Hello, I am new to the site and wanted to post my little guys up. I'll keep it short, my daughter got a significant amount of birthday money from her grandparents a few mon the ago. My daughter has always been a animal lover. We saw a man in the parking lot of a store selling 2 hatchling RES out of his car. Really sad now that I look back on it after doing research. Anyways, my daughter (8 years old) really wanted them. I was skeptical and told her she needed to buy them everything they needed with her money instead of toys at the store. She eagerly accepted and we bought them and named them Tom and bradley. I have never had turtles before. We had fish and dogs but, never any reptiles. Once I got home I jumped on my tablet and started researching. I started them off in about 4 inches of water with a island in the middle with the regular bulb the Walmart reptile aquarium comes with. It worked for a few weeks. My daughter and I went to a pet eporium locally for some tank improvement's one weekend. Behold they have a very large tank with about 4 - 5 full grown female RES. I noticed the different bulbs and inquired with the lady who ran the reptile side of the store. She informed me of the importance of the UVB bulb for the turtles. So I bought one and some smooth turtle rocks (large enough so they can't eat them). Here is a link to my Google+ post. Check out my little setup.
https://plus.google.com/110035130921549 ... kbDbSQAndiI am having difficulty posting pictures to this forum or I would have just posted them sorry about that. Any tips or improvement's are welcome. We are new to these guy but we really like them. I never knew they had such strong personalities. Tom is very skiddish to any movement but once he notices it's us he is fine. Tom will even let us pick him up with little trouble. Bradley likes to bask quite a bit and isn't as scared of us until we try to pick him up. He definitely isn't fond of it lol. Bradley is also very sensitive. For the longest time he would throw a little fit after I would move him to clean his tank. He will hide in a corner by the pump for hours and not come out. Now, it seems ok with me taking him in and out. I think he likes the improvements I make to his home
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