Can a box turtle and a red eared slider turtle mate?
Hello although they are opposite species, I would guess an attempt can be made. a;lthough it would definatly not be successful. I would imagine that it would be funny .
How are red-eared slider turtles able to live in deep water?
Red-eared sliders typically live in lakes and ponds, and seldom venture into deep water, unless they are just crossing it. They tend to cross near the surface, because, of course, they breathe air.However, in the winter, they do dig down into the mud and leaf litter by the lake to brumate. They survive in this physically depressed state by absorbing oxygen through their mucous membranes (their throat and cloaca). They can also use this ability to stay submerged in the water for very long periods of time - there’s one turtle species that gets up to 60% of its oxygen by absorbing it through its cloaca! But red-eared sliders don’t absorb quite so much.
What does the diet of the red eared slider turtle consist of?
I used to own tow red eared turtles and we would feed them pellets of food from Petco.Our turtles really enjoyed blueberries as a treat.
How do turtles mate?
Male turtles store their penis inside their tail. The male turtle would mount the female from the rear and grip her shell with front claws (often elongated) and the penis comes out and it is inserted in the female's tail at the opening (cloaca). After a few months, the females would crawl out on land and find a suitable place to dig a nest and bury the eggs. The eggs will hatch in 60-12 days or more depending on the species and latitude. Turtles always mate in water unless they're tortoises or box turtles.
Can a red-eared slider turtle live with a hermit crab peacefully?
You need a larger tank for your turtle, and then the Hermit crab can be happy in the 10 gal tank the RES was in (disinfect the tank well before you move the crab into it). HERMIT CRABS:setup: http://www.hermit-crabs.com/index.html Your animals have different habitat needs, and cannot live together. The rule of thumb for water turtles is 10 gal. of water per inch of turtle shell length. Your turtle is only 2" now, but it will grow. Right now, it needs a 20 gal. long tank. But soon, it will need much more room. It would be better if you bought a big tank, if you can afford it, to let the turtle grow into the space, otherwise you will eventually have to upgrade from the 20 gal. when the turtles grows larger. Adult RES's can get 10", and will need a 100 gal. tank. Good luck with your pets, and I hope this was helpful.
URGENT!!! My Male Red Eared Slider Turtle is bleeding in the tank! What can I do to help him?
Odd's are high one of them just bit the other. Male turtles, like most males infact are always ready willing and able to mate. And they seem to think that the females are too.. (go figure).. the girls will bite to fend them off if they wont stop. I havent seen an aquatic male bite a females hind feet.. but my box turtles sure do .. Any way.. long and short of it is. If the bleeding isnt sever leave them alone. Also remember a tiny bit of blood goes ALONG way in water. Making a huge cloud out of nothing. If you pull them out and discover a pool of blood under one then you have your culprit and you need to look for the source and try to put preasure on it, which will stop it. You dont have to keep them out of water for weeks. they heal fine in the water and unless your tank is filthy there will be no problems. I've a Norther red belly here who lost a entire foot and healed quite well. turtles are good healers though slow, generally even the most sever wounds to shell and body can be healed if they have warmth, food and safety to do it in. the Red belly isnt the only gimp in the house now. I got a box turtle in oct because kids were using her as a soccer ball and fractured her shell.. then animal control brought me another box that was hit by a car.. my land lord just rolls his eyes but he says they can stay because he can't hear them, smell them and they arnt craping in the yard..
Wil a mississippi map turtle breed with a red ear slider?
From what I've read/heard, Sliders (who are of the Trachemys genus) can cross breed with Pseudemys and Chrysemys, but I've never heard of them hybridising with Graptemys (which is what your Mississippi map turtle is!) so I would assume not, no... Edit - shows what I know, LOL! A quick google of red eared slider hybrids brings up this as one of the first results (same genus as the Mississippi maps): http://www.austinsturtlepage.com/world_o... Edit again: Here you go! http://www.austinsturtlepage.com/world_o... By the way - you do realise that deliberately creating turtle and tortoise hybrids is not generally encouraged as any offspring of these matings are usually weaker than non-hybrids...? Thankfully nature usually takes charged and the eggs are more often than not infertile...
How deep does a red eared slider dig down when it hibernated?
They hibernate at the bottom of the water source they live in. They may just sit on the bottom or they may bury themselves slightly in the mud at the bottom. They do not come onto land and bury themselves for hibernation.
My One red eared slider is acting very odd and somewhat violent to his tank buddy.?
Cpeckart is mostly right. I'm surprised that with such credentials would make such a broad statement without clarifying...many species of turtles do not show the sex the way he described. It was once believed this was a way to tell a box turtles sex...then when they began to be kept in breeding colonies, breeders discovered that they had "males" with concave plastrons building nests and laying eggs. While it is still mostly true for box turtles, and not at all for some species, for Red eared sliders it is sort of true...if you have a female and male side by side a male might look slightly more concave than than a female...if it's big enough, and has grown fairly normally. But it would be difficult to accurately sex them that way even if you were a trained biologist. Vets even sex them inaccurately often. The behavior you describe is often done as a courtship ritual but since red eared sliders are quite territorial, this could be typical dominance and may have nothing to do with what sexes they are. The point is you can't let one injure the other so separating them is necessary. It may just mean it's time to get a much bigger tank. You may want to try it and then they might be able to be together again someday.