I love my red ear slider 💕💕 ive trained her to climb onto my hand when i put my hand in the water so i can transport her to her feeding tank 💕💕 and i let her roam my house under my supervision. She also loves climbing!!
I've had both a Red Ear Slider and a Painted Turtle. Both are great pets and easy to tame but make sure you have a large water tank(bigger is better)UVB Lighting for basking out from the water and a water filter for the tank and your turtle/turtles will live for years 👍
So glad you asked. Whenever I had feeding time in her separate bin, I lead her into my hands to catch her by placing pellets near my hand (which was under water in a landing pad position) so I could grab her. Once I pick her up and place her in her feeding tub, I put my hand in the water again like a landing pad with a treat like floating near my wrist for her to get. So she has to be on top of my hand to get the treat! And so she becomes familiar with my hand giving her food. Over the next few feedings I gradually increase the amount of touch I give her on her belly and paws. Sneaking in touches and normalizing being handled. It might annoy her sometimes but I give her a treat so she ends up liking it and associating my hand with lots of reward. I place food where she has to float above my hand to eat it and I touch her little paws and flippers and belly lightly. They're SO soft I love them. Then in her tank I would do the same (but less because I don't want food in her tank.) I would dunk my hand in the water and make a little landing pad for her and feed her treats close to my hand ideally with my hand underneath. Now she comes up to my hand when dunk it in@Panda_Shortzz during the training process !neverrrr! give her a pellet of food treat unless I notice she is brave in approaching me and when my hand makes contact with her. So she associates her being on my hand with treats. Hopefully this answers your question. Let me know if you have ANY other questions abt this.
That’s great to hear! I had 2 but one of them sadly passed away earlier but I still have the other one 😢 It’s great to hear that your enjoying your time with it!
Your pond is beautiful!!! Love all the turtles swimming towards you !! So sweet ! Love the koi too! Loved the little one underwater who peeled out and said “ Hey” !! ❤️ ( had to go back to see some of your favorite turtles who passed … so sorry )
My partner and I moved in together this year and we're finally settled enough for him to bring down his turtles he was holding at his mom's house. I didn't know he had so many turtles!! 😳 Among them was a group of 8 red-eared sliders. Albinos, a carmel, a snow, and 3 triple het albino, carmel, anery. I didn't think I'd love them so much. But they're all just too adorable. We have them in a HUGE livestock water tank, where they're happy. Starting to train them to take food from my hands. Especially the albinos and snow since they can't see very well. Box turtles are also awesome. We have 3 three-toed box turtles that we're hoping to breed, as well as the red-eared sliders.
Looking at getting a turtle and still trying to figure out which to get. I like small species, but seriously, the idea of a huge corner setup with a watering tub would be awesome.
In the early 70s our dad used to take us hiking in the woods. He was an Eagle Scout as a Boy Scout. We saw a spotted turtle going through a brook, yellow spots, innCT. Haven’t seen one since until this video.
I know a RUclipsr in southeast Oklahoma who has a bunch of red ear slider turtles for free, he’s going to dispatch them if he can’t find homes, he doesn’t like them in his ponds, he’s also going to eat the snapping turtles , his channel is Eddy Family Farm , Brandon is his name
keeping water turtles is really really a lot of work. Keeping their water clean. I had 3 water turtles. i got them from ponds as hatchlings. one RES and 2 Eaatern Painted turtles. The one painted turtle was so small it would fit down the neck of a soda bottle. Probably would not have survived in the wild. they were ok till they got around 2 -3 inches. Even with a zoo med filter i still had to syphon off crud and about 1/3 of the water in a 20 gallon every other day. maybe i was feeding them too much. You also need a UV-B lamp so the turtles can metabolize calcium. Forget about sunlight coming through a window. Most window glass has UV blocker. If you want your turtles to see in color you will need a UV-A lamp as well. you can give them all the calcium you can w/o UV it's wasted. Get a mealworm colony going in some oatmeal, feed a whole fish, internals and all. NO HAMBURGER, too rich for them. also try lettuce and greens. IMO RES are mean turtles. Painted turtles are friendly turtles. one pond i went to I saw about 10 painted turtles playing follow the leader, all the dips and dives, turns the other painted turtles did following. A quarry i swim in there was a painted turtle playing with young boys. the turtle would appear at the surface a few feet away and the boys laughing would swim towards the turtle, at the last moment the turtle would disappear only to pop up in back of them they would turn laughing and the process started all over again.
i have the cutest most precious spotted turtle named quiddy and she is so sweet and ive had her a little over a year now, she loves eating from my hand and her brush baths every week. i love ur videos and they always inspire me to try even harder for my little girl. shes even friends w my cats!!
