When they dropped it off they left it on a plastic container, where I kept him in until I bought him one of those Zilla 20 gallon turtle kits. I am already regretting that decision since it will clearly need a bigger tank soon but I did get him a Penn Plax Cascade 1000 filter that is working wonderfully. It is clearly doing a lot better now, he is way more active and has actually learned to swim instead of walking around like it did on its old setup.
I have attached pictures of the turtle and you can clearly see that it is shedding but I do have some concerns regarding his shell. It looks like he has some dark pitted spots on its shell but I don't know exactly what it could be. After he eats in the morning he will actually bask for hours and close his eyes or lay his head down. Also it does get agitated in the afternoon and just starts swimming around recklessly and messing around with the tank setup. I don't know the sex of the turtle but to me it looks like a male since the nails seem to be kind of long. Let me know what you guys think and thanks for reading my turtle story.
