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Turtle Colds: Symptoms and Treatment
More people keep turtles as pets now. They are easy to keep but do get sick, and colds are common, so owners should know how to treat one. Here are the symptoms and treatments.
What Causes Scabies (Abscess) Disease in Turtles?
The pathogen of turtle scabies is a subspecies of Aeromonas hydrophila, normally present in water and on the turtle's skin and gut. Turtles usually carry it without symptoms, but once water is polluted or the body is wounded, the bacteria multiply and cause disease. This article covers the symptoms, causes and prevention of turtle scabies.
What Environment Suits a Pet Turtle?
Turtles are semi-aquatic, cold-blooded animals that breathe with lungs and live in lakes, ponds and rivers — active and feeding in water by day, foraging on shore at night, and very timid. Below 10°C they hibernate in mud or burrows until water rises above 15°C in April. They eat a wide diet (feed about 5% of body weight), and their color shifts with the habitat as natural camouflage.
What to Do If Your Turtle Is Timid and Afraid of People (Training Tips)
A big joy of pet keeping is interaction, but some turtles are so timid they hide in a corner at the slightest approach, retracting head and limbs the moment you hold them. What can you do? Here is how to train a turtle that fears people.
Caring for a Brazilian Turtle (Red-Eared Slider)
The Brazilian turtle (red-eared slider) is hardy but needs the right setup to stay healthy and live long. Choose a turtle at least six months old, house it in a covered tank with water at about 25°C, always feed it in the water, and manage a proper hibernation and breeding routine.
How to Care for a Money Turtle (Three-lined Box Turtle)
Money turtles need a warm, sheltered pond with sandy substrate, shade plants, and a basking island, plus clean water kept at 24°C+ and a varied omnivorous diet. Separate turtles by size to prevent cannibalism, and protect them from cold and summer heat stroke during hibernation.
How to Care for a Pet Turtle
Keeping a turtle alive starts with choosing a healthy, active individual, then setting up a proper tank with a basking spot, stable warm water (23–28°C), and clean filtered water. Feed a balanced diet on a fixed schedule and you will give your turtle the best chance at a long, healthy life.
How to Care for Pet Turtles: Feeding and Husbandry
Choose food by species—most turtles are omnivorous but vary in preference—and feed in water every 3–5 days, clearing leftovers to protect water quality. Set up the tank by type (land, semi-aquatic, aquatic), use sunned tap water, add pebbles and plants, keep temperature near 25°C, and watch water quality and hibernation.
How should a beginner keep a grass turtle?
Prepare a tank with sand and water just over the shell; add a basking rock for calcium. Change 1/3-1/2 water regularly. Feed corn, snails, pellets; no salted food to avoid edema.
What to Do When a Turtle Won’t Eat
A turtle that refuses food is usually reacting to a poor habitat, bland diet, or wrong water temperature rather than true hunger. Restore its appetite by mimicking a natural setup, offering scented meaty foods, and keeping water at 22–25°C, while ruling out illness and avoiding salty or parasite-risky feeds.