I just got rescue a red ear slider from my dad friend months age because the owner don’t wanted it anymore and so I take the turtle and I will try to give her has best of a environment has I can give her! The turtle is 4 to 5 inches and right now the biggest tank I have for her is a 40 gallon aquarium. In the future I will upgrade that to a 75 gallon stock tank. And she doing good like she is eating food and I will spoil her and give her shrimp, fish, and carrots, and freeze bloodworm.
I keep mollies, platies, guppies and mosquito fish with my turtles. Where I live mosquito fish are native and they cold tolerant, I was doing some research and I seen that guppies and mosquito fish are in the same genus so my goal is to breed a colorful cold tolerant live bearer
as far as I remember, mosquitofish are in the same family as guppies but not the same genus. they could be genetically similar enough to successfully reproduce, but the offspring may be infertile. kinda like what happens with molly&guppy hybrids.
interesting my niece put a few guppies in with her turtles ( don't know the breed) within a few minutes they caught and ate them all, can't see them surviving once they get bigger
Can you do a video with your spotted turtles? Not a lot of videos with them in captivity. A lot in a sanctuary. I will be receiving a breeding group of three and just want some more info.
Moly got eaten by one of my RES. So only 2 of my RES in 30 cm*80 cm*30 cm tank. Considering to put 4 cm Chana Andrao in there. But thinking there will be a battle .
I’ve found a lot of success with keeping guppies with my slider. It started with a breathing project in a separate tank and I just eventually decided to put all the culls in the stock tank with my turtle not really expecting them to not get eaten but also kind a hoping they survived and now there’s a few hundred of relatively fancy guppies swimming with my red eared slider.
So that's a point I didn't make in the video. Never put fish you don't mind losing in with the turtles. Usually if the turtles let them live, you've got fun new pets!!
@@DanTheTurtleMan_ yeah I figured if they make it great and if they don’t it’s more ethical (or at least to me) that they would feed another creature rather than sitting in an overstocked tank.
That driftwood is awesome. Scuds creep me out! My baby musk turtle has platys in his 40 breeder, and my African sideneck has some guppies with her (and there are tons of babies I need to catch and put in my livebreeder pond though). Those ghost shrimp are pricey! They're like 15 cents at my LFS.
Ghost shrimp are in with the neocaridina at my lfs. $5 each- for any color!!!! In the late 80's, I paid $.10/ghost shrimp- no other shrimp available at all! You must have a great local breeder!
I have like an 8 inch red eared slider that I rescued. She was only like 5 inches when I got her. They gave her no HEATED basking spot, no uva or uvb, no place to get out of the water, ANd they only fed her once a month. So now I can't put ANYTHING in my tank without the turtle eating it. That includes live plants and fish. The tank looks awful imo cuz I can't put ANYTHING that's alive in the tank.
Fake plants can work wonders, some pieces of driftwood maybe, a sand bottom. That may look nice! Perhaps danios or a schooling fish in a larger tank, at least half should survive!
@@DanTheTurtleMan_ I def need some driftwood. Right now I have some fake plants and a sand bottom. I felt very bad for her with the spot she was in. I told them to keep EVERYTHING she was in I jus wanted the turtle and I bought everything new and how I want it. But all they had was a plastic small container a few rocks and a filter. I felt extremely bad for her. I def didn't realize how big red eared sliders get though.
@@MrsBJPalmer this is the nicest comment anyone has ever said to me on here! She came with a little baby painted turtle but unfortunately the baby didn't make it. He had MBD and I even brought him to an exotic vet and he still passed away. Ty so much for the kind words
Those baby's are cute! I keep neon tetras with my slider. Most of them (if not all), are still alive. I noticed that they are superduper fast so when my turtle is chasing them he's not able to catch them 😁
you need to take scissors and cut a little bit of the tail fins off of the neons. When you do that and put them back into the water, they have no speed at all, they just wiggle in the water and make easy prey for whatever
Why are you keeping animals if it seems like so many gross you out? There is Nothing disgusting about amphipods or mice. Why go to petco if you hate them? They have mail order if you dislike them so much.
Live mice don't really bother me, it's dead frozen mice that I dislike and my fears were only exacerbated when I opened the package and the pinky was a decayed slimy mess 😭😭😭 I had a ball python once, bought him some frozen mice and they were all slimy and nasty. When I tried to feed, he attacked it and the mouse exploded all over the tank. I'll clean turtle 💩 all day but rotten mouse carcass was tough 🤣 The amphipods I really didn't mind (when cleaning the filters they'd get on my hands allll the time), the population was just out of control and I didn't want them to be in such large numbers.
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I’m always that excited when I get fish
Found your channel today. So much great information! Been watching all afternoon.
Thanks Allen!!!
I just got rescue a red ear slider from my dad friend months age because the owner don’t wanted it anymore and so I take the turtle and I will try to give her has best of a environment has I can give her! The turtle is 4 to 5 inches and right now the biggest tank I have for her is a 40 gallon aquarium. In the future I will upgrade that to a 75 gallon stock tank. And she doing good like she is eating food and I will spoil her and give her shrimp, fish, and carrots, and freeze bloodworm.
