Turtle Breeds
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Cooter Turtle Tank Setup: Complete Guide
Cooters are the larger, calmer cousins of sliders — same family (Emydidae), similar husbandry, but considerably bigger as adults and…
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Mud Turtle Care Guide: Tank Setup & Diet
Mud turtles are the underdogs of the small-aquatic-turtle world. They’re smaller than sliders, hardier than maps, less smelly than musks,…
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Map Turtle Care: Tank, Diet, Health Guide
Map turtles are the species we recommend to keepers who’ve outgrown the “just keep a slider” phase and want something…
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Musk Turtle Tank Setup: Complete Care Guide
If anyone asks us for a recommendation on a first aquatic turtle that doesn’t outgrow the average flat, the answer…
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Box Turtle Diet: Complete Feeding Guide
Box turtles get their diet wrong more than any other commonly kept turtle. We see two patterns in our inbox…
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Map Turtle Care Guide: Tank, Diet & Husbandry
Map turtles (genus Graptemys) are the connoisseur’s pet turtle. Beautifully patterned, active, intelligent enough to recognise their keeper, and small…
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Musk Turtle Tank Setup: The Small-Space Aquatic Pet
If you want an aquatic turtle but don’t have room for a 400-litre slider setup, the common musk turtle (Sternotherus…
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Painted Turtle Diet: Complete Feeding Guide
Diet is where most painted turtle health problems start. Linda’s answered hundreds of “why won’t my painted turtle eat” and…
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Mata Mata Turtle
Mata Mata Turtle (Chelus fimbriata) The mata mata turtle has a special look with its big, triangle-shaped head. They come…
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