what small aquatic turtle is fairly easy to care for that eats insects and that can be housed in a cage a bit bigger than a 10g? im new to turts.
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what turtle is good for me?
cillie
May 21, 2004 11:18 PM
Replies (3)
honuman
May 24, 2004 06:39 PM
Unfortunately none. There is no turtle specie that would be able to stay in an enclosure that size for very long. Also their diets tend to be a bit more complex than just insects.
They are wonderful animals -- it is a shame that they don't have one that would stay small enough to be happy and healthy in such an enclosure.
cillie
May 24, 2004 10:29 PM
darn! turtles are sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
chelonialuv
Jun 02, 2004 02:17 PM
some mud turtles stay small and can be set up in a 20gal long tank. use a raised basking place so the turt can swim al over the tank and there arent big rocks taking up space. you have to have a good filter system going because clean water is real important. keep water plants in there and the turtle will eat some. you can keep little snails and feeder fish like guppys and danios, not goldfish, for food too. then you can feed some pellets or turtle brittle and butterworms and crickets and other stuff too. you can keep a mud turtle happy in a kinda smallish tank if you set it up right.