Thank you for teaching me how to take care 🪸🐢🪷🐚🪸 the best thing of my life. I will let Frank The have one for my birthday and thank you for teaching me how to take it.
In Maryland we cannot have Spotted or Diamond back Turtles. Box turtles only one. Down by Ocean city Md on the coastal Highway they have Big Signs along the highway about watching out for diamond backs crossing the road especially during breading when the adults come out of the bay and cross the roads around Fenwick to lay their eggs in the dunes then, the hatchlings cross back across the Highway. You can become a volunteer to assist the hatchlings get to the bay. you can do a map quest of Ocean city Md, coastal highway, then do a street level view and travel up the coastal highway outside of town ( Ocean City) to see the road signs. i have some turtle videos on my channel...they are mixed in with everything else so have to search.
Oh and Dan ( aka Dan the spider man) I have a red eared slider as well ( his name is Greenbean) if you want a medium sized slider I would go for a male because, females get bigger and if you want to tell out their genders look at the tale difference And love you Dan!
Yes, please consider adoption for res. All four of my red eared sliders were adopted from my local animal shelter. 😊 They always have res looking for homes.
My two terripins move around everything in their tanks and they hiss when I pick them up. My pink bellied side necks are very sweet , very calm, they come when I call their name. They seldom move their decor in their tanks. Funny how different they are. I keep my terripins in brackish water.
Thanks for the video! I have a Southern Painted which are the smallest of the painted turtles. So much personality and very friendly. Also have a map turtle. He is pretty small so easily lives in a 40 gallon.
I was originally going for a red ear slider but unfortunately since I’m moving to Spain, they require a license and I don’t want them to grow too big for me to take care for too.
I guess I watched this to late because I already got a musk turtle, but I still love him very much❤️idk if it’s a male or a female because he’s only 4 months old, I got him at Cats&critters, and when we got him he was very scared and did not want to come out of his shell.☹️ we put him in a small tank until we got him a new one, now he is going threw a shed and he gets so excited when I grabbed the mealworms and his pellets, I love him soooo much❤️
I have 2 read eared sliders. Both love each other and love me. Although im a 13 year old, they are living well and are healthy, but i can't really have a good enclosure for them
I have several rescue turtles: in the pond, 1 red eared 1 melanistic one, 2 painted, 1 Mississippi map ( in a tank), & four box turtles! I really like the diamondbacks & painted but hard to get! Thank you for your videos. Any word on the Lacey act bill? I hope we can all still get turtles shipped to us!
I once had 2 false Mississippi map turtles (1 male 1 female) and they were my First pet/s but i sadly gad to give Them away to a “Nature reserve kinda place were The guy that Owned The place had over 100 different turtle species (sry for my bad grammar i’m european😅)
Are those spotted turtles super skiddish? I'm temporarily hanging onto these baby red eared sliders that I ended up with and noticed they dart whenever they see me coming.
Musk turtles are fairly cheap, $30-125, spotted turtles $125 ish, terrapins for regular northerns are $75-100, painteds and maps are like $20-75! These are super rough estimates. Sliders you can get for free with patience
I’ve had two yellow belly sliders , 5red eared slider ,well actually 6including dribble go to my Carnell if wanna now who dribble is , anyways I’ve had a box turtle and I might get an albino red eared slider 🐢
Spotted turtle are too expensive.. they are like 300$ dollars … I wish they were cheap… instead I got a stinkpot turtle which was like 25$ dollars.. they so small
I have no idea how these animals. If I'm being examine then if my pet needs a new tank or something can I get some luck, I'm stuck figuring how come the internet has all these nice little setup. Should I just nam it AE86?
