It's helped me immensely, and whenever I see something like this I'm reminded of how I began, and I simply wish to help fix things to save a lot of pain from both the turtle and their owner.
Please stick around, we don't bite! Seriously though, if you have any questions or need any help, go ahead and ask, we won't judge harshly or be mean. You can learn a lot here, I know I have. It died after almost a year. Those were all within my first three years of turtle keeping.
Live and learn. Sometimes, the tough part about asking for advice is taking it in stride. Sometimes people can seem as if they're coming across harsh, but this is the kindest forum I've been a member of. Just ask questions, and everyone will get you where you need to be.
Yup, i agree that the tank it's too small. So i'll be going to the pet shop today to open a new tank for my turtle. I'm really thankful for all your replies!! I'm really new in taking care of turtles. Will update you all how the new tank will be like. Pls advise me more k? Good to know that you hadn't gotten scared away from the whole turtle keeping thing.
I sure got worried when I saw the pic gone. This really is a group of very nice and very caring people. And we're very glad to have you with us! Please just follow the guidelines in the care sheet linked above, and your turtle should live a long, healthy life. My turtle's eyes are okay and now with the new tank, he's more active than ever! Thanks everyone your advice and encouragements! Also you need to get a filter heater and a heat lamp, and i belive that you will need to set it up so that your turtle can go from water to land so that he can get dryed off.
I have a good idea. This is what i did. I got lucky and within one day i got a brand new 55 gal from some rich guy for 50 bucks. Ya never know what people are trying to get rid of for cheap! You need to be a member in order to leave a comment.
Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy! Already have an account? Sign in here. Sign in to follow this Followers 2. Blind turtle! Recommended Posts. Report post. Posted July 2, Thank you so much!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites. Joe S. Posted July 3, Over this basking platform, you need a basking lamp. Lastly the pH level of the water should be between 6. You can use a water conditioner such as API TAP Water Conditioner to ensure that the pH level is within the right range, but you should double check using a test kit as well.
There is a lot to choose from when it comes to substrates. Crushed coral is a suitable substrate, and is also a great source of calcium. Another substrate choice is river pebbles. Getting the temperature right is important.
I advise that the water temperature never falls below 70 F. A temperature between 75 and 79 F is optimal.
If you must you can use a submersible aquarium heater to keep the temperature within the right range. The basking area should have a temperature between 85 F and 95 F. This should keep the turtle warm and healthy. You can do a setup with either a heat bulb that also provides UVB or you can use a ceramic heater and add a UVB bulb separately. The Zoo Med Basking bulb provides both lighting and heating.
However, ceramic heat lamps are advantageous since they can be on throughout the entire hour day and controlled with either external or built in thermostats. You should provide the turtle with hours of UV exposure each day. UV lamps need to be changed roughly every 6 months as they lose intensity. You can use a test card to check if they are still good.
The lamp may look ok but they will produce less UV as time passes. Terrapins are omnivorous and must be fed a varied diet. This diet should include vegetation, vegetables and proteins.
Freeze-dried krill and shrimp also work well. You can also offer them aquatic plants. Just make sure these plants are edible.
Some examples are water hyacinth, duckweed, arrowhead, waterweed, and pondweed. For turtles kept indoors, supplements may not be an option but rather a must.
You need to speak with your herp vet before giving supplements. Turtles kept indoors usually lack calcium and vitamin D3 and such supplements help address this issue. Overfeeding can easily lead to a fat turtle or fat tortoise and unnatural growth.
Feed juveniles and hatchlings once a day and adults every other day. Terrapins hate to be handled. If you do handle yours you may find them being aggressive. Timid and shy turtles can bite when handled. A new turtle will be extremely wary of you. So, uh, if a Ninja Turtle had a penis proportional to their body size I guess getting it on with a human may not be as plausible as I originally imagined it to be.
Good to know. As for duck genitalia, they mean that ducks are the only birds for which rape is physically possible. Male ducks do tend to use the opportunity too. Harvestmen Arachnida: Opiliones which are what I work on have also developed an intromittent organ independently of mammals, as have many other invertebrates. In the case of harvestmen, the somewhat verbose "spermatopositor" has been suggested as an appropriate term, but the vast majority of workers including myself stick to using the term "penis".
Oh yes, and the plural of penis is "penes". I spent some time working with Blanding's turtles up here in Nova Scotia they're species at risk. All I can say is that they were even more well-endowed than those pictures, and they tended to let it all "hang out" every time you picked them up. I highly doubt it was an aggression thing--those were some of the most relaxed turtles I've ever seen.
Marie, the fact that this was an issue for you disturbs me more than the original subject matter, by far. Most impressed with the duck genetalia.
I did not see in the post above what the evolutionary reasoning was for an "organ" that big. OK, just first hand, recent observation from a freaked-out, non-scientist tortoise care giver.
I found this board while searching for an explaination to the horrific 'display' my desert tortoise performed yesterday. Yesterday, I looked out on the patio to see him basking I noticed a large 'flower like' the only way I can describe shape behind him aiming toward the sky To my horror, as I stepped out on patio Nor had I heard of anything like it, so naturally I freaked-out, and assumed he had somehow gotten his insides on the outside of his body!!!
I was horrified and alarmed that this was very bad for our young "Gamera"!!! Not sure if there is any truth to this but I remembered reading it when researching hybernation once and remembered the recommendation to place in their water-dish once in a while during hybernation He moved about a little and it sort of retracted a bit he pointed it down and 'dabbed' it a bit on the concrete, dripping a little clear fluid I had about all I could stand, so I picked him up and placed him in his water dish.
