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I don't know a lot about turtles... they're my wife's pets and she's not sure what's going on... Do you need to provide a Red Eared Slider area to lay eggs even if they're not housed with other Sliders?

We have a Slider that's a few years old now and it's been digging at the land section of it's cage but it can only dig down a fraction of an inch or so now. Could it be trying to lay eggs? I know Chameleons do that regardless of whether or not they've been bred. If that is the case, what type of substrate should we provide it. It's in a large waterland tub.

Thanks,
Kevin

Its probly trying to get out. I would eliminate the land area, and only provide a basking spot large enough to get completely out of the water.
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OUr turtles like to rearrange. Perhaps she does not like the way her house is set up?
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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)

my 8 year old female is doing the same thing.

actually she stopped eating. I took her to the vet because of her appetite, and the vet said she's fine, but has some eggs.... He recomended to buy a box of sand for her , like a kitty play sand and box(not in the tank, but separately outside). she wouldn't go for the sand, just climbed out, but now every day she wants to come out of the water tank, and when we let her out, she walks over to the edge of a rug and "digs" for hours.

The vet didn't say anything about danger, the eggs will either finally lay or they will be reabsorbed;

but that's why I'm on this group right now, is to try to find out other people's experience with egg laying