Turtles

My little brother has recently aquired two pet turtles, they are kept in a very similar way as tropical fish so are very easy to care for and are a lot more fun than fish as they interact with you more. My little brothers are two baby map turtles, sized around the same size as a 50p piece and cost £20 each from a pet shop. They are kept in a fish tank which is 3 foot long by 1 foot high by 1 foot deep, they have gravel in the bottom of the tank, rocks at one side to climb out and have a basking light above this for a heat source and a uv light, the water is heated to tropical temperatures and they are fed twice a day as babies on a pellet food which ...  Read the complete review

Turtles are amazing and facinating creatures - I'm sure that many of you have seen giant Sea Turtles on nature programmes and would agree that they look incredibly serene and calm. I am the proud owner of a Mississippi Map Turtle called Bruce. We decided to buy Bruce after looking around our local Seapets centre and seeing how cute the turtles looked. As we live in an upstairs flat with no garden, we were unable to get a Cat or Dog as a pet as this would be unfair on them, so a turtle seemed to be a fantastic compromise, as they seemed to have a lot more personality than a fish, but could be kept in a tank! Having looked into it a bit further, we ...  Read the complete review

We have rehomed quite a variety of turtles over the years, cooters, red eard sliders, yellow bellies, maps, side necks,mr and mrs tim our marsh turtles but it is ali my florider snapping turtle i realy want to tell you about. Ali as we called him because i first thought he was an aligator snapping turtle untill i found he didnt have a worm on his tongue came to us 4 years ago after being rescued by the rspca from a house where he was being kept in a plastic storage box. When the rspca phoned me they said they had just rscued a marsh turtle would i take him, no worries i thought just like tim but when it actally arrived and i opened the box i nearly ...  Read the complete review

I used to raise a turtle for some years. I don't know how it is now. My mum gave it to a kid coming to our home because she liked the turtle so much and didn't want to go home without it! Therefore, through the love for my turtle of a kid, you can judge the adorable level of this creature by yourself. There are pros and cons when raising any kind of pets. What I like from a turtle is that it doesn't bark every time a guest coming to our home like a dog, or call its lover continuously at night like a cat. A turtle and a goldfish follow the same principle: silence is gold. My turtle lives mostly underwater though it can walk on the ground as well. Raising a ...  Read the complete review

Turtle are execting to watch and to learn about them. Turtltes are small and slow but beatiful from some eyes. I had a turtle onces it was great. I used to watch him swim around in the water tank adn i used to put it on my hand it was funny. I had a golden in with him he killed the golden fish thats we had to give him away it was sad. If i had chance to keep one again i will do it. It is not waste of time or ...  Read the complete review