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im a snake and lizard keeper and i know this is not tru with them, its more of a to sick to grow large thing. but i work with many people whos friends and family keep sliders in small tanks to keep them small, and when they put them in a larger tank they started to grow again. just so i can either rest my mind that they are not being crule...or i can tell them otherwise, please let me know. research facts and documents would help, they wor at a vet and are the type to want research!!
thanks!!
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hanging out under heat lights burns up my brain cells!!

Nope, I have sliders and they just grow. Sometimes when the enclosure is small and new they will hesitate to eat. Is that what your asking? Otherwise, if they eat they grow. How much they grow depends on how much they eat and what they are eating and the temperature of the water.

I adopt a lot of local turtles in my area that have no home. I see many 7-8 inch turtles that I adopt in small 10 gallon tanks. You can see the personality difference in these turtles being inactive, staying at the bottom of the tank when fed, and very shy(some). Anyways, turtles grow too big for their environments if the environment is too small.

Jeff M
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Jeff M.
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1.2 tri-colored hogs
2.4 w.hogs
1.2 albino RES
2.4 spotted turtles
0.1 puppy
--->2.7 albino mice feeder breeding colony

Several years ago Reptiles Magazine ran an article on the top ten reptile myths. Keeping them in a small tank to inhibit growth was one of the top ten. It does not work, they will grow to the size they are supposed to be when they are fed properly.
Keeping a turtle in a tank that's too small for it is just plain cruel.
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PHRatz