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The box store employees say NO! turtles do not get along with other retiles.
If the enclosure was large enough to allow ample room for each species, can you have turtles and (for example) a water dragon or chameleon?

Thanks

All of these animals that you are wantin to put together with a RES are requiring totally different care from one another. Therefore, there is no good way to come to a median in their environment to make it suit all of them. Furthermore, if there was a way to keep them together, I doubt very seriously that you would have that big of an enclosure to prevent stressing them stressing one another out. You can keep multiples of the same species together in the same enclosure provided that you provide them ample room, but past that dont risk including various species in the same enclosure. You are only risking the health and well being of the animals and it isn't fair to them.

Chris

>>The box store employees say NO! turtles do not get along with other retiles.
>>If the enclosure was large enough to allow ample room for each species, can you have turtles and (for example) a water dragon or chameleon?
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>>Thanks
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Uniting A Proactive Primate and Exotic Animal League
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Remove one of the "Stressing" out of there and "wantin" should be spelled "wantinG". Sorry, early morning.

Chris

>>All of these animals that you are wantin to put together with a RES are requiring totally different care from one another. Therefore, there is no good way to come to a median in their environment to make it suit all of them. Furthermore, if there was a way to keep them together, I doubt very seriously that you would have that big of an enclosure to prevent stressing them stressing one another out. You can keep multiples of the same species together in the same enclosure provided that you provide them ample room, but past that dont risk including various species in the same enclosure. You are only risking the health and well being of the animals and it isn't fair to them.
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>>Chris
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>>>>The box store employees say NO! turtles do not get along with other retiles.
>>>>If the enclosure was large enough to allow ample room for each species, can you have turtles and (for example) a water dragon or chameleon?
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>>>>Thanks
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>>U.A.P.P.E.A.L.
>>Uniting A Proactive Primate and Exotic Animal League
>>www.uappeal.org
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U.A.P.P.E.A.L.
Uniting A Proactive Primate and Exotic Animal League
www.uappeal.org

Thank you. I must correct something also. I was not WANTING to I was just asking.
Thanks for your input.

you'll see species mixing in zoos. Generally this works well, but of course, the species are carefully chosen, AND, of course the cage is huge; designed so the species will rarely encounter each other. Since chelonians in general require such a large space, it's barely practical for most to keep them as pets, let alone as part of a community.

Community tanks are always interesting in my opinion, but for the average pet owner, should be avoided when using turtles.

Ian

No, I don't the turtles don't get along with other animals; They are carnivorous. Mine will gladly eat anything that drops down into his tank. I tried putting crayfish in, and he ate it! All the fish i put in his tank. sooner or later, are eaten.

thank you for all your replies

After a few more weekd of getting to know my turtles we see that they will only be with other RES. This is no problem, I was just curious. They are very carnivorous!! Holy crap, tonight we fed 3 RES turtles (about 5 inches dia) 2 dozen crickets and then the scarfed down 5 feeder goldfish! It was like a feeding frenzy! You would think we were starving them but they just prefer live/fresh food.
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Tammy, Doug, Skylar, Andrew, Aaron, Lessley
1 cat (azul)
2 parakeets
1 beta (my kitchen buddy)
1 hampster (oreo)
3 RES (Big mama, Quazimoto, no name)

If they had a chance, they will eat other animals! It's a good source of protein, vitamins, and calcium (and other minerals).