Hi Sol! I've had bad experience with algae eaters. Definitely a no go. Same with minnows, although I had assumed they'd end up snacks for the turtles. I have Buenos Aires tetras, and giant danios. You covered everything well. I have tried other tank mates like red tailed sharks, but ultimately removed them because I saw them being hunted. They just weren't quick or aggressive enough and probably would have wound up being ate.
Snails and shrimp are great they breed fast and make a good food source for the turtle. As long as u have a big enough tank and hiding spots for them to be able to breed u should be good
I’ve had 2 comet goldfish and 1 shubunkin in the tank for about a year and a half now. I got them big enough so I know Timothee (my turtle) wouldnt be able to eat them. The first two weeks he chased them a bit but they’ve all coexisted peacefully ever since!
The trap door thing with snails and turtles is a thing i had it happen years ago with painted turtles. Luckily I caught it in time. Happend multiple times.
I currently keep 5 large bichirs, a rocket gar, and festivum cichlid with my adult pink belly slider and musk turtle, they coexist beautifully, but they are also in a 500g
I have 2 African clawed frogs and 3 snails in my turtle tank. I’ve had them for months they have no aggression towards eachother so it’s been good. But my snails did mate and laid eggs so I’ve moved them to a different tank haha
Keep in mind that turtles are unpredictable and sometimes randomly turn on their tankmates. Provide a lot of hiding spaces for your frogs if you wish to keep them alive. And feed the turtle daily. Plainly put, don't become attached to animals that you choose to cohabit with your turtle. I do not recommend naming the frogs!
@@RichBuddy I'm sorry to say that the frogs would probably be eaten one by one. You had the right idea with the large enclosure, but here's the fatal flaw. Poison dart frogs are unlikely to have the instincts to coexist. They are confident and bold, and would probably just hang out around the turtle too obviously for him to ignore. Now in the wild they have potent poison and have nothing to fear. In captivity they are usually harmless, and they would not realize that they should be hiding when the turtle is around. For a box turtle, I'd say only a bullfrog would be safe. I'm hoping to move our red-eared slider to an outdoor enclosure for her to share with some bullfrogs, but even then they would have their own private pond to escape to.
Omg I'm kinda early again! I was just wondering what type of fish do u think will work with my yellow belly slider? She is still about 2-3 inches and loves to swim and bask. Thank you and LOVE your videos!!!❤️
I've got cherry shrimp with my common musk turtle, she does catch them once in a while but she misses 9 of 10 she goes for lol. They've bred and taken over her tank.
So I just finished building my turtle tank waiting a few months to add them in while the plants get nice roots on them. Am having trouble finding some info someone might be able to help with. My wife wants to put her orchid in the basking area and I can't find any info on whether it's safe in there or not for the false map turtle and for the plant.
I have a like 3 year d red eared slider and a tiger Oscar who is a small one and currently keeping in a 20 gallon until I can put him in the 69 gallon with the turtle do you think they would work together because my turtle is very aggressive to smaller fish
turtle girl you said minnows are bad what about rosy red minnows? B because they say they are feeder fish bc I have a yellow belly and im leaving for a week and he snacks on them. Do you recommend that or buying a turtle automatic feeder.
Hello my daughter recently got a baby yellow belly slider it took him a whole week before he ate anything which was a small warm cut in half and now he will only eat warms any advice please ?
I personally recommend rosy red minnows. Although they do contain thiaminase, that is not an issue when you are trying to cohabit them with turtles because if you set them up for success, the turtles will have a hard time catching them in the first place. Although they are "feeder" fish, they actually make much better tank mates! Reason 1: They can tolerate poor water conditions. Of course, the water should be kept as clean as possible, but they are not what I would call a "sensitive" species. They also have very basic oxygen requirements. Reason 2: They can tolerate temperatures anywhere between 100 degrees f and 33 degrees f. Reason 3: They are very fast. Their forked tails and streamlined bodies mean that if you provide them with a lot of space, they are too fast for the turtles to chase. Reason 4: They actually have a complex compound called "Schreckstoff" that marks their predators. That means that if one fish is eaten by the turtle, it will smell like danger to the others, and they will try harder to avoid it. The only reason feeder fish get eaten so quickly is because they are set up for disaster. They are usually not acclimated to the water, and they are thrown into the tank during feeding time. The results would hypothetically be different if the turtle was added into the tank AFTER the fish. But most importantly... Reason 5: Most people will not be devastated if the turtle manages to catch them. And if the turtle eats the minnows on one occasion, that is not nearly enough thiaminase to cause any issues. We also feed our turtle pellets that help to replenish any thiamin lost.
