Hi! Introduce yourselves here. :: hello everyone! meet Bubbles and Shemp...

[bubblestheturtle]

my boyfriend and i are new RES turtle owners. It was my valentines present to him to get us two hatchling female turtles to raise. and here they are!



Bubbles ^^^



Shemp^^^

I have them in a 10 gallon tank, which i kow they will outgrow quickly. I took out all of thier rocks b/c of Shemp getting bored and eating them. we have a filter, a heat lamp, a UVA & UVB lamp and a water heater keeping the water temp at 80 degrees...i feed them repto min once daily in a seperate container along with dandilion leaves...

they are doing great from what i can see..

[xsavingsaturdayx]

Wow, you sure know what you are doing!


Great job, most newbies come to this site completely clueless about what RES need.

Welcome!

[bubblestheturtle]

yeah, i got really excited about the turtles and pretty much read this entire site so thats why. and then im shocked when i hear that my friends keep their turtles in "island lagoons" and feed them hamburger meat.

[SpotsMama]

They are incredibly precious! I envy you getting to watch those tiny little things grow!

Just an observation - you indicate you believe both hatchlings are female. However, you won't really know this for sure until they are at least 4 inches long! So you may indeed wind up with two girls, but you may have two boys, or even one of each!

[bubblestheturtle]

yeah i know. so far they both look famale. what we wanted was both to be female and thats what we asked for when we got them. a male and a female would not be bad, it would just be more work of they mated later on down the road. if they both turn out to be male..i just hope there wount be agression. that was my main concern.

[SpotsMama]

Sounds good. I guess you know that a female doesn't have to be around a male to lay eggs. They're like chickens - they lay eggs regardless. You can't count on the females being non-agressive, either.

But all those interesting things are down the road a bit!