couple of my turts

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Nice!!!!

Nice setup and turtles dude. How big is that tank? Looks around 90gal.

its dudette ;) only a 55 gallon actually. ive got about 4 turtle tanks going right now... my reg. pond turtles. my snapper tank. my rescue male spotted turtle (missing half a leg) and my two small female spotteds who have two of the tiniest musk turtles living with them

Is there any concern in keeping the musks with other turtles as they get bigger? They get pretty mean, no? (I've never had one but I'm under this impression.)

they arent even the size of a quarter right now. so at this time absolutely no worry. and i plan to seperate them once they get bigger. but ty!

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its dudette ;) only a 55 gallon actually...

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Sorry, got excited...:oops:

Wow, a 55. The pic makes it look deeper front to back. Four turtle tanks are nice. I have a 125gal and a 75gal myself with 2 RES and a west african mud.

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Originally Posted by dkspftw

Is there any concern in keeping the musks with other turtles as they get bigger? They get pretty mean, no? (I've never had one but I'm under this impression.)

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There shouldn't be a problem, they stay relatively small(4-5 inches) along with maps and a few others. If you grow them together from babies, there shouldn't be territory problems between them. If you were to mix adults or a slider and painted in with the little guys then you may see some territory aggresion. I've seen a few tanks with a nice mix of different pond turtles and believe someone on this forum has a nice setup with a mix.

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Sorry, got excited...:oops:


There shouldn't be a problem, they stay relatively small(4-5 inches) along with maps and a few others. If you grow them together from babies, there shouldn't be territory problems between them. If you were to mix adults or a slider and painted in with the little guys then you may see some territory aggresion. I've seen a few tanks with a nice mix of different pond turtles and believe someone on this forum has a nice setup with a mix.

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Ah ok. Come to think of it, when I was doing research for building my swamp I think I looked into giant mexican musk turtles, which, from the name, are probably bigger, haha.

I've got a 220g with a reimanni snakeneck in it! And a 60g frag I converted for a trio of g. spengleri.

2 more turtle people BP.net which I didn't know about, I love this thread. :love: ;)


Ps- any pics of your swamp and 220g? :D

haha i know! i didnt expect to find turtle people on here! im actually more into my turtles but shhh dont tell anyone. when i rescued my first two turtles i didnt realize how much work they are and how expensive haha its prolly just those darn UVB lights -_-

I used to keep MANY turtles when I was younger. Pinkbelly sidenecks, African sidenecks, yellow mud, eastern mud, stinkpots, alligator and common snappers, eastern painted, RES, cooters, Florida and spiny soft shelled, and spotted turtles. I have no turtles now since I moved out of my moms and started breeding snakes five years ago. But I am always want to keep them again someday. The African sidenecks and the spotted turtles were my favorites.

^^ that is a wonderous variety. :gj:

Used to be a turtle guy until I caught the snake bug. Now I'm a snake guy with an underlying love for shelled cuteness.

I had an African sideneck paired with my WA mud turtle. Took me years to find out what she was cause she was sold as a sideneck but had features of a box turtle that loved water. A friend of mine had a hybrid eastern box mixed with a southern painted(I think) which turned into a box turtle that loved to be underwater for hours on end. So I thought that's what my girl was until the gem of information fell into my lap of what she really was. When she looks out at me from under her underwater branch, I tilt my head a little and smile at the cuteness. :)

i love spotteds!!! but are illegal here to keep. <.< >.>

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^^ that is a wonderous variety. :gj:

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Thats from when I was maybe five years old catching local turtles until I was a teen. I had a lot of different reptiles at one point.

thats all i do in the spring/summer months. i either go fishing or go turtle and snake hunting and frog catching :)

Used to have to drive for what felt like forever to go fishing, but there were always frogs in the ally during the summer. I'd always catch one and keep it overnight and it would "magically" get out by morning.

"magically" lol:P