Different I have a red ear turtle and he loves me is winking at me I play with him I pick him up and he doesn't try to bite me he is so wonderful I love him he's my junior can you take care of God bless
I found this morning a baby turtle in my front door. I have NO clue what to do with it. I love her bc it's very cute but don't know nothing about turtles...any help? Thank you in advance ❤
Hello, my painted turtle Rickie does the same, he even reaches out to me and loves to be pulled thru the water. I was worried about his temperament growing up as he was born in the wild, we actually rescued him from a home living in a cake pan and being fed bread. We have Rickie now for 4 years and what a joy he is for us. Also, never bit once. Sue
Red Eared Sliders (females) get too big, are really messy and dirty, can be aggressive to each other and other turtles. I agree they should be No. 5. I love the look at Diamond Back terrapins but can't get them in my country :(. Box turtles are cute, but more difficult to make a half land and half water environment for the first time turtle owner. Mud and Musk are ugly looking to me. The best turtles I have kept are Chinese Golden Thread (Stripe neck) turtles. They have very tame, gently and friendly personalities, are not aggressive with each other, don't get too big, are really easy to care for, are have nice patterns on their bodies and nice coloured shells.
I love my red ear slider 💕💕 ive trained her to climb onto my hand when i put my hand in the water so i can transport her to her feeding tank 💕💕 and i let her roam my house under my supervision. She also loves climbing!!
That's the one I want lol thank you for motivating me even more to get one 🥰🥰🥰🥰
I've had both a Red Ear Slider and a Painted Turtle. Both are great pets and easy to tame but make sure you have a large water tank(bigger is better)UVB Lighting for basking out from the water and a water filter for the tank and your turtle/turtles will live for years 👍
Yeah my turtle just crawls to my hand 😊 I used to have a feeding tank for him but now we might use his current one as his new feeding tank
So glad you asked. Whenever I had feeding time in her separate bin, I lead her into my hands to catch her by placing pellets near my hand (which was under water in a landing pad position) so I could grab her. Once I pick her up and place her in her feeding tub, I put my hand in the water again like a landing pad with a treat like floating near my wrist for her to get. So she has to be on top of my hand to get the treat! And so she becomes familiar with my hand giving her food. Over the next few feedings I gradually increase the amount of touch I give her on her belly and paws. Sneaking in touches and normalizing being handled. It might annoy her sometimes but I give her a treat so she ends up liking it and associating my hand with lots of reward. I place food where she has to float above my hand to eat it and I touch her little paws and flippers and belly lightly. They're SO soft I love them. Then in her tank I would do the same (but less because I don't want food in her tank.) I would dunk my hand in the water and make a little landing pad for her and feed her treats close to my hand ideally with my hand underneath. Now she comes up to my hand when dunk it in@Panda_Shortzz during the training process !neverrrr! give her a pellet of food treat unless I notice she is brave in approaching me and when my hand makes contact with her. So she associates her being on my hand with treats. Hopefully this answers your question. Let me know if you have ANY other questions abt this.
That’s great to hear! I had 2 but one of them sadly passed away earlier but I still have the other one 😢
It’s great to hear that your enjoying your time with it!
I bought a baby Chinese Box Turtle after watching this video. Hopefully mine will grow big & healthy like your Otis 😃
THANK YOU DAN!!!! Your information is always so helpful! Your passion is contagious and so exciting!
Your pond is beautiful!!! Love all the turtles swimming towards you !! So sweet ! Love the koi too! Loved the little one underwater who peeled out and said “ Hey” !! ❤️ ( had to go back to see some of your favorite turtles who passed … so sorry )
Thank you for teaching me how to take care of a real life ❤❤❤❤🐢🪷🐚🪸 life turtle for my birthday. Thank you so much take care.
Would love a full in depth video on Spotted Turtles. Definitely my favorites of North American turtles
Will you do a video on Spotted turtles to make their tank a eco system with clean water?
two years ago i bought a mississippi map turtle and a chinese stripe-necked turtle! theyre adorable
Would love to see more husbandry videos on spotted turtles.
I can do that!
@DanTheTurtleMan_ Hello I'm interested in buying a beautiful turtle from you! I have a large 75 gallon aquarium for it!!
My partner and I moved in together this year and we're finally settled enough for him to bring down his turtles he was holding at his mom's house.
I didn't know he had so many turtles!! 😳
Among them was a group of 8 red-eared sliders. Albinos, a carmel, a snow, and 3 triple het albino, carmel, anery. I didn't think I'd love them so much. But they're all just too adorable. We have them in a HUGE livestock water tank, where they're happy. Starting to train them to take food from my hands. Especially the albinos and snow since they can't see very well.
