Aquatic turtles play Here’s a few short clips I had made of my wife playing with our pet red ear slider (RES) turtles, Rex and…
If you have pet turtles, there’s a pretty good chance you’ve wondered yourself “how fast do pet turtles grow?” Turtle Growth Rate Factors The answer,…
Reader Rew shares pictures of his pet turtles, George and Jorge, in their tanks. George is a 3 year old red ear slider turtle, pictured…
Most pet turtles (I’d say they’re mostly aquatic turtles) have beautiful plastron shell patterns that change as the turtle get older, bigger, and matures. Continuous…
Because it’s been a while since we’ve featured submitted pet turtle pictures, here’s two: Reader Juan shares with us a picture (above) of his hatchling…
After looking for and researching several commercially-available turtle basking platforms, I found them to be unsatisfactory for my grown (not even fully grown yet) pet…
After looking through and reviewing several commercially available (you can buy them from a store or online) pet turtle basking platforms, including: Zoo Med Turtle…
New York City’s Central Park’s ponds and lakes are still the top turtle sightseeing destinations in New York. Just about every body of water in…
Pet Turtles And More reader Stephanie shares with us a picture of Benton, a pet red ear slider turtle. Benton was found “in Benton, LA…
See what a turtle goes through and sees, courtesy of a waterproof GoPro Hero HD Camera attached to a pet red ear slider turtle’s shell.…
Knoxnews.com recently published an article entitled: Families advised not to keep turtles as pets. The article has many good points such as: Red eared sliders…
Ever wonder exactly how an upside-down turtle on its back flips itself over? Here’s an Interesting video I made that shows my pet red ear…
Here’s Cinderella, my female red ear slider turtle, as I put her on her floating corkbark basking platform. It used to be big and strong…
The following are pictures of turtle set-ups with Creative Commons licenses found in Flickr.com. The owners of these photos are in no way affiliated with…
Pet Turtles And More reader Ryan shares his pictures of his pet red ear slider turtles, Crush and Tiny. Tiny got her name “because when…
This is part 3 of turtle set-up pictures from Flickr. Click here to see part 1 of the turtle pictures and here for part 2…
There are tons of videos on YouTube featuring pet red ear slider turtles and quite hard to find one that’s educational (even harder still to…
Here’s a wonderful video I found online of a pet turtle that really loves ReptoMin: The cute little western painted turtle eats ReptoMin all over!!…
Following up on writing about turtle shell shedding and my pet turtles shed shells, I thought I’d share about how the shell of Rex, my…
I wrote about turtle shell shedding in a previous blog post, pet turtle shell shedding. Oh yeah. Shell shedding is completely normal and natural for…