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Water for a Red Ear Slider2007-11-24 2:02:56

This has the information needed. By the way, most red eared sliders I've had, are more intrigued by mealworms & crickets, than by fish.

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fill the tank 5 inches with water and buy him a floating dock

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OK first YES THEY NEED LIKE A FOOT OF WATER FOR A ADULT AT LEAST! when they r Small 6-7 inches is good don't worry it will not drown if u put a place for it to go up on they r aquatic turtle you should have done research before you bought the thing! they get like 10 inches long bet 60 bucks you didn't know that! hope you do your research next time. :)

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They do love to swim, they also like to get out of the water. Depending on the size of tank you have you could fill it half way with water and make sure you put like a floating island in there. They will eat when they are hungry so just put a couple of feeder fish in the tank and just let him eat when he is ready, you may want to put a couple of the pellets in there as well to see which one he will prefer. If you have a pretty decent size tank you could build up half the tank as a dry land area and then fill the other half of the tank with water so that he can come and go as he pleases.

The asker did say that they got stuck taking care of it for their brother it is not theirs.

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Ok, no offense though about everyone is wrong and I can tell you that for sure because i have 3 red-ear sliders, 1 painted turte, 5 Mata-Mata turtles and 4 soft shell. There enclosure should have water two times deeper then the size of its shell. You need a florecsen strip light, a black light, and