Hello my husband had a leaperd soft shell turtle and has feeder goldfish that has gotten big. You said they shouldn't eat goldfish????? It stops them from absorbing UVB??? For how long? I don't understand, is it temporary or permit that they won't be able to absorb UVB
NO TOXIC FISH From personal experience, please don't put any potentially toxic or poisonous fish in with a turtle. Under stress some catfish like cory cats can release a toxin. I has a snapper who was injured when he tried to snack on a cory cat. The turtle did eventually fully recover. The fish was definitely alive afterward, but had to be removed from that tank.
İ introduced two tetras, ghost and cherry shrimp and a snail in my RES tank and she tried to go after them for the first two days then gave up when she couldnt catch any 😅 now she mostly leaves them alone unless the shrimp get too close but honestly theyre too fast for my turtle. By the way my turtle is super hungry all the time and goes after anything that moves in the tank EXCEPT her current tank mates(she'll try to bite my hand when i remove the filter for cleaning even though shes well fed) the only problem i saw was she tried to eat the snail so i moved it to another tank but i think as long as the tank mates are fast enough its going to be alright. Also they do an awesome job of keeping the tank clean!
Hi I love your videos and just wanted to ask how much does it cost to get a northern diamond back turtle I been wanting one for a month now and been doing a lot of research and now figuring out how much the turtle costs thanks and great video!
See I had to find the most aggressive fish for my turtle Bowser’s pond… but then again my turtle is super aggro all the time everything just stays clear of Bowser now(bowser is a hybrid of a common Florida snapper and a alligator snapper)
If the do good with tiger barbs would one be ok with a red tail shark I’m just concerned as the turtle would spend most of its time on the bottom where the shark stays so I know at some point the will interact and I know turtles aren’t that fast so would it at least stand up for itself/ be ok to just hide in its shell from all my research I’ve only read that retails just like to chase and don’t necessarily nip/ attack the fish but will swim the fish to exhaustion
I can probably find a location but I’d love to know where your from state wise cause down here in Georgia we have some great creek fish to keep with turtles like bream, small bass, hogsuckers, darters, catfish and horn threads. Love for you to see these fish. They live in and amongst yellow bellies and snapping turtles all the time
I currently have a 200gal tub with four red eared sliders. I wanted to try putting fish so I put minnows and goldfish. Unfortunately they ate the minnows in a day but all of the goldfish are still alive after six months. Happy with the result I put in a koi and it has been dominating the whole tub ever since.
I have a baby yellow belly slider, different turtles of course but a few basic things are keep the tank a bit on the warm end, 78-82 degrees, feed twice per day, also I give freeze dried shrimp once every few days as a high protein treat, don’t want to over due it but good to give them a lot of protein at this age
Hi, my name is Mattie and I’ve watched a few of your videos. I just bought a two year old river Cooter and I was just wondering about literally everything like what type of basking area should I have in her tank? is there too much water in her tank? I’ve also watched a few of your videos about basking, and I still can’t help but to get very very concerned and it also kind of looks like she struggles to get to the top sometimes? Just wondering if you had any specific tips for this specific turtle❤
Hi! Id do an above tank basking area. River cooters get big and love to swim, so maximizing the amount of water is great. I would suggest maybe adding some extra traction to the ramp that goes up to the basking area. Rubber shelving liner can work great for this.
can you give me information about a axolotl so My axolotl has vellow dots over its body and I have not seen it until today is that normal or is it not normal
I used to throw some small feeders (i dont remember what they were) with my RES when I would go out of town for a week or so and he always seemed to save 1 to hang out with 😆
I have two river cooters with a betta ish for about 2 years and they never eat them. Even when i put in feeder fish the turtle with ea them but leave betta
My turtle actively chases anything that moved lol recently started to move him to an inside tank because winter is coming and now I’m looking for a fish to help clean up the bottom today is the first day that he has been in it and he seems to like it
I have a Red Eared Slider turtle and her shell is turning white(not white spots). Her shell gets more white in the sun but basks normally(i don't keep her in the sun for too long). Still she eats her food properly, basks in the sun properly and acts like any other healthy turtle, looks like a healthy turtle, she has clear, good eyes, her shell shape is normal. There isn't any good vets in my country. What should I do?
It could be that the turtle just has hard water stains or calcium deposits based on what you're describing ... but I couldn't know without pics. Hope that helps!
