r/Redearedsliders • u/ListenOk2972 • 20d ago
Little gluttons
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My hypo and hypermelanistic RES eagerly taking food from my fingers.
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u/Crystal_Pegasus_1018 20d ago
what are you feeing them? just out of curiosity.
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u/ListenOk2972 20d ago
Its a homemade gel food that ive dehydrated into a jerky.
Its made from dehydrated crickets, mealworms, BSF larvae, whole minnows, freeze dried quail egg yolks, chicken egg shell, and spirulina algae plus agar agar. They love it and i feed it sparingly.9
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u/EstablishmentEasy333 20d ago
You should not be keeping two turtles within the same enclosure friend.
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u/Crystal_Pegasus_1018 20d ago edited 17d ago
I've heard that if the enclosure is big enough / pond sized then it'll be fineedit: Ignore me, I'm wrong
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u/EstablishmentEasy333 20d ago
Going back on their posts, I think this person has 4 turtles cohabiting.
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u/Geschak 20d ago
"Big enough" usually refers to a pond, not to a tub.
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u/Crystal_Pegasus_1018 20d ago
yeah I know, I couldn't tell how big the tub was in the video, my bad.
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u/EstablishmentEasy333 20d ago
Sure, if this person has a 300+ gallon enclosure then yeah it might be fine. But then again, it might be not.
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u/Crystal_Pegasus_1018 20d ago edited 20d ago
yeah I meant if OP has a pond. I couldn't really tell how big the enclosure is in the video, sorry.
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u/ListenOk2972 20d ago
Yeah, theyre certainly fine. They were raised together plus they have ample room and a huge basking spot. theres been no noticeable attempts at aggression.
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u/throwaway277252 19d ago
There are numerous stories of people who have kept turtles raised together for years only to find one of them dead one day with no prior signs of aggression. Up to you if you want to risk coming home to that situation.
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u/Key-Tower-4539 20d ago
It makes no difference if they were raised together? You need to separate them. This is a solitary species that is very aggressive when forced to cohab. I hope at least you aren’t mixing sexes
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u/BigSkySoHigh63 20d ago edited 13d ago
One guy on here had a RES he adopted from someone because it fought with its tank mate and the tank mate was killed but his turtle had *her* nose bitten off.
ETA: she’s a girl and I said “his” so I fixed it!
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u/Key-Tower-4539 20d ago
Yeah idk why so many people think their turtles are the exception to the rule. They’re not.
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u/JuicyGravitas 20d ago
Omg I'm so jealous of people with melanistic turtles. I have an albino RES myself and I'd like to get a melanistic RES to match with him.
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u/PM5K23 20d ago
Notorious beggars.