are found in the brackish water of the Maryland estuaries and Chesapeake Bay.
Maryland terrapins are considered as the gourmet delicacy for a long time and hence a huge number of terrapins were being killed every year to satisfy the greedy guts [...]
Terrapins, the small cute reptiles, are considered as a soft and timid creature. In case you are thinking of buying one to keep as a pet, then a sound knowledge about it should be considered prior to your purchase. These include their varieties, habit and habitat, pattern of food intake, mating rituals, hibernating process, common [...]
I am proud to be a turtle.
We were having a serious meeting this morning because it was the question of our survival and we don’t know what is stored there for us tomorrow! We, the seven species of sea turtles, are already on the brink of extinction and hence declared as endangered species.
The seven different [...]
Hi! Good Morning! I am Deirochelys reticularia, nick name – Chicken turtle, because of my long, striped, neck. I am a freshwater turtle and belong to a reputed family Emydidae. I inhabit the calm and quiet weedy freshwater ponds, swamps or marshes.
Look at the fine grooves and yellow network on the surface of my brown [...]
1. What are European Pond Terrapins?
The strong and gorgeous turtles called ‘European pond terrapins’ Emys orbicularis (Linnaeus, 1758), are found in central and southern Europe, (from France and the Iberian Peninsula in the west and Germany to Netherlands in the north), North Africa and West Asia and some places of Australia. It prefers to live [...]
Alligator Snapping Turtle
Taxonomic Classification of Alligator Snapping Turtle Macrochelys temminckii (Troost, 1835):
Kingdom- Animalia
Phylum- Chordata
Class- Reptilia
Order- Testudines
Family- Chelydridae
Genus- Macrochelys
Species- M. temminckii
Habitat:
Lives in river, lakes, streams or other freshwater bodies
Largest freshwater turtle in North America
Also found in Southern US, Gulf of Mexico and Mississippi river
Can stay under water for three hours and rarely bask in the sun
Females [...]
“How dangerous can a terrapin bite be”? Someone, bitten by an aggressive terrapin only a couple of days back, asked me. I comforted him by saying, “Don’t worry; just take medicines and proper care.”
Small juvenile terrapins look cute but once they grow older, their appearance starts taking a prehistoric look, enough to scare off most [...]
Turtles inhabit saline, brackish or fresh water. Marine turtles are on this earth for more than 100 million years.
Marine turtles possess hard beak-like mouth to tear and mash food, a large carapace (upper shell), 2 pairs of strong flippers to swim inside the deep sea/ocean and lungs to breath air.
Due to a number of human [...]
Hi, I am a member of the most handsome turtles in the world, the Eastern Painted Turtles. Come and have a close look at me and you will realize why I am boasting. Our appearance resembles a beautiful hand painted canvas, the reason behind our naming as ‘Painted Turtle’.
Scientifically we are Testudines (Order) under the [...]
There are many ways to give your pet turtle care it deserves. Turtles can be irresistibly cute, and it is a known fact that children find their antics fascinating to watch. The turtles most commonly kept as pets-such as Red-eared Sliders or Painted Turtles-can be comfortably housed in a 40-gallon tank, well-suited to a home [...]
Information on Turtles are crucial in understanding them as pets. Turtles are reptiles, and more specifically, they belong to the order called Testudines as well as to the super-order Chelonia. This is why turtle enthusiasts often affectionately refer to their pets as Chelonians. Turtles are also commonly called terrapins in Great Britain, although this does [...]
African Tortoise is native from countries such as Senegal, Mali, Niger, Chad, Sudan and Ethiopia. They are usually found in Sahara desert. African or Sulcatas Tortoise has brownish or yellowish, broad and flattened carapace. As they mature, the growth rings found on their scutes are deeply marked. Old males grow reverted marginal scales in the [...]
Turtles have different needs according to the type of species they belong to. Some are aquatics and some are land turtle. But they are all can have diseases when turtles care is not properly provided and given by their keepers. Remember that they are from the wild that is why sudden changes from their original [...]
You are now about to buy your first owned tortoise and bring it home with you. But first you must get yourself familiar with all the basic guidelines in choosing a healthy specimen. This article will make you understand all the important factors about your turtle or tortoise health and readers will find this article [...]
There are two classifications of pond turtles in the world. The first one is the Clemmys. Clemmys are one of the types of pond turtles with only one North American species.
Here are some of the Clemmys pond turtle:
1. Bog Turtle is a Northern American native turtle. It is one of the smallest cold blooded animals [...]
These tortoises are Africa natives, mainly in the area of Sahara; that is why when you are adopting one, you must provide them a place with similar surroundings and temperature. When your pet is a hatchling, they can stay for a long time inside the tank indoors, 10 gallons is the minimum size, 20 gallons [...]
Understanding your turtle or tortoise is one of the main keys you should never forget for them to be able to have a healthier and long life. Turtles and tortoises are creatures made to swim and to eat a lot that is why you must be a keen observer when they are starting not to [...]
When caring for your turtle or tortoise, you must be familiar with all the right kinds of food and treats you should feed them and just about the right amount of it. Some turtles and tortoise needs a special kind of diet plan. When caring for your turtle or tortoise makes sure that you provide [...]
There are two classifications of pond turtles in the world. The first subspecies of pond turtles is the Emydidae. The Emydidae species are the biggest family of turtles. It has 40 species and 12 genera. Their family members are widely distributed in North America, Northern South America and Europe. They are usually freshwater turtles.
Here are [...]
Under the CITES law, this tortoise is legal to own thus in some countries, registration is still needed. This Greek tortoise are native to Yugoslavia, Ukraine, Turkey, Tunisia, Syria, Spain, Russia, Libya, Morocco, Moldova, Lebanon, Jordan, Iran, Italy, Greece, France, Egypt, Cyprus, Bulgaria, Algeria and Albania. The color of Greek tortoise is typically brown to [...]
Your new pet turtle or tortoise can bring so much fun to you and to your family. They will live a long, long life with you and most probably will even outlive you when given the right proper care. In this article, understanding your turtle or tortoise, readers will find this instructive because of the [...]