General Care Discussion :: minimal basking and soon to shed

[Kurtni]

That's what everybody says but my vet said they are both healty and aslong as there are no signs of agression there is no reason to seprate them. They are doing quite well together actually. Turtley let little edgar stack on top of him to bask the other day. And before I thought turtley was scared but he was just getting use to edgar I actually saw him helping edgar out of the current from the filter it was very cute I watch them very closely. I'm home a lot of the day so I can watch them and my boyfriend is home nights to watch them . There has been no igns of aggression tey are getting along very well

My turtle Nacho was kept with a turtle about 4 inches longer than him when I first got him. They had no signs of aggression, probably because the bigger turtle didn't realize he was there half the time. I really think turtles bite things out of curiosity, and that's what happened to Nacho. One day, not even during feeding, the larger turtle bit his face and broke the bones around his nose and he almost died. His nose still sits crookedly on his face (the bones healed that way) so one of his nasal passages is crushed. I adopted him after this ordeal and because of how his nose was, he couldn't smell, and would not eat, so he risked dying from that. Luckily after about 4 months of TLC, he's perfectly fine now, but if he hadn't been kept with that other turtle it would have never been an issue.

It doesn't matter how closely you watch them- one bite can be enough.

[SquidSox]

They don't eat in the tank they both have seprate eating bowls they go in to eat one is a punch bowl and one is a bucket I got from work they also do outside basking seprate

[SquidSox]

That's what everybody says but my vet said they are both healty and aslong as there are no signs of agression there is no reason to seprate them. They are doing quite well together actually. Turtley let little edgar stack on top of him to bask the other day. And before I thought turtley was scared but he was just getting use to edgar I actually saw him helping edgar out of the current from the filter it was very cute I watch them very closely. I'm home a lot of the day so I can watch them and my boyfriend is home nights to watch them . There has been no igns of aggression tey are getting along very well

My turtle Nacho was kept with a turtle about 4 inches longer than him when I first got him. They had no signs of aggression, probably because the bigger turtle didn't realize he was there half the time. I really think turtles bite things out of curiosity, and that's what happened to Nacho. One day, not even during feeding, the larger turtle bit his face and broke the bones around his nose and he almost died. His nose still sits crookedly on his face (the bones healed that way) so one of his nasal passages is crushed. I adopted him after this ordeal and because of how his nose was, he couldn't smell, and would not eat, so he risked dying from that. Luckily after about 4 months of TLC, he's perfectly fine now, but if he hadn't been kept with that other turtle it would have never been an issue.

It doesn't matter how closely you watch them- one bite can be enough.

He may lookb a lot bigger but turtley is only about an inch or 1.5 inches larger then edgar its not an awful sizedifference and and they have lots o room and a biger tank will be in on Monday and the bigger dock next Wednesday so they have plenty of space. Also edgar is much faster the turtley. The fact edgar could have a mashed face or die is scary tho..they have a follow up with the vet at 10am ill talk to him again however the new tank comes Monday so I could seprate them then. Now if I d seprate them how long til I can put them back together and will they ever be okay with each other again if I seprate them for two long cause I would realy like them to live together that's the whole point of the biger tank