Had about 12 African cichlids once one was well bigger than the rest and considered the tank boss my db terrapin never messed with it for at least 7 months then one day I came home from work and walked into a crime scene Lampo (turtle) was tearing him up I went from 12-15 to about 4 inside 2 weeks
yeah they're fine to eat...just not good tankmates if you want them to stay alive haha! and make sure they can't choke on the snails. Ramshorns and pondsnails are a great option...mystery and apple are sometimes a little too big and might be a hazard.
My turtle died today he was an orange earned slider he had some problems with his reptilian eye recent and treated and just today when I went out he died
Learned some hard lessons on this one. My baby alligator snapping turtle never attacked anything. Put an electric blue crayfish in with him, gone in 1 night. Yet a pleco has lived in with him for his whole like without being eaten. In my common snapper tank....nothing survives. Anything in there ANYTHING is food. Living or fake.
I just want to warn you that the pleco is doomed to a definite fate unless it passes away of old age before the turtle grows into a monster. I also hope you are prepared to accommodate the adults of both species. You might be able to house the two together if they are similar in size, but you would need a HUGE enclosure. A 1,000 gallon outdoor enclosure might be required.
@@avonavians2860 Yes, I have found as long as alligator snapers are fed well they do not hunt. Common snappers are different, there is never enough for them they will eat until nothing is left to be eaten. I have plans for them both, both are in very large enclosures already and I am aware of the adult size of each. I would never house them together that is a recipe for disaster.
I think housing the pleco with the turtle is also a recipe for disaster. As long as you don't name the pleco and get attached, though, it should be okay. Just beware that plecos are spiny and not defenseless. Turtles are unpredictable opportunistic predators. Just because they ignore a tankmate one year doesn't mean they will never eat it.
@@avonavians2860 Yes I am not under the illusion that it is 100% safe, but I currently have 2 tanks, alligator snapper and common snapper. And of the two, the one is much safer then the other.
@@zombiewanderer I'm surprised that your alligator snapper is so laid back. Part of me is convinced that turtles within a species do have individual personalities. I am acquainted with red-eared sliders and within their species it's hard to tell if a red-eared slider will get along with a pleco or devour it.
@@TheTurtleGirl it's ur yellow turtle the one who is always behind u with that huge tank. I think it's called the painted turtle. It's behind in ur newer videos with driftwood
@The Turtle Girl Could you maybe do a video on how to know your axolotls gender Because ive read that female are rounder and dont have the bump between their leggs butt mine has both so i still dont know if i have a male or female
I would not worry about keeping those with turtles. Both crustaceans are so prolific that if you provide a lot of shelter and plants the turtles are unlikely to eliminate them. Just remember that scuds and seed shrimp won't eat the turtle waste much. But they love uneaten food and algae!
I keep guppies, ghost shrimp, and a pleco with my razorback musk turtle it’s been about a month and so far so good I’ve only lost 1 shrimp to the turtle so far
I have a common musk and a northern black knobbed map. They both will eat snails. The map will eat a snail every once in awhile and they can be much larger than will fit in his mouth. The musk will eat all snails, no matter what. Shell and all. Size doesn't matter. :) If it goes in his tank, be ok with it being eaten at some point. He even has a breeding population of guppies at his disposal whenever he wants a fresh snack. The map is able to live with kuhli loaches and neon tetras without issue.
What’s something that could stay with a male yellow eared slider. Found him as a hatchlings in the grass with seagulls trying to eat him so he’s very friendly with humans and even swims up to my hand and rests his head on it. But I’m unsure how a 15 year old male slider would react to fish or shrimp especially considering he’s been a little solo turtle for most of his life aside from a loach that’s catapulted itself out the tank somehow
One of my buddies breeds reptiles an for a while he had south American species of turtle living with a caiman lizard it was pretty great the turtle was big enough the lizard didn't see it as food an often the turtle would eat left over bits of aquatic snails that the caiman lizard crunched up
Question: I've had my turtle for about 4 years now but everything I come near he bites at the glass of the aquarium, he also tries to bite my finger when I pick him up to clean his aquarium. What do I do?
I hate when people say oh you can't add other fish to a turtle tank. If you keep the water clean you won't have an issue. The first time I added neons my turtle ate a few. Sure it's natural. However, when I got more again she did not even touch them only if they died.
Snails and plecos by the way are perfect to be with turtles turtles don't mess with plecos for one they don't like to be near them they avoid them at all cost and snails they don't really go after unless they're out of a shell
Hey I rescued my yellow belly slider and I got a turtle topper and I have a 20 gallon tank high with a 3 inch shell juvenile and I’m planning to upgrade but I don’t have the money rn I love your videos and keep up the work💚💛 her name is moku expired from hoku 😁
my small turtles are in a tank with a betta they dont bother him I have a red ear slider and a terrapin turtle but they are still small it may be different as they get bigger but an axolotl I can't have in the state of maine I want one really bad I hope the state changes law
You and Chris are literally my favorite people to watch! 😆😁😄thank you for teaching! And sharing your experiences!
awww thank you!
