My wife coworker recently had a parent pass away who had been keeping a yellow slider and a red eared slider in a shallow tote with no light other then whatever room they were in. I have no idea of their age. They’re both prolly 4” shell length, they now have a temporary set up of a 37 gallon tank and a heat and UVB lamp. The yellow slider has something going on with its foot and seems to be swollen under its shell. I’ll try to find how to post pictures. We have experience with aquatic animals but never turtles. Any help or advice would be GREATLY appreciated.

Does anyone know if I'm able to use mazuri herbivore pellet or herbivore pellet for turtles?

i wanna get a houseplant for my room (not for the tank) but my tank is also in here. are there any houseplants known to release anything toxic or anything that would affect turtles?? probably a long shot asking here as it's a pretty specific question, but if anybody knows anything or has any specific recommendations i'd greatly appreciate it

I am building an above tank basking spot for my Red Eared Slider. Its going to sit on top of my tank so i can add a little more depth for the turtle as he grows. (Only slightly bigger than a half dollar right now). My design will have a platform for basking leaving ~2in in height between the water level and the flat portion of the platform.

For the ramp that hell crawl up to bask, what material would be best. I imagine wood would rot, but i think it would look far better than plastic. Does anyone have ideas?

I have a RES and he’s fairly old (I’m 20 and I got him when I was 4 and he was already somewhat grown) and I have a year left in college and then am probably moving somewhere with my girlfriend most likely out of state. Knock on wood but he’s never had health issues and shows no signs of growing old any time soon. He is very social and needs attention so I don’t want to leave him to my family in his later years bc he’s always been my pet not theirs. Does anyone have any tips for safe transport especially if it was more then just a days journey. I don’t just wanna put him in a box with holes and I would be willing to set up temporary mini tanks for nught stops if possible. If anyone has done something similar let me know I don’t want him to stress over the journey

Hello, I just discovered there was a stupid angle between my ramp and my filter (moved them apart from each other now) where my turtle managed to get stuck. I noticed this almost immediately. It stayed upside down with its head in the water for what I assume to be 15 seconds.

Do you think it'll be ok? It was very scared but still ate afterwards. Is there any change water got in its lungs? Is there any way to check at home?

(2.5year old chinese golden thread, 2.3 in shell length)

Im making an indoor ‘pond’ for my Yellow belly slider with one of those pond liners. It’s going to be about 150 gallons but I’m not sure of what type of filter would be the best for it.

Right now my baby red slider is in a 20 gallon (only filled to 10 so a 10g). I just measured him yesterday and he’s already grown 🥺🥺. He was less than an inch and is now an inch and a half. He’s gonna be two months this month. I bought him a 150 gallon so I can get it set up and stuff. I’m sure he probably won’t get in there until he’s at least a year, but what do you guys think?