Pet Turtles

[A Black Guy]

really? my exotics vet said it was ok.

In all the research I did, I literally came across hundreds of different books and websites that always said never to use a heat rock.

I think the only reason people even use them with lizards is because heat speeds up their digestive process and most of the foods used in captivity are a little harder for the animal to break down compared with the wild, so adding the extra heat from the rock will sort of equal things out. That's not an issue with a turtle.

If you're using an overhead heat source, you're still going to get a safe amount of heat stored and radiated back up by the substrate in the terrarium, just like it would by the sun. I don't see any real reason to amplify that with a powered rock.

 

[SheLifts]

hmmm.. i din't know the whole reason they needed one, i assumed it was for temperature regulation.

my gecko's have an under tank heater. it only heats the sand in a small spot. would something like that be necessary for a tortoise? my box turtle doesn't need anything like that, but then again, he's not a dry/desert type animal.

 

[Plateau_Max]

Survivor Man ate a turtle on his show, it was pretty cool to see the little legs all hacked off and put on sticks then cooked over an open flame. I never thought about eating turtle before.

I did have Aligator once though it was pretty tasty.

 

[A Black Guy]

Survivor Man ate a turtle on his show, it was pretty cool to see the little legs all hacked off and put on sticks then cooked over an open flame. I never thought about eating turtle before.

Watch Cannibal Holocaust for probably the most thorough eating of a turtle ever caught on film.

 

[bigss75]

Watch Cannibal Holocaust for probably the most thorough eating of a turtle ever caught on film.

That is a fun little movie. Impalement, rape all the good stuff.

I had a couple golden geckos and box turtles and that reptile smell gets pretty gross if you don't constantly clean it.

 

[SheLifts]

mine never have an odor. yea!! mine are cleanly!!

 

[fufu]

Watch Cannibal Holocaust for probably the most thorough eating of a turtle ever caught on film.

That is an interesting watch to say the least.

 

[Arnold]

any more turtle or tortoise owners here?

 

[Gordo]

Wife had a turtle growing up...I'll ask her more about it after work. Apparently they're hardy little animals. They lost the turtle in the basement and couldn't find it for a couple of months or something and then one day they were watching tv and the little bugger came walking out into the middle of the floor. They have no idea where it was hiding or how it survived. LOL.

It was a land based turtle...not sure the breed. I remember her saying it was a high maintenance pet in terms of cleaning.

 

[SheLifts]

about once a week, i'll take an old tooth brush and some water and clean the box turtle's shell. i have a spray skin conditioner i add every day or so for moisturizing.

 

[HialeahChico305]

I had 2 turtles back when i was 15..............my mom dropped on by accident and he started spittin blood and died.The other one got lost in my back yard .

 

[FishOrCutBait]

I think I want "land turtles", does anyone know which type those are?

tortoises?

 

[goob]

That is an interesting watch to say the least.

Fucking horrible film. I hate it. Worst thing is, all the animals killed were killed for real.