I have 2 box turles and i keep them out side all year. This winer it was very cold and they hipernated underground for almost 7 months! Now they are eating all the worms, sulgs and other buggs i can find for them. They also love cantalope which they eat skin along with the meatey part. They are nice pets but the are only there for the warm mounts of the year.

I used to have a stinpot turtle whick is the smallest turtle. I keep it inside in a 10 gal aquarium for 7 years and he did fine. this type of turtle does not get out of the water to bask so it is very easy to keep. He would eat the floating turle food and all the gold fish that we put in the tank with him. It was fun to watch him chase the fish ( which he would always catch eventually) As my kids got older we ran out of room to keep the fish tank so i let him go back to the same lake we caught him in when i was with my kids fishing. I see a lot of this type of turtle for sale in the king snake turtle classifieds for like 10 to 15$ ( mud turtles are very similar) there are lots of there turtles around in lakes here. But box turtles are getting hard to find because of loss of habatat, thats why they cost so much more.

I have also seen people keeping the red eared sliders in outside ponds that peopel seem to be makeing in there front yard around here. But i dont know what they do with them in the winter.
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Jack

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