Photo Gallery :: A RES? OR?...

[joyjoey85]

Hi,

Saw this among the RES selling in the local aquarium, doesn't look like a RES to me, and it seems to be not into pellet. Which i find weird for a baby, (the other RES i've got were more carnivore when they were babies)
Any idea what species it might be so that i can care for it better?

http://www.imagestation.com/8518782/3893541658
http://www.imagestation.com/8518782/3893541548
http://www.imagestation.com/8518782/3893541396

[N4784N R4613]

It sure looks like a RES to me! The "ear stripes" are not always bright red, they can be anywhere from a dark red, to a pale yellow.

[turboturtle8]

Yep he's a RES

[oobie58]

but the shell looks like a painted's shell.

[Safdar]

Ya thats a RES

[oobie58]

you sure about that? But look at the shell it looks like a painted.

[oobie58]

It looks like a yellow bellied slider.

[xsavingsaturdayx]

Get a picture of their plastron (belly). A lot of turtles have redears and similar shells and are not RES, judging by the ears is not a good way to ID a turtle. And no thats not a painted.

[DavidY]

Yeah, looks like a YBS to me too.

[kmichael55]

He looks just like my little guys when I first got them, their ears have gotten a little darker too since I got them... I vote RES until we see the plastron...

[csmiley]

My RES didn't have a red marking behind the ear when I got him and he was about the same size. After a couple months the red started to slowly show up. That being said, my vote would be RES. At lest based on the pictures I saw.

[Tenodera]

oobie, the picture you posted is a RES

[c.dorrance]

well i have a painted and he looked exactly like that when he was a baby.. and his shell looks exactly like that

[Tenodera]

Lots of turtles shells look a lot like different species. My Serra's shell looks almost identical to a RES shell but no one'll ever call her a RES!