I keep a bunch for rosey red minnows with my RES and he doesn't bother them. I got them specifically to clean up the insect larva.
If you took that driftwood from a pond or the plants is most likely were you got the scuds from. They eat algae also
I keep mollies, platies, guppies and mosquito fish with my turtles. Where I live mosquito fish are native and they cold tolerant, I was doing some research and I seen that guppies and mosquito fish are in the same genus so my goal is to breed a colorful cold tolerant live bearer
Please let me know when you succeed!!!
as far as I remember, mosquitofish are in the same family as guppies but not the same genus. they could be genetically similar enough to successfully reproduce, but the offspring may be infertile. kinda like what happens with molly&guppy hybrids.
interesting my niece put a few guppies in with her turtles ( don't know the breed) within a few minutes they caught and ate them all, can't see them surviving once they get bigger
Can you do a video with your spotted turtles? Not a lot of videos with them in captivity. A lot in a sanctuary. I will be receiving a breeding group of three and just want some more info.
Moly got eaten by one of my RES. So only 2 of my RES in 30 cm*80 cm*30 cm tank.
Considering to put 4 cm Chana Andrao in there. But thinking there will be a battle .
From where do you get those nasty aquatic bugs?
What species of turtles are those
Beard looking good Dan! 🔥
Ty I forgot to shave 🪒🤣
I’ve found a lot of success with keeping guppies with my slider. It started with a breathing project in a separate tank and I just eventually decided to put all the culls in the stock tank with my turtle not really expecting them to not get eaten but also kind a hoping they survived and now there’s a few hundred of relatively fancy guppies swimming with my red eared slider.
The trick is a big old bog filter and a lot of plants.
So that's a point I didn't make in the video. Never put fish you don't mind losing in with the turtles. Usually if the turtles let them live, you've got fun new pets!!
@@DanTheTurtleMan_ yeah I figured if they make it great and if they don’t it’s more ethical (or at least to me) that they would feed another creature rather than sitting in an overstocked tank.
@@DanTheTurtleMan_ also all my “pest” snails live in there and it’s awesome to see all these tiny snails
@@imakedumbstuff7272 bingo! That's what many keepers do. Live-bearers are a great source of food for turtles too
That driftwood is awesome. Scuds creep me out! My baby musk turtle has platys in his 40 breeder, and my African sideneck has some guppies with her (and there are tons of babies I need to catch and put in my livebreeder pond though). Those ghost shrimp are pricey! They're like 15 cents at my LFS.
Ghost shrimp are in with the neocaridina at my lfs. $5 each- for any color!!!! In the late 80's, I paid $.10/ghost shrimp- no other shrimp available at all! You must have a great local breeder!
I have like an 8 inch red eared slider that I rescued. She was only like 5 inches when I got her. They gave her no HEATED basking spot, no uva or uvb, no place to get out of the water, ANd they only fed her once a month. So now I can't put ANYTHING in my tank without the turtle eating it. That includes live plants and fish. The tank looks awful imo cuz I can't put ANYTHING that's alive in the tank.
Fake plants can work wonders, some pieces of driftwood maybe, a sand bottom. That may look nice! Perhaps danios or a schooling fish in a larger tank, at least half should survive!
@@DanTheTurtleMan_ I def need some driftwood. Right now I have some fake plants and a sand bottom. I felt very bad for her with the spot she was in. I told them to keep EVERYTHING she was in I jus wanted the turtle and I bought everything new and how I want it. But all they had was a plastic small container a few rocks and a filter. I felt extremely bad for her. I def didn't realize how big red eared sliders get though.
@@DanBid100 thanks for rescuing her! ❤
@@MrsBJPalmer this is the nicest comment anyone has ever said to me on here! She came with a little baby painted turtle but unfortunately the baby didn't make it. He had MBD and I even brought him to an exotic vet and he still passed away. Ty so much for the kind words
Those baby's are cute! I keep neon tetras with my slider. Most of them (if not all), are still alive. I noticed that they are superduper fast so when my turtle is chasing them he's not able to catch them 😁
you need to take scissors and cut a little bit of the tail fins off of the neons. When you do that and put them back into the water, they have no speed at all, they just wiggle in the water and make easy prey for whatever
Why are you keeping animals if it seems like so many gross you out? There is Nothing disgusting about amphipods or mice. Why go to petco if you hate them? They have mail order if you dislike them so much.
Live mice don't really bother me, it's dead frozen mice that I dislike and my fears were only exacerbated when I opened the package and the pinky was a decayed slimy mess 😭😭😭 I had a ball python once, bought him some frozen mice and they were all slimy and nasty. When I tried to feed, he attacked it and the mouse exploded all over the tank. I'll clean turtle 💩 all day but rotten mouse carcass was tough 🤣 The amphipods I really didn't mind (when cleaning the filters they'd get on my hands allll the time), the population was just out of control and I didn't want them to be in such large numbers.