Hello, I have an 8 year old male (Mauremys Reevesii) and he is extremely restless during the night. Throughout the day he is basking and chilling but as soon it hits eight in the evening he is restless, swimming around the tank and hitting the glass of his tank with his shell. He makes a lot of noise and it wakes me up a lot during the night. Is there anything I can do to maybe stop this? I don't have a space outside of my room to put him and he makes a lot of noise.

I've had my red eared slider for 18 years got her when I was two and have a small ecosystem set up in her tank but I got a new job that requires me to travel for work and the place we just had to move into floors will break to the tank but she can't downsize she's too big and I just dont know what im going to do i but for these couple years of my life will be really difficult to keep her

This turtle shell and skeleton was found in a dried creek bed in Southern Indiana in late October. Does anyone know what species this was? I have photos of the bones we found including skull and mandible if that would help with ID. I didn't take it home, I just took photos of the shell and bones. Reddit won't let me add a photo directly to the post so the photo is in the comments

I work in a small town about 30 minutes south of Houston, Texas. I've worked there for more than ten years but starting this summer I started to see what iNaturalist identified as Chicken Turtles (hopefully that's correct) in the roadways just outside of campus. I've seen them there on a handful of occasions but prior to this year that had never happened at all. I was wondering if it might have something to do with ongoing construction of a new manufacturing plant closeby on what used to be farmland.

I have, of course, seen the humor in having to stop my car to get out and help a Chicken Turtle cross the road.

At the same time the turtles that used to frequent the man made ponds on my campus have mostly disappeared over the last three or four years. I'm not sure if those were Chicken Turtles as well as I never tried to identify the before.

Why does this happen, didn't It understand how repro works?

I have a RES. He has loose skin around his neck. I can see that it is a problem because he finds it difficult to walk with it. If the skin gets pulled when he walks, he opens his mouth. Also, to avoid this, he walks as if he’s bumping so as to maintain height to avoid contact of neck with the floor. Any suggestions?

I love when she just hangs onto the edge of her tank, it's very silly to me.

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I have a red eared slider. It is around 13-14 years old. Earlier, it used to be very active. He ran behind people sometimes, followed the people in the house. We usually kept him in a tank for sometime but mostly he used to stay outside.

It’s been sometime now and it has become very lazy. If I take him out of the water and put him somewhere, he will stay there for very long. Also when I put him in water, he doesn’t do anything, he just floats.

I need advice please help me. I’m attaching a picture for reference. P.S. this is not his tank, I just put him in this one for the picture.

im planning to move from north america to europe next year, i also have a rabbit which im looking to take carry on. i understand that turtles usually would have to go in cargo. ive been nervouse about putting a pet in cargo but after reading some people here say theyve done it im more open to this idea. does anyone know airlines that fly from north america to europe that definitely allow red ear slider turtles as of 2024?

Hi everyone!

I've recently adopted a yellow bellied slider but he's kind of chubby. He eats reptizoos pellets with mealworms, shrimp and cranberries, every other day. I usually let him eat until he's full, but I've not seen his weight improve.

Could anyone help me with how to better help my turtle lose the extra weight?

EDIT For context, he's about 5 inches long.

Can anyone recommend good-quality suction cups for rambunctious turtles? They are typical RES, always swimming and dancing around in their water, but no matter what, their filter pipes always fall off the glass and the suction cups just aren't doing their job anymore. I have used brand new ones, but even those didn't last. Any advice?

God bless!