I have had turtles for many years and have quite a few right now(around 25) But I have been reading some books and it says to not mix species at all. I always though it was okay to keep species from the same areas together. Right now I have some 2 Maps, 10 Red Ear Sliders(5 pastel, 5 normal) 1 Southern Painted, 1 Musk, 1 Penn. Cooter, 3 common snappers, 1 Flordia Snapper, 3 Hypo Common Snappers, 1 Alligator Snapper. So all of my turtles are north american species and all are captive breed by breeders. I have all the snapping turtles seperate and then the other turtles are just basically divided up by size with species inter-mixed. Do you think this is fine? Or should I seperate them by species? Or whats species are okay to live together. They are not over crowded as I have 4 Medium Waterland Tubs, 1 custom build 220 gallon indoor pond, 1 65 gallon indoor pond, 1 90 gallon indoor pond, 1 170 gallon outdoor pond, 1 55 gallon tank, 1 75 gallon tank and 1 40 gallon tank and then a 20 and 29 gallon unused as well. So around 1000 gallons of living space for them. So if I need to serperate some thats not an issure. I just want to make sure I am doing everything right and that I keep everyone with who they belong and everything. Please let me know if I am doing anything wrong and what need to be corrected.

I know this is long and I tend to rant on here or there, just dont know exactly what to say/ask.

Thanks,
Mitch

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