Hi Sol! I've had bad experience with algae eaters. Definitely a no go. Same with minnows, although I had assumed they'd end up snacks for the turtles. I have Buenos Aires tetras, and giant danios. You covered everything well. I have tried other tank mates like red tailed sharks, but ultimately removed them because I saw them being hunted. They just weren't quick or aggressive enough and probably would have wound up being ate.
Thanks for sharing!
I put 4 turtles and a rat in an aquarium once. Now, those turtles fight crime, eats pizza and made the rat their master.
Lmaoo
you are an inspiration to many.
ha
TMNT
Nani!?
Snails and shrimp are great they breed fast and make a good food source for the turtle. As long as u have a big enough tank and hiding spots for them to be able to breed u should be good
I’ve had 2 comet goldfish and 1 shubunkin in the tank for about a year and a half now. I got them big enough so I know Timothee (my turtle) wouldnt be able to eat them. The first two weeks he chased them a bit but they’ve all coexisted peacefully ever since!
I'm glad that you got it to work out!
Notif squad 🤙🤙🤙
Ppl really tryna put axolotls and turtles together 🥲
what kind of psychopath does that
Hi chris
people be crazy 🙄😅
Ay Chris
The trap door thing with snails and turtles is a thing i had it happen years ago with painted turtles. Luckily I caught it in time. Happend multiple times.
I currently keep 5 large bichirs, a rocket gar, and festivum cichlid with my adult pink belly slider and musk turtle, they coexist beautifully, but they are also in a 500g
That's awesome! I've been hesitant to get one because I thought it would bite my dinosaur fish
I have 2 African clawed frogs and 3 snails in my turtle tank. I’ve had them for months they have no aggression towards eachother so it’s been good. But my snails did mate and laid eggs so I’ve moved them to a different tank haha
very cool!
Keep in mind that turtles are unpredictable and sometimes randomly turn on their tankmates. Provide a lot of hiding spaces for your frogs if you wish to keep them alive. And feed the turtle daily.
Plainly put, don't become attached to animals that you choose to cohabit with your turtle. I do not recommend naming the frogs!
@@RichBuddy I'm sorry to say that the frogs would probably be eaten one by one.
You had the right idea with the large enclosure, but here's the fatal flaw. Poison dart frogs are unlikely to have the instincts to coexist. They are confident and bold, and would probably just hang out around the turtle too obviously for him to ignore. Now in the wild they have potent poison and have nothing to fear. In captivity they are usually harmless, and they would not realize that they should be hiding when the turtle is around.
For a box turtle, I'd say only a bullfrog would be safe.
I'm hoping to move our red-eared slider to an outdoor enclosure for her to share with some bullfrogs, but even then they would have their own private pond to escape to.
so knowledgable! i have had my lil turtle 2 years now. he ate up all the fish I had in the tank so I would like to buy more soon.
glad that the vid could help!
Omg I'm kinda early again! I was just wondering what type of fish do u think will work with my yellow belly slider? She is still about 2-3 inches and loves to swim and bask. Thank you and LOVE your videos!!!❤️
it depends if you want fish t live with them or not.
Yay! I'd try something like danios to start
I've got cherry shrimp with my common musk turtle, she does catch them once in a while but she misses 9 of 10 she goes for lol. They've bred and taken over her tank.
That’s awesome! I love cherry shrimp
So I just finished building my turtle tank waiting a few months to add them in while the plants get nice roots on them. Am having trouble finding some info someone might be able to help with. My wife wants to put her orchid in the basking area and I can't find any info on whether it's safe in there or not for the false map turtle and for the plant.
what type of orchid?
It's a phalaenopsis
I have a like 3 year d red eared slider and a tiger Oscar who is a small one and currently keeping in a 20 gallon until I can put him in the 69 gallon with the turtle do you think they would work together because my turtle is very aggressive to smaller fish
turtle girl you said minnows are bad what about rosy red minnows? B because they say they are feeder fish bc I have a yellow belly and im leaving for a week and he snacks on them. Do you recommend that or buying a turtle automatic feeder.
I used to feed my turtle goldfish until I noticed she wasn’t eating the last three.. they have been living together over a year now
Disney is slowly becoming reality. Please do not resist.
