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This is Carlo's home:

20 gallons (soon to be 90!)
I should have more water, but right now his tank is propped up with 2 dictionaries (he'll be well-read!) because the filter couldn't fit on the shelf properly. I move in less than 3 weeks and then he'll have a 90 gallon with lots of water and hopefully more plants, river rocks, etc!
These are Carlo's friends[eventually food]:

rosy-red minnows
This is Carlo:

He's clearly impressed.

Now his shell:
In the water his shell looks fine, except for on two parts where it looks dry. I took him out to take these pictures and noticed his shell is super dark and then his carapace got really dry:

here's his plastron:


Also: when I took him out and started giving him a little belly rub and head rub he stuck his head out and opened his mouth. It was adorable, even if he was trying to bite me.

Cute, but you need to raise the water level in that tank ALOT. He needs as much room/water as possible to swim. Raise that water level as much as you can and leave a several inches at the top so he can't climb out. When you get your 90gal do the same. Other than that though everything looks great!!

I filled the water as much as I could with this Zilla tank and he seems to be livin' it up.
Do you have any thoughts on his shell? I'm constantly worrying about it.

to me it looks like he just needs to shed

It looks like he's been doing some growing---the seam on the carapace is rather wide and dark.

marisa wrote:It looks like he's been doing some growing---the seam on the carapace is rather wide and dark.

This is a good thing, yes? Should I be concerned about the darkness?

awwwwwe! tiny baby Carlo! Mine are about the same size.