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Originally Posted by FlyingNimbus  Sounds like a softshell turtle to be honest... That's what's mostly in those chinese grocery stores... Bullfrogs, Softshell turtle, rarely diamond back terrapin(not sure if done illegally or what), doubt I'd see a red eared over there but then again, maybe not.... Red eared sliders are extremely prolific and in some areas can get 5 each for a quarter.....
My aunt got my cousin a turtle once in mexico, and he ended up tormenting it by picking it up and playing with it like as if it was a car... ended up dead, was pretty mad at her when I heard her tell me that story...
I know about the male thing, it's pretty easy to tell a male if you've had it for some time because if you ever pick it up the cloaca may pop out and that's an instant way to tell.. you don't have to do anything other than just pick it up by the shell-- only seen it with red eareds though...
These things are bred in such large quantities in some areas if no one accepts them they ended up being culled because of the mass number of them...
They do have neat personalities, and some tolerate handling but no turtle likes to be handled, actually no reptile or amphibian enjoys handling they just tolerate it if anything. Well, good thing they're not like amphibians... amphibians have rather delicate skin and most end up breathing through their skin sort of.. If the pores are plugged I heard they die. Sensitive to chemicals, and stuff -- more so why shouldn't be handled because of the stuff on our hands.
All turtles need large enclosure, even the smallest turtle available in the pet trade which is 3-4 inches long needs a rather sizeable enclosure... I love turtles, but because of that I try not to keep them anymore, not unless I made a pond for them which they would appreciate a lot better, or a big enclosure like that.
Shell fragments? You mean the scutes? They shed those, more so basking turtles than bottom dwellers. |
Nope- they were red eared sliders. We took them to the vet. I kinda shortened what happened. We took them for regular, yearly, updates. She was getting calcium deprived, because he'd regularly, um, mount her, and she was at the point where she was actually laying eggs. TOO much, the vet said. Those were her egg shell fragments. At that point, along with her head being chewed up by Bambi, we put her in the herp rescue. I'll get a picture up shortly so you can see that they were definitely red eared sliders.