Since there is no way of knowing which turtles carry the salmonella disease, you must wash your hands after handling them. Since you may have children around your turtle, you must supervise your children so that they don’t put us in their mouth. (Scares us turtles just thinking about it!) Make sure they wash their hands after handling or touching a turtle.
Depending on what kind of turtle you have, you need to make sure we have the proper environment. It is critical that we get our daily needs such as food, lighting, and vitamins. Although we like to be dirty, our tank needs to be clean so that we don’t get sick or diseased.
It is legal to own or buy turtles under 4 inches in length, but it is illegal to commercially sell them. NOTE: It is illegal to commercially or for breeders to sell turtles over 4 inches in length!
When water turtles are young they are mainly feed on other animals. One of our favorite treats is cooked chicken! We also eaten tuna, feeder fish, a gold fish once (he was real big, but we managed), snails from the river, crayfish – Yum Yum! Delicious! We’ve had worms, and crickets are good too. My mom has tried feeding us romaine lettuce. Its all right, she says that we will like it better when we get older.
Young turtles get along well. However, with the older and mature turtles problems can arise due to hormones. They go their own way. So peaceful to watch. Turtles are calm and they will run from you or hide in their shell. The turtle shell is a highly complicated shield for the ventral and dorsal parts of a turtle.
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