Thanks for your advice, I am not sure of their age but we have had them 9 months and they have not grown more than half an inch in that time.

We bought these turtles not realising all that was required, we followed the advice of the man in the pet shop, which has obviously been a load of rubbish. He lead us to believe it was really just a matter of putting them in the tank and feeding them. Which after a week or so we realised was wrong when I found a site where a man gave advice on how to care for turtles, the advice given has been what I have been doing since. He seems to also not know exactly what he is doing. I can not believe we have been caring for them wrong all this time, we are gonna get this all sorted this weekend. They do have a heat bulb which keeps the air temp between 80 to 90 but we do not have a water heater as the water is usually around 75. And they have a UVB strip bulb, these are both above their basking rock. We do replace some water each week and clean out each month and the filter keeps the water nice and clean.

By the sound of it we have not been feeding them right, the dry food we give them is King British Turtle and Terrapin complete food, and like I said they also get fish/prawns and some lettuce or fruit (usually apple).

Thanks for the link, I am so glad that my concerns of their lack of growth has made me investigate into their care. I just feel guilty that I never looked into this further before, we just assumed that first web page we read all those months ago was right.

They do seem happy and healthy, they bask with their heads and feet turned up to the lights and they swim about and play around in the water. They also eat well and I assumed they were getting enough as they never finish what food we give them and thought they wouldn't stop eating unless they were full. But I guess there is a difference in being full and getting the right types of food and vitamns.

So hopefully if we change what we are feeding them and take on your advice and the previous advice they will start to thrive more.

We also had planned to get a new tank and have been keeping our eye out, although we had thought there was no rush, we thought what they had was enough for now, so we will also be getting a new tank asap...hopefully we find a good second hand one.

Basically we need a bigger tank and to change what we feed them....is this all we need to do? Should we feed them every day or is every other day ok like we have been doing.

Thanks again, I am so glad we can now get things sorted as they really are the best wee turtles and such fun. PS they are called Terri and Torres.