Cool!!
My turtle had 3 minnows and a big goldfish and we thought they were friends for a year, until...one by one they started disappearing.
Hello my daughter recently got a baby yellow belly slider it took him a whole week before he ate anything which was a small warm cut in half and now he will only eat warms any advice please ?
I personally recommend rosy red minnows. Although they do contain thiaminase, that is not an issue when you are trying to cohabit them with turtles because if you set them up for success, the turtles will have a hard time catching them in the first place. Although they are "feeder" fish, they actually make much better tank mates!
Reason 1: They can tolerate poor water conditions. Of course, the water should be kept as clean as possible, but they are not what I would call a "sensitive" species. They also have very basic oxygen requirements.
Reason 2: They can tolerate temperatures anywhere between 100 degrees f and 33 degrees f.
Reason 3: They are very fast. Their forked tails and streamlined bodies mean that if you provide them with a lot of space, they are too fast for the turtles to chase.
Reason 4: They actually have a complex compound called "Schreckstoff" that marks their predators. That means that if one fish is eaten by the turtle, it will smell like danger to the others, and they will try harder to avoid it.
The only reason feeder fish get eaten so quickly is because they are set up for disaster.
They are usually not acclimated to the water, and they are thrown into the tank during feeding time.
The results would hypothetically be different if the turtle was added into the tank AFTER the fish.
But most importantly...
Reason 5: Most people will not be devastated if the turtle manages to catch them. And if the turtle eats the minnows on one occasion, that is not nearly enough thiaminase to cause any issues.
We also feed our turtle pellets that help to replenish any thiamin lost.
thank you for sharing!
@@TheTurtleGirl Yeah, for tank mates they are okay, but for feeders they really aren't that great or healthy.
Hello my husband had a leaperd soft shell turtle and has feeder goldfish that has gotten big. You said they shouldn't eat goldfish????? It stops them from absorbing UVB??? For how long? I don't understand, is it temporary or permit that they won't be able to absorb UVB
It doesn't stop them from absorbing uvb it stops them from using vitamin B, aka thiamine!
NO TOXIC FISH
From personal experience, please don't put any potentially toxic or poisonous fish in with a turtle. Under stress some catfish like cory cats can release a toxin. I has a snapper who was injured when he tried to snack on a cory cat. The turtle did eventually fully recover. The fish was definitely alive afterward, but had to be removed from that tank.
İ introduced two tetras, ghost and cherry shrimp and a snail in my RES tank and she tried to go after them for the first two days then gave up when she couldnt catch any 😅 now she mostly leaves them alone unless the shrimp get too close but honestly theyre too fast for my turtle. By the way my turtle is super hungry all the time and goes after anything that moves in the tank EXCEPT her current tank mates(she'll try to bite my hand when i remove the filter for cleaning even though shes well fed) the only problem i saw was she tried to eat the snail so i moved it to another tank but i think as long as the tank mates are fast enough its going to be alright. Also they do an awesome job of keeping the tank clean!
Hi I love your videos and just wanted to ask how much does it cost to get a northern diamond back turtle I been wanting one for a month now and been doing a lot of research and now figuring out how much the turtle costs thanks and great video!
It really depends! You just want to find a good breeder who has healthy animals
Okay thank you so much!
Can I put in a gulper catfish with turtle
See I had to find the most aggressive fish for my turtle Bowser’s pond… but then again my turtle is super aggro all the time everything just stays clear of Bowser now(bowser is a hybrid of a common Florida snapper and a alligator snapper)
Bowser is an awesome name for a turtle 🐢
That's my turtles name too lol
my turtle is named bowser too lol 🤣
If the do good with tiger barbs would one be ok with a red tail shark I’m just concerned as the turtle would spend most of its time on the bottom where the shark stays so I know at some point the will interact and I know turtles aren’t that fast so would it at least stand up for itself/ be ok to just hide in its shell from all my research I’ve only read that retails just like to chase and don’t necessarily nip/ attack the fish but will swim the fish to exhaustion
I can probably find a location but I’d love to know where your from state wise cause down here in Georgia we have some great creek fish to keep with turtles like bream, small bass, hogsuckers, darters, catfish and horn threads. Love for you to see these fish. They live in and amongst yellow bellies and snapping turtles all the time
Im from washington, but just recently moved to colorado!
I currently have a 200gal tub with four red eared sliders. I wanted to try putting fish so I put minnows and goldfish. Unfortunately they ate the minnows in a day but all of the goldfish are still alive after six months. Happy with the result I put in a koi and it has been dominating the whole tub ever since.
