I recently found a baby painted turtle in my yard (about the size of a quarter), and seeing as that we are some distance from a river or pond, decided I would keep it. I got online and found lots of information about eating and tank setup.

The turtle seems to be thriving in its new home, he's gotten bigger in the last few months, and he is now about 2 inches long, but I recently noticed something hanging from his skin. Around his legs and head he has this white/clear-ish skin-like stuff hanging from him. Knowing that snakes shed their skin to grow, I wondered if maybe this is why the skin-like material has appeared. But I wanted to make sure it wasn't something else maybe due to not being in a natural habitat and not getting a regular diet (being so young we were advised to feed him the turtle sticks and lettuce).

Do I need to diversify his diet with some feeder fish, and maybe some different types of fishing worms?

Help me out,
Jordan Worley
jhworley@purdue.edu

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