Box turtles are also awesome. We have 3 three-toed box turtles that we're hoping to breed, as well as the red-eared sliders.
I’m obsessed with turtles thank you for making this videos🐢🐢🐢🩷🩷🩷
Looking at getting a turtle and still trying to figure out which to get. I like small species, but seriously, the idea of a huge corner setup with a watering tub would be awesome.
Luv u dan, u have helped me in my reptile journey so much!
Thank you! 💚
In the early 70s our dad used to take us hiking in the woods. He was an Eagle Scout as a Boy Scout. We saw a spotted turtle going through a brook, yellow spots, innCT. Haven’t seen one since until this video.
Can you talk about snappers? My snapper is probably 3-5 years old. Rescued. He has a pond. I am doing everything I can to make him comfortable.
Ive seriously done so much research on these guys Its not even funny, does urs let you pet his face too? My snapper is so so friendly for no reason🤣
My first turtle was a Spotted Turtle. He was a great pet. I love Box Turtles, here in North Carolina , the State Turtle is the Eastern Box Turtle.
Every time he picks one up I just think "Such a goofy little boi"
I have a red slider baby turtle !! I cant belive there is more people who love turtles and have them as pets 💕
I know a RUclipsr in southeast Oklahoma who has a bunch of red ear slider turtles for free, he’s going to dispatch them if he can’t find homes, he doesn’t like them in his ponds, he’s also going to eat the snapping turtles , his channel is Eddy Family Farm , Brandon is his name
keeping water turtles is really really a lot of work. Keeping their water clean. I had 3 water turtles. i got them from ponds as hatchlings. one RES and 2 Eaatern Painted turtles. The one painted turtle was so small it would fit down the neck of a soda bottle. Probably would not have survived in the wild. they were ok till they got around 2 -3 inches. Even with a zoo med filter i still had to syphon off crud and about 1/3 of the water in a 20 gallon every other day. maybe i was feeding them too much. You also need a UV-B lamp so the turtles can metabolize calcium. Forget about sunlight coming through a window. Most window glass has UV blocker. If you want your turtles to see in color you will need a UV-A lamp as well. you can give them all the calcium you can w/o UV it's wasted. Get a mealworm colony going in some oatmeal, feed a whole fish, internals and all. NO HAMBURGER, too rich for them. also try lettuce and greens. IMO RES are mean turtles. Painted turtles are friendly turtles. one pond i went to I saw about 10 painted turtles playing follow the leader, all the dips and dives, turns the other painted turtles did following. A quarry i swim in there was a painted turtle playing with young boys. the turtle would appear at the surface a few feet away and the boys laughing would swim towards the turtle, at the last moment the turtle would disappear only to pop up in back of them they would turn laughing and the process started all over again.
i have the cutest most precious spotted turtle named quiddy and she is so sweet and ive had her a little over a year now, she loves eating from my hand and her brush baths every week. i love ur videos and they always inspire me to try even harder for my little girl. shes even friends w my cats!!
Thank you for teaching me how to take care 🪸🐢🪷🐚🪸 the best thing of my life. I will let Frank The have one for my birthday and thank you for teaching me how to take it.
In Maryland we cannot have Spotted or Diamond back Turtles. Box turtles only one. Down by Ocean city Md on the coastal Highway they have Big Signs along the highway about watching out for diamond backs crossing the road especially during breading when the adults come out of the bay and cross the roads around Fenwick to lay their eggs in the dunes then, the hatchlings cross back across the Highway. You can become a volunteer to assist the hatchlings get to the bay. you can do a map quest of Ocean city Md, coastal highway, then do a street level view and travel up the coastal highway outside of town ( Ocean City) to see the road signs. i have some turtle videos on my channel...they are mixed in with everything else so have to search.
My spotted turtle is about 1.5 years now. They are definitely hard to beat when it comes to other pet turtles
Great list. Love the speices list, so many good species always hard to narrow it down. It is key though to pick the right species and dyor
Yall should look into Reeves Turtles. I got 2 and they are great. May not have the most colors, but they have a lot of personality and stay small.
after i get my turtle tomorrow on Saturday I will start saving up for hopefully to get more in the future, They seem like such good pets to have
I think snake neck turtles are cool pets, they don’t like being held but they love being played with. I know this because I have one, it’s so cute!
