Decorating Your Pet Turtle’s Tank
A nicely decorated and clean turtle aquarium can be an excellent focal point in a home. It should be tastefully decorated to beautify your home while continuing to provide a safe healthy environment for your turtle. The turtle’s basic needs will be fulfilled with a tank with a capacity of no less than 40 gallons, [...]
Proper Care for Your Pet Turtle
Turtles make extremely interesting pets, but they are not toys. They should never be brought into the home as an entertaining novelty for young children who are not taught how to care for them. There is a long history of this unintended abuse of turtles, which usually results in their sudden demise. The most prevalent [...]
Comparing Land and Water Turtles
Regardless of whether it lives on land or in the water, we tend to identify any reptile with a hard shell or carapace and a slow awkward gait as a turtle. While this is generally true that they are all turtles, convention dictates that those turtles that live on land be referred to as tortoises. [...]
Pet Turtle Health Issues
Keeping a turtle as a pet is a big responsibility. Many people think that just because the turtle doesn’t seem to be as active as other pets that they should not need that much care. However, this is definitely not the case. In fact, a turtle can be very susceptible to disease and sickness just [...]