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These are my favorite species of mud turtle. I just got a pair last week. How warm do they need to be? I've had striped and eastern muds before but I believe the Florida muds need to be a bit warmer. Should I provide a land area?

thanks

Floridas are asubspecies of easterns so basicly same care yeah you can have some land but it might not get used often.

Yea one was basking on a piece of driftwood under the heat lamp today.

Watch them closely...it might indeed be basking, but it can also be escape behavior: a way to get away from the other ones aggression. These animals can be pretty aggressive to each other, in which case you'd want to separate them and only keep them together under supervision for breeding.

I have a pair together right now. It may have been the male who was out of water I didnt pay close enough attention to tell.

I also have a pair of loggerheads together and never observed agresssion in them.

He's not saying it has to be aggression he's saying to watch & make sure it isn't aggression. I have loggerheads, razorbacks,salvinii,yellow muds, white lips muds, stripe neck musk & stinkpots. So it is a case by case situation.

Gotcha. So should I put an underwater heater in for them? right now I have a basking light.