hiya, as i have mentioned in the past, i have 2 turtles, i yellow bellied female that is aproximatly 5inches long and one male florida cooter that is around 3inches long.
i posted a message a while ago asking if the setup i had, was ok for them and the responce i got was positive, but i was told that at the time i only had my water at 6 inches deep that i could easily have my water deeper.
i also posted a question appertaining to water mites whick kept appearing in mytank for no apparent reason, i have recently found that the mites were coming off a piece of supposidly "pre-steralised" bog wood, aswell as some plastic plants i had in there.
now is my question, as i had to take the bog wood out of the tank (the bog wood was the turtles dry land part) i decided that rather than geting another piece of bog wood and risking it again, i would use some large chunks of slate and use these instead, so decided that whuilst i was at it it wqould buy 2, and place them on top of each other giving the turtles extra height, therefore the water could be deeper fort hem to swim in!,
i have recently set this up and the water is approx 12 inches deep, but im pretty concerned that these 2 turtles havnt really ever been out of their depth in water before, they dont seem to be able to swim upwards to the air properly,
does this meant he water is too deep? or will they get used to it once they have had time to adapt?? i have only had them like this for 2/3 hours as of yet.
hope ya'll can advice,
regards,
Laura
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