I might have to remove a red eat slider. Our neighbors moved and gave them to us. I didn't realize they get so big.
I had a red ear slider when I was a kid. I found mine when I went down to a pound it could fit in my hand when I first found him.
Oh and Dan ( aka Dan the spider man) I have a red eared slider as well ( his name is Greenbean) if you want a medium sized slider I would go for a male because, females get bigger and if you want to tell out their genders look at the tale difference
And love you Dan!
Wym “oh and” u never said anything before this comment lol
Very good point! Males of all of these species would be best unless going with a VERY large enclosure (125g or more)
@@JameGoFast27 for some, english isn’t their first language so just bare with it 👍
Yes, please consider adoption for res. All four of my red eared sliders were adopted from my local animal shelter. 😊 They always have res looking for homes.
My two terripins move around everything in their tanks and they hiss when I pick them up.
My pink bellied side necks are very sweet , very calm, they come when I call their name. They seldom move their decor in their tanks.
Funny how different they are.
I keep my terripins in brackish water.
Thanks for the video! I have a Southern Painted which are the smallest of the painted turtles. So much personality and very friendly. Also have a map turtle. He is pretty small so easily lives in a 40 gallon.
I was originally going for a red ear slider but unfortunately since I’m moving to Spain, they require a license and I don’t want them to grow too big for me to take care for too.
I love my painted turtle I have had him 45 years!❤
Wow that’s true friendship. Very happy for you.
What I love about turtles is that they live for a very long time]e and they also are very funny and curious. 😊😊😊
I guess I watched this to late because I already got a musk turtle, but I still love him very much❤️idk if it’s a male or a female because he’s only 4 months old, I got him at Cats&critters, and when we got him he was very scared and did not want to come out of his shell.☹️ we put him in a small tank until we got him a new one, now he is going threw a shed and he gets so excited when I grabbed the mealworms and his pellets, I love him soooo much❤️
Love your turtles ❤🐢 my family has a box turtle.. for 37yrs!!
What turtles are best for a started pet for a kid? And how do you find out if spotted turtles are legal in your state
Thank you that answers a lot of questions I had. You really know your stuff.
Thank you!
Hahaha love the ";)" savage! Lol
Can you take spotted turtles outside to walk and play a bit? And would spotted turtles be good in a 20 gallon tank
I have 2 read eared sliders. Both love each other and love me. Although im a 13 year old, they are living well and are healthy, but i can't really have a good enclosure for them
i got a diamond back terrapin of my own i love him :)
I have several rescue turtles: in the pond, 1 red eared 1 melanistic one, 2 painted, 1 Mississippi map ( in a tank), & four box turtles! I really like the diamondbacks & painted but hard to get! Thank you for your videos. Any word on the Lacey act bill? I hope we can all still get turtles shipped to us!
What kind of plants do you have in your external enclosure? I would like to know the size of your external enclosure too
I would recommend painted turtles over Red eared sliders cuz they don't get that big
I love beautiful spotted turtles, I always lobe turtles for long time!😅🐢🐢❤
Wow dude your subs dit make a jump out of nowhere. or am i crazy 😂 anyways you really deserve it bro.hope you get the 50k soon.💪🏻🐢
we love you dan your vids are so helpful
I bet Turpin comes in number 1… saying that seeing #5 being red eared sliders… they are very dirty in aquariums for sure!
Spotted turtle…. I was way off! Handsome little guy :)
They tear up plants and are very greedy but I love them so much
finally a turtle tier list
I once had 2 false Mississippi map turtles (1 male 1 female) and they were my First pet/s but i sadly gad to give Them away to a “Nature reserve kinda place were The guy that Owned The place had over 100 different turtle species (sry for my bad grammar i’m european😅)
What about African sideneck they’re so cute 😊
I love my red ear slider i feed him evd and he makes the ❤ sound
Are those spotted turtles super skiddish? I'm temporarily hanging onto these baby red eared sliders that I ended up with and noticed they dart whenever they see me coming.
I have a Mississippi map, it’s a girl, I was really hoping for a not bc of the size but we’ll just have to make adjustments as she grows.
Hi Dan! This video was very helpful! could you possibly help me find a spotted turtle? i trust you and am not having much luck
Do you bread the diamondback terrapins? Also is there a certain name for the orange one with the spikes you picked up first?
