r/turtles

No para de intentar rascarse contra la roca ! Se la ve desesperada , tanto que la saque del agua y la he rascado yo y se ha dejado cosa que siempre intenta huir … esta vez no .
Debo preocuparme ? Llevarla al veterinario ??

He is very friendly and not scared of me at all which makes me think he is an abandoned pet.
UPDATE: He was released. Thank you for the help!

I got him , and two others who are no longer with us, in 1996 when he was not much bigger than a half dollar.

My family has two turtles. My parents want to make them a sort of pond in the area depicted in the second picture. I would like to know what I can do to make them a comfortable habitat that would minimize maintenance since they are not my turtles and I know their “owner” is a child and probably won’t do too much on their own. I’m not entirely sure how wide I can make it as it needs to be fenced off as we have dogs as well. I’ve also never dug a pond before so any information about that would be nice however as this isn’t a pond digging Reddit I’m mostly asking about requirements to be met for the turtles wellbeing.

Edit: I’m also not entirely sure what kind of turtles they are unfortunately…

Hi, I wanted to know if any of you could help me to know what caused this marks on my turtle, she's a red-eared slider, she's 5-6 years old and she recently had been in those months where she is destroying my garden digging and making holes to lay her eggs, infertile btw, and a few days ago she appeared with these, I thought maybe it was just dirt from her digging but it wasn't getting off and it seems like it hurts when I touch it, I think she hit a rock or something while she was digging and It doesn't seem like an attack to me, I have two cats but they're pretty chill with her and get along well, so i don't wanna think it's them, in the photo looks like it's almost healed I think? well, if you could help8 me to know what can I do to help her, thanks.

Saw this beautiful sea turtle in West Central Florida today and was very surprised to have come across them in a spring fed river at the spring head. Anyone recognize this species or have any idea why the sea turtle would be so far inshore at a spring?

Found in a pond in New York with abandoned red eared sliders.

The leaf like projections are throwing me.

I took this picture in Cape May, NJ!

Post got removed from r/turtle so hopefully yall can help asap cuz the turtle might move

Update: I brought it to a rehabber and they said they aren’t sure they can save it but they’ll try so im hoping for the best. Thank you for your help everyone

My 13 year old common musk turtle despises skimmers with all his being. He has broken 6 of them in various ways. This time his strategy is to bite the wire coming from the bottom and will go at it for hours if I let him. I take it out of the water when its not in use but he has still managed to expose some of the copper wire inside the casing. Is this skimmer done for (again)? Or can this be fixed? Also if there's any ideas on stopping this behavior I would love to hear it.

I’ve been telling people around me that when I go fishing at one of my local ponds in Southeast Michigan, USA, there is this family of large snapping turtles that scare the jeebus out of me every time, by sneaking up on me while I’m fishing. They all laugh at me and think I’m messing around. Well today, I finally managed to get a video of one of the smaller ones of the bunch. Just the Freddy Kruger fingers are scary enough for me lol. Sorry no banana for scale 😂

I have a musk turtle and am putting him in a new tank and want to have a natural looking basking platform like this but all the ones I can find are plain rocks or glass boxes. Any recommendations are appreciated!!

Hello I'm 18 and seeking advice because I'm soon moving out of my mom's house for studies but I was used to taking care of the two earth turtles for the past month.

Basically a friend of my mother stopped caring about his turtles and gave them to us without our consent. I don't know their age or which species they are. The only thing I know is that the bigger one is a female and the smallest one a male.

They are very tiny compared to the turtles I'm used to see. The cage he gave us is very small and the turtles always try to get out but my mom doesn't want to let them roam free in the house. Nobody we know wants to take them.

What am I supposed to do?

Ok, so a relative of mine suddenly received two red eared sliders a few days ago, but through some circumstances I’m now the one taking caring of them. You guys helped me ID them a few days ago and now I need your help again. So my mom got this tank for them in a pinch and I tried my best to make it work. I won’t have money for a week or two to get anything else but I did get them a basking platform and the right food. After I filled the tank up (once I cleaned it of course), I noticed that it has a small leak in the drain circle. My questions are as follows

1. How would I fix this? I put an inverted shot glass on top with a rock to weigh it down, but it still leaks. Granted at a slower pace, but leaks nonetheless. I can’t afford a new tank till the end of the month.

2. How is this set up? I can’t afford a filter yet so how often should I clean out the tank and change the water?

3. I don’t have a means to generate heat for them outside of the lamp that came with it, any tips?

4. Lastly, any advice in general would help. I plan on getting them all the stuff and things they need once I have the money in a week or so, but I’m trying my best with what I got till then. These turtles came into my life as a complete surprise and it’s been stressful trying to give them the highest quality of life I can with so little.

I love them so much and I’m very passionate about being the best owner I can. Thank you so much and apologies for such a long post. Pictures attached are my set up and the tank/drain I’m talking about. Thanks again!

My son and husband seem keen to keep it, I am against. Any ideas on ID? Just take it back to the nearest ditch or pond? Don’t want to traumatize the little guy anymore than it’s already been. Thank you!

Moved tank across house and the water seems super cloudy, adding and removing around 15 Gallons every other day and cleaning filter Once or twice a day, anything else i can be doing? I have two 6 1/2 year old turtles, a Painted and a Map.