General Care Discussion

Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 9:47 am **turtle can float while sleeping?**

after my turtle moved to the 75 gallon tank, she sleeps on top of the water floating, with all limbs retracted, very cute....
I wonder how they control their buoyancy, they seem to have the ability to stay at any depth of the water....

Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 10:57 am

mmm, I never see my babies doing that :roll:

i see baby turtle floating on water some times but he/she is awake

Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 5:23 pm

They float the same way we do, they pull in a bunch of air and that makes them float, it gets a little harder for them as they get older due to their increase in weight (growing shell).

Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 11:43 am

My frog does that all the time (floats while sleeping).

Sheba, not so much....prolly because she is so BIG/heavy.

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