Hii thanks for the vid i might be getting one soon
My box turtle loves grubs! Crunchy outside with a creamy center! Yum!
Cool ty. About how much do each of these species cost? I'm brand new to your channel and love it.
Musk turtles are fairly cheap, $30-125, spotted turtles $125 ish, terrapins for regular northerns are $75-100, painteds and maps are like $20-75! These are super rough estimates. Sliders you can get for free with patience
@@DanTheTurtleMan_ Woow, it's way less expensive than in China.
I love red ear sliders
Can softshell turtles be in the same aquarium as mollies?
Man, I wish I could've gotten a diamondback terrapin, but its hard to find online that ships to the UAE, so I am getting a red ear slider
Would a diamond back be a good tank mate with a false map?
I’ve had two yellow belly sliders , 5red eared slider ,well actually 6including dribble go to my Carnell if wanna now who dribble is , anyways I’ve had a box turtle and I might get an albino red eared slider 🐢
My mom loves turtles, we had two Red Sliders, one died and we released the other
Dan…where have you been all my life? I like turtles too
I really hate when they try to charge for a baby BDT more that 700 when you are a reputable breeder and never see those #
Post a video on what turtle's need.I LOVE you I'm IN KENTUCKY ❤ Chanel ❤you
Looking to get turtles for my 8 year old twins . Which turtles won’t get too big and great pets ?
Spotted turtle are too expensive.. they are like 300$ dollars … I wish they were cheap… instead I got a stinkpot turtle which was like 25$ dollars.. they so small
Ur turtles are so cute I just saw a clip of dragon fruit and I love her and what your doin
I love your videos!
@DanTheTurtleMan do u sell the diamond back turtle in California?
What’s the difference between red sliders n yellow belly sliders??
Chinese golden thread tutrles son , the future of cute turtles that grow big. My yellow blotched map turtle is huge are you sure ?
Love your videos
The Fortunate Son killed me
I have no idea how these animals. If I'm being examine then if my pet needs a new tank or something can I get some luck, I'm stuck figuring how come the internet has all these nice little setup. Should I just nam it AE86?
what about river cooters? i have one and am new to the turtle community
My under 1 yr old red eared slider’s name is Hermel. Just FYI.
Dan, do the Terrapin’s do good alone or do they need company?
They do just fine alone!
I have a red eard turtle it's his birthday and his birthday is July 16 he is a great little turtle his name is Raphael
Different I have a red ear turtle and he loves me is winking at me I play with him I pick him up and he doesn't try to bite me he is so wonderful I love him he's my junior can you take care of God bless
I found this morning a baby turtle in my front door. I have NO clue what to do with it. I love her bc it's very cute but don't know nothing about turtles...any help? Thank you in advance ❤
Hello, my painted turtle Rickie does the same, he even reaches out to me and loves to be pulled thru the water. I was worried about his temperament growing up as he was born in the wild, we actually rescued him from a home living in a cake pan and being fed bread. We have Rickie now for 4 years and what a joy he is for us. Also, never bit once.
Sue
which turtles can stand cold weather?
Red Eared Sliders (females) get too big, are really messy and dirty, can be aggressive to each other and other turtles. I agree they should be No. 5. I love the look at Diamond Back terrapins but can't get them in my country :(. Box turtles are cute, but more difficult to make a half land and half water environment for the first time turtle owner. Mud and Musk are ugly looking to me. The best turtles I have kept are Chinese Golden Thread (Stripe neck) turtles. They have very tame, gently and friendly personalities, are not aggressive with each other, don't get too big, are really easy to care for, are have nice patterns on their bodies and nice coloured shells.
I wish I had some diamondback terrapins but they’re selling for $4000usd from where I’m from
i had a loving red ear but she died :( but then 2 years later i got a yellow belly
7:44 I’ve seen 10-12in painted turtles in the wild
I’ve seen several last year even bigger. Got some video and pictures of them I need to dig them pics up
I had a red foot tortoise that passed away 😢
Do you have a fair price range for these kinds of turtles
Where is the best place to buy box turtles?
I ❤ turtles
i’m from pa do you know where i can get a spotted turtle for my son
Can i keep a box turtle indoors?
The only problem about terrapins are how they start at $300