Comments on: How Long Should Turtles Bask In The Sun?

By: Pamela

Pamela — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 23:43:38 +0000

I have two new baby red ear turtles had for two days they have eaten nothing and haven’t basket so have taken them in sum too see if that helps any suggestions thanks

By: Christmas

Christmas — Tue, 14 Dec 2021 05:39:26 +0000

I’m new to a 7 year old painted turtle. She wasn’t care for very well. I’ve had some trouble issues with her not eating.!I have offered her every thing but she will only take 2 meal worms and swim away she sniffs everything by basses it by. I have gotten a new basking plate forms and she has been in the basking area most of the last 3 days, her lights go out at 10 and back on at 9. I don’t know what she does in the dark

By: Sam

Sam — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 20:27:44 +0000

I have a 7 year old snapping turtle who I raised. During the summer I put him out in the backyard and he likes to go under the lily plants or under a tree, sometimes he just walks back and forth Along The Back Fence and investigate the area . That the last couple of times especially today he will sit in the grass out in the open he will move out of his son into the Shaded area but this is a change in Behavior and I’m worried there could be something wrong. And bring him in before dark back to his enclosure and he gets to eat a couple hours after that his appetite is good you got lots of energy in his enclosure. I also have a children’s swimming pool in the backyard that I often put him in to begin with and he crawled out of it which is fine because I want it to be his choice.. is it normal that he would lie in the grass sometimes and son the other times he hasn’t moved very much should I be worried?

By: stefan

stefan — Sat, 19 Sep 2020 02:04:13 +0000

Kind of funny… My RES was purchased as a male (I was naive) June 16th 2020.
I had made two basking platforms due to an upper pond (plans) and lower pond (Koi). I placed her on the upper platform and she immediately dove in the water (that’s the last time I’ve had personal contact with her. She reacts as if she was a wild turtle, any view within 30+ feet and she dives into water. Anyway I digress, she will spend hours basking in the sun, even when we went over 100 degrees. She loves cooked chicken breast, and will eat her dried foods. We don’t know how she gets back to the upper pond, only saw her slide the water fall into lower. Gets along with out huge koi in the lower pond and has a hideaway in the ivy way towards the west. Anyway, regarding your dissertation: our RES loves the sun/heat. One of these times I would like her to swim up to us like you see at park lakes. Perhaps she needs a boy friend…