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Southern Painted HELP!

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Posted by: rockagibraltar at Sun Apr 29 22:39:49 2007  [ Report Abuse ] [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by rockagibraltar ]  
   

I am very good with aquatic turtles until now. I have a small pond and every couple of years I will get 1 or 2 new turtles raise them until they are big enough to go into it.



I recently got 2 southern painted turtles. This is my first experience with southern painted turtles, however I have had great success with eastern painted turtles.



The problem is, these guys only want to be on the rock in their tank, and they barley eat. When I put them in the water, they just kind of float there until they decide to swim back to the rock and climb out. I am feeding the brine & turtle sticks right now. I have a plant bulb over the tank. I know this is not normal behavior and if I don't do something quick I will lose them.



Any advice would be greatly appreciated.


   

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