What’s your favorite brand of pet turtle food?
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Since most pet turtles do not regularly eat home-prepared food (from our turtle poll results – only 22% get home prepared food at least weekly), it can be safely stated that most pet turtles get commercial pet food purchased from a store or online. When it comes to buying food though, there are so many [...]
Survey Results: Do you feed your pet turtles home-made food?
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Based on 113 answers, the following are the survey results for the question “Do you feed your pet turtles home-made food?” This is a review of the answers provided to this pet turtle related question (note: all percentages listed have been rounded up). Of all (100% of) voters the following have said that they give [...]
watching sea turtle hatchlings emerge on the florida coast
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Taking a hint from our article turtle vacations and activities, I took a vacation with my family with the not-so-secret intention to watch sea turtles nest & lay eggs and see little turtle hatchlings emerge and make their run to the ocean. A Florida summer vacation is a great idea. Spend all day with the [...]
John’s Sulcata and cherry head tortoise
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Pet turtle keeper John BK, an animal lover who blogs at Practical Zoophilia shares some photos of his pet turtles. First up is Tank, a sulcata tortoise: Tank is the sulcata’s name because, well, it’s obvious: Tank is a tank, armoured, slow, etc. Next is Neil, a cherry headed tortoise named after Neil Diamond who [...]
turtle summer vacations and activities
Filed under Aquariums / Museums, documentary, fun, leatherback, Links, New England Aquarium, NY Central Park, other, resources, sea turtles, turtles, videos
Summer is the best time for a turtle-lover to get outdoors! Hibernating turtles are all awake, the sun is bright with aquatic turtles basking, beach sand is warm with sea turtles laying eggs and their hatchlings scuttling across the shore to the ocean’s safety and so on and so forth… So what are some of [...]