Glad that you found something that worked out!
I once had a chair named cheese until my pet turtle named Godzilla stomped on it in a fit on rage.
a chair?
@@newgamesrobloxYT yes a chair.
incredible
I got a turtle and her shell is turning black what should i do!
What about algae feeders? Those don’t need any special care do they? They just feed off the algae right ?
Love your channel!
appreciate it!
I got my turtle yesterday anyone have tips? He is a southern painted turtle he’s a baby!
I have a baby yellow belly slider, different turtles of course but a few basic things are keep the tank a bit on the warm end, 78-82 degrees, feed twice per day, also I give freeze dried shrimp once every few days as a high protein treat, don’t want to over due it but good to give them a lot of protein at this age
First thing is to give it a really cool name.
Thanks guys! And yes I gave him I pretty cool name it is Oscar!
Oscar is a great name!
@@TheTurtleGirl thanks!
Hi, my name is Mattie and I’ve watched a few of your videos. I just bought a two year old river Cooter and I was just wondering about literally everything like what type of basking area should I have in her tank? is there too much water in her tank? I’ve also watched a few of your videos about basking, and I still can’t help but to get very very concerned and it also kind of looks like she struggles to get to the top sometimes? Just wondering if you had any specific tips for this specific turtle❤
Hi! Id do an above tank basking area. River cooters get big and love to swim, so maximizing the amount of water is great. I would suggest maybe adding some extra traction to the ramp that goes up to the basking area. Rubber shelving liner can work great for this.
can you give me
information about a axolotl so My
axolotl has vellow dots over its body
and I have not seen it until today is that
normal or is it not normal
I have two Florida alligator gars that are nearly 2 feet long. Can I add turtle to that tank after they are grown to their full size?
I probably wouldn’t …
I used to throw some small feeders (i dont remember what they were) with my RES when I would go out of town for a week or so and he always seemed to save 1 to hang out with 😆
Can a large Pleco live with red earred slider turtles?
It can work as long as you have the right habit for both of them.
We have silver tip tetra's in our musk turtle tank, they have cohabitated quite well for the past 9 months.
silver tips are really cool! they're another species I considered
I have two river cooters with a betta ish for about 2 years and they never eat them. Even when i put in feeder fish the turtle with ea them but leave betta
Nice! I’m glad you had some luck!
hey I'm trying to find a 125 gallon tank do you know where I could buy one? I've been trying to find one for the past 2 days and couldn't find one
they have at the pet store usually :D
Can I keep small turtle with glofish's together in my big tank
Please reply me
You could, I would just make sure the glofish have enough places to hide, in case your turtle becomes a little too interesting in eating them lol
My turtle actively chases anything that moved lol recently started to move him to an inside tank because winter is coming and now I’m looking for a fish to help clean up the bottom today is the first day that he has been in it and he seems to like it
I have a Red Eared Slider turtle and her shell is turning white(not white spots). Her shell gets more white in the sun but basks normally(i don't keep her in the sun for too long). Still she eats her food properly, basks in the sun properly and acts like any other healthy turtle, looks like a healthy turtle, she has clear, good eyes, her shell shape is normal. There isn't any good vets in my country. What should I do?
It could be that the turtle just has hard water stains or calcium deposits based on what you're describing ... but I couldn't know without pics. Hope that helps!
Hi I’m new here is it possible to keep a turtle with koi pond fish I’ve asked around but I I’m not getting a direct answer
Yes, it is! As long as it’s big enough for everyone to live comfortably and has everything the turtle needs, like a basking area for example.
If my tap water is from a well and it’s treated with salts is it still safe to top off the tank with?
Hmmm...I'm not sure what the process would be for treating well water :D
Can I put a snow flake ell and a bichir fish in with a turtle 🐢
Had about 12 African cichlids once one was well bigger than the rest and considered the tank boss my db terrapin never messed with it for at least 7 months then one day I came home from work and walked into a crime scene Lampo (turtle) was tearing him up I went from 12-15 to about 4 inside 2 weeks
Been contemplating buying neon tetras to pair with my 5 inch slider...worst case my girl just has a slightly more expensive snack lol
Best of luck! Hope it went well!
Hey quick question for ya Turtle Girl, do I turn off the wave maker at night? Or should I keep that on!? Thanks my friend :-)
I turn mine off at night
I have a goofy trio of a crappie minnow, a small goldfish, and a baby soft shell turtle
Nice!