He sat a second and walked out and pulled all his equipment back inside where it belongs! LOL So Okay, kinda got carried away here It was traumatic only for a minute or two, then pure bewilderment set in for a while, of course "I gotta know" is my current focus What in the world!?!?! Some day when I heal from this, I may come arround to a morbid curiosity and see if I can locate a mate for him to see My formost regret trust I have many from this ordeal , is that I did not have the where-with-all to take a picture when I had the chance Just as many of us do not have graphic images on hand of grizzly injuries our family or loved ones may have incurred.
In the moment, you just don't think to reach for the camera when someone you know is in midst of a medical emergency. However, now that I know I'll add that there are some 'impressive' displays of turtle endowment here, but my tortoise has a whole lot more going on that I'm not seeing depections of here, or have been able to find anywhere else on the Net.
And no, thanks, but I'm not interested in any ideas on how to encourage him The horror, the horror They're mutants, they are probably fit for humans if they chose to mate with one. Almost too sad they don't really exist.
That's be an interesting experience. My pair of Rhinoclemmys P. Manni are interesting. Their breeding behaviors are fun to watch. My male, Donatello He nips and will stand on her shell, on all fours and reach over and try to nip her face!
I havent seen his penis if it engorges, thats what it is! In all honestly, it's impressive. Funny looking, but impressive. He wont expose himself with me just holding him; but my younger male Raph seems to not mind hanging low.
The bum. Those boxies in the water, that's nothing more than them relaxing a bit and cleaning themselves. My 2 pound red eared slider has a significant problem when his organ comes out as what appears to be a large part of his intestine larger than a golf ball comes out as well.
And he has a really tough time getting it back inside again. I've used really cold water, and bactraban when it became dried out and appearing to be infected. Any suggestions to provide him with some assistance would be appreciated. I have a three-toed box turtle Terrapene Carolina Triunguis who is approximately 50 years old and he seems to display his organ while bathing at times.
However one of his more annoying habits as he is allowed to walk about the house is sitting on one's foot and displaying his organs. As he is quite light approx. For John with the RES I would suggest placing the turtle in lukewarm water- we always try to have the water for these turtles at near room temperature The slightly warmer water may help the turtle relax, also leave the room for minutes as at times turtles will get stressed out by human presence- I know the three-toed doesn't like having an audience while bathing or eating but will actively seek out feet to sit on for warmth or otherwise My boyfriend was freaked out a couple of minutes ago.
We thought our turtle pooka was a female but tonight he just saw a black big thing hanging out of Pooka's tail. The turtle put its "thing" back in and its tail looked swollen. We thought it was going to lay eggs until i read all of this He is freaked out. My girlfriend kept noticing her sons turtle 'Daisy Belle' had this enormous black thing coming from her tail I thought 'she' might have been trying to lay eggs my girlfriend insisted it was a penis so we googled 'sexual reproduction organs of the red eared slider turtle' and there it was needless to say the turtle has been renamed and we no longer are looking for eggs.
Hi i have a turtle the one with diamond shape shell. When our box turtle exposed himself for the first time, it was the students who noticed it. Harvey, Pumpkin is making a giant purple poop!
Later that day, the turtle was burying himself in his substrate. One of my quiet little girls observed that obviously, Pumpkin was embarrassed that we had seen him naked, so he was hiding! Just the other day I was freaked out by my terrapin with this black "thingy" hanging out from under it's tail, I've never really end up having a name for it, due to the fact that I could never tell if it's a male or a female. Makes us come to the point where the freaking out and black "thingy" confirms his gender We have a young leopard tortoise, named leo, aproximately two and a half years old 6 inches long and we recently noticed that a fleshy, pinkish, protrusion a couple inches long resembling a small tail with a quarter-sized "mexican sombrero" at the end.
We looked up pictures of male leopard tortoise sex organs on the internet and we found that all were much more purple and none had the "sombrero.
We would apreciate if you could send us your official e-mail address so that we could send you a short video or photos of him so that you could help us identify le o,a 's origin. My guess is that it is either sexual or a sign of contentment. I've had them since they were approx. They recently have been "displaying" what looks like a big purple flower when in the water. They don't appear in distress, eat lettuce, carrot, strawberries every day. Right now they get egg whites,grouund lean chicken, turkey, beef every other day or so.
The "flower" is easily retracted upon my approach, but looks all the world like an organ designed for absorbtion rather than secretion Then the other turtle did it and my freind the turtle expert suggested the flower may actually be a penis.
The turtles don't "display" when the other is around. I'm worried and don't have accessto a vet specializing in exotics I'm glad I found this site! I was ready to chuck TurtleTurtle aka Mr.
T over the balcony One too many sci-fi movies Hi--Laura message 54 , I would betcha the 'flower' is actually your turtle's sex organs. I recently had the same thing happen to me. I have had "Ellie", a 3 toed box, for 12 years! We have a great reptile vet who suggested we get pictures of the thing and bring them in with "Ellie" to get checked out.
Turns out "Ellie" is actually "Elliot". Also turns out that "Ellie" is turned on by lukewarm water and tends to regularly display his organ in his water dish. I have a really short question, that I hope someone to answer What is average for the size of a painted sliders erect phallus? I have had several turtles over the years and never seen anything like that. Weird, but thanks for sharing.
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