Photo Gallery :: Red and Squirrel: My new Southern Painteds

[jay2487]

I just got them Saturday. If you couldn't tell, the one who has climbed all the way up a finger thick branch of the driftwood, all the way to the edge and is barely hanging on is Squirrel. He/She is a climbing beast. Every time I check on him he's up on something you wouldnt think a turtle would be able to climb. Red has a bigger red stripe on his back and is a little bit lazier. Once he feels dryness on the bottom of his shell he stops going any higher. No, there is another basking platform, that is not what is used for basking by my other turtles but it seems both the southerns love the driftwood.

[seano997]

Both of them have some really pretty coloring from what I can see. And I love the one that is just barely hanging on. lol

[jay2487]

I had never even heard of them before I saw them at the pet store. Their belly's aren't nearly as colorful as most Painteds but they make up for it by being the only painted species with the stripe down the back(if you can't tell I've been wildly researching them lol)
If anyone has any info outside the normal sources please let me know

[db'sSlider]

Very cool looking turtles!