So would shrimp and snails be safe prey to provide for them? Or do you list them in case one doesn't want to provide them as prey?
yeah they're fine to eat...just not good tankmates if you want them to stay alive haha! and make sure they can't choke on the snails. Ramshorns and pondsnails are a great option...mystery and apple are sometimes a little too big and might be a hazard.
@@TheTurtleGirl thank you.
My turtle died today he was an orange earned slider he had some problems with his reptilian eye recent and treated and just today when I went out he died
I’m so sorry to hear that :((
Learned some hard lessons on this one. My baby alligator snapping turtle never attacked anything. Put an electric blue crayfish in with him, gone in 1 night. Yet a pleco has lived in with him for his whole like without being eaten. In my common snapper tank....nothing survives. Anything in there ANYTHING is food. Living or fake.
I just want to warn you that the pleco is doomed to a definite fate unless it passes away of old age before the turtle grows into a monster. I also hope you are prepared to accommodate the adults of both species. You might be able to house the two together if they are similar in size, but you would need a HUGE enclosure. A 1,000 gallon outdoor enclosure might be required.
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Yes, I have found as long as alligator snapers are fed well they do not hunt. Common snappers are different, there is never enough for them they will eat until nothing is left to be eaten. I have plans for them both, both are in very large enclosures already and I am aware of the adult size of each. I would never house them together that is a recipe for disaster.
I think housing the pleco with the turtle is also a recipe for disaster. As long as you don't name the pleco and get attached, though, it should be okay. Just beware that plecos are spiny and not defenseless.
Turtles are unpredictable opportunistic predators.
Just because they ignore a tankmate one year doesn't mean they will never eat it.
@@avonavians2860 Yes I am not under the illusion that it is 100% safe, but I currently have 2 tanks, alligator snapper and common snapper. And of the two, the one is much safer then the other.
@@zombiewanderer I'm surprised that your alligator snapper is so laid back. Part of me is convinced that turtles within a species do have individual personalities. I am acquainted with red-eared sliders and within their species it's hard to tell if a red-eared slider will get along with a pleco or devour it.
Omg how big is the 75gallon turtle tank??
75 gallons? lol
@@TheTurtleGirl it's ur yellow turtle the one who is always behind u with that huge tank. I think it's called the painted turtle. It's behind in ur newer videos with driftwood
You should do a reacting to axolotl/fish tank again
I really want you to react to my axolotl tank it would be so fun to watch and i can get advies
that's a cool suggestion!
Omg you liked and commented on my comment 😀🤩
@The Turtle Girl Could you maybe do a video on how to know your axolotls gender
Because ive read that female are rounder and dont have the bump between their leggs butt mine has both so i still dont know if i have a male or female
Great video! 😃 🐢
Thanks!
What types of setups or small turtle that I can put with my African dwarf frogs?
I wouldn’t mix turtles with any type of frog , just because they’re a bit too different.
I personally wanna get scuds (freshwater amphipods) and seed shrimps as cleaners for turtles along with lots of plants to help filter the water
I would not worry about keeping those with turtles. Both crustaceans are so prolific that if you provide a lot of shelter and plants the turtles are unlikely to eliminate them. Just remember that scuds and seed shrimp won't eat the turtle waste much. But they love uneaten food and algae!
@@avonavians2860 I'm aware, that's what I'm counting on them doing lol
I keep guppies, ghost shrimp, and a pleco with my razorback musk turtle it’s been about a month and so far so good I’ve only lost 1 shrimp to the turtle so far
I have a common musk and a northern black knobbed map. They both will eat snails. The map will eat a snail every once in awhile and they can be much larger than will fit in his mouth. The musk will eat all snails, no matter what. Shell and all. Size doesn't matter. :) If it goes in his tank, be ok with it being eaten at some point. He even has a breeding population of guppies at his disposal whenever he wants a fresh snack. The map is able to live with kuhli loaches and neon tetras without issue.
nice!! thanks for sharing!
and that's why my parents bought a 50 gallon tank for my goldfish now
what about loaches with baby common musk?
loaches might be worth a shot - depending on the type they might grow large though so keep that in mind
Can I put a golden flame tetra in a turtle tank
Do you want it to be food?… 🤨
AWESOME VIDEO!
thank you!!
My red eared slider LOVES ramshorns.
hehe they make good snacks!
What’s something that could stay with a male yellow eared slider. Found him as a hatchlings in the grass with seagulls trying to eat him so he’s very friendly with humans and even swims up to my hand and rests his head on it. But I’m unsure how a 15 year old male slider would react to fish or shrimp especially considering he’s been a little solo turtle for most of his life aside from a loach that’s catapulted itself out the tank somehow
Id try some small peaceful fish!
