my turtle's name is Lemon. i gave her some tiny dried shrimp as a treat. i like turtles.
say, TOA, any turtle-rearing (loool) words of wisdom?
Our turtle's name is Buster. He lives in a giant aquarium with a float raft so he can dry off. It's good to get them out of the water (we put him in a dry plastic tub for a few days. Steve puts an iodine treatment on Buster's shell...
A reptile/sun lap is a must have. You probably don't need it as much as we do here, but they're cold blooded -- we don't let either of our turtles hibernate, because it just doesn't get cold enough here for them to do it properly....
Good to have a filtering system in the aquarium too.
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Buster (and most sliders) really like those little feeder goldfish from the pet store. Buster herds his like cattle -- he'll eat all but one in the first week usually, then he keeps one for months... until it grows almost as big as he is. Then at some undetermined point he decides to eat his friend. It's quite shocking, as it usually involves Buster biting the fish's tail until it can't swim and then he turns around and eats its face off.
We have a hard plastic kiddie pool we put out in the backyard in the summer for both turtles (Eeyore is our box turtle who loves to swim). We have a wire cover for it to keep them safe, and they'll spend hours out on sunny days paddling around in there, eating strawberries.
If you have snails in your garden (and there's no chemicals being used), some turtles really like to eat live snails (Buster turns his nose up at them, but Eeyore gets this ravenous dinosaur glint in her eye when I bring her snails).
They shed layers of shell about once a year, which is pretty amazing.
Depending how old Lemon is, and if she's in good health, some sliders can live up to 50 years... so name a guardian for her in your will.