One of my buddies breeds reptiles an for a while he had south American species of turtle living with a caiman lizard it was pretty great the turtle was big enough the lizard didn't see it as food an often the turtle would eat left over bits of aquatic snails that the caiman lizard crunched up
I have a female betta with my musk turtle and they live together fine. They live in a planted 40 gallon tank
Female betas are probably more likely to get along than males who are territorial.
Question: I've had my turtle for about 4 years now but everything I come near he bites at the glass of the aquarium, he also tries to bite my finger when I pick him up to clean his aquarium. What do I do?
try watching this :) - ua-cam.com/video/vkh-PfIKbdA/v-deo.html
What substrat do you use for your leopard gecko ?
-ground
it's vinyl flooring!
How often shall i feed my 2 year old red eared slider turtle?
I'd try every other day!
@@TheTurtleGirl thanks a lot.
My flying river turtle tankmates with my polypterus and nothing happens with them after 4th years. They growth together
I hate when people say oh you can't add other fish to a turtle tank. If you keep the water clean you won't have an issue. The first time I added neons my turtle ate a few. Sure it's natural. However, when I got more again she did not even touch them only if they died.
Yeah! Its not that you cant, you just have to be cautious! Too many get eaten lol
@@TheTurtleGirl That's why u buy cheap neons only haha.
How about Plecos? 🙂❤️🤙
worth a shot, just make sure you have the space and know that they will increase the bioload of your tank by a lot!
could i put a arowana in my tank?
I wouldn’t, but I guess depends on the tank size, your turtle, and water conditions. Even then… I probably wouldn’t
My Painted Turtle got her claws stuck in a trapdoor snail. Fortunately I discovered it before she drowned.
Can you put crayfish?
Which turtle breed are the most friendly for community fish tank?
Musk and mud turtles
thank you☺️ arowana turtle aquarium video
my friend🐢🐠🐟
Lol no arowanas in my future but they sure are cool!
Snails and plecos by the way are perfect to be with turtles turtles don't mess with plecos for one they don't like to be near them they avoid them at all cost and snails they don't really go after unless they're out of a shell
I definitely recommend tiger barbs and tetras that can out swim the turtle
they're good choices for sure!
Can I keep crayfish with a turtle
Just as I was watching ur video my turtle is basking for the first time 🥰
Is it safe for me to be putting minnows in my turtle tank since he is a painted turtle & that would be his normal diet in the wild?
Yes, minnows would be good for the painted to eat, NO GOLDFISH
@@borundle7197 ok I have tried feeding greens other veggies and turtle pebble food and he does not want any of it besides minnows!
Hey I rescued my yellow belly slider and I got a turtle topper and I have a 20 gallon tank high with a 3 inch shell juvenile and I’m planning to upgrade but I don’t have the money rn I love your videos and keep up the work💚💛 her name is moku expired from hoku 😁
Thanks for watching!!
I keep Jewel cichlids with my turtles and they do good together
Those are some cool fish!
@@TheTurtleGirl thank you
Can i put a baby turtle with My 3 five year old turtles in the tank?
What kind of turtle is that in your background swimming around
How about an alligator gar?
I havent researched enough to say!
Also no frogs
My Indian roof turtle eats cucumber only
It doesn't eat it's turtle food
What should I do 😭😭🙏
Please reply
hmm...maybe try scenting the pellets with tuna water? or just only offering pellets until they eat?
I have 10 Buenos Aires Tetras in my turtle tank... they're buddies
Yesss buenos aires!
What kind of turtle do you have in this tank?
Diamondback terrapin!
i recently got some zebra danios for my musk turtle tank expecting a bit of attempted murder but nessie has been quite welcoming!
Nessie! what a great name!
So, what did you end up doing with your blind turtles?
Hi turtle 🐢 girl 👩🦰 so I got two indian roofed turtles yay me so can you please do a care video of Indian roofed turtles
Unfortunately I've never cared for those so not likely, but thanks for the suggestion!!
my small turtles are in a tank with a betta they dont bother him I have a red ear slider and a terrapin turtle but they are still small it may be different as they get bigger but an axolotl I can't have in the state of maine I want one really bad I hope the state changes law
Aw that's cool!
What do turtles eat
I am an hour late Well atleast turtle girl content is good and helpful
Appreciate you watching!
Hi turtle girl, can you please do a video on how to care for a hatchling Red ear slider 😊. I'm sure it will be very helpful for many of us. Thank you
Please do a video on how to take care of 2 indian roofed turtles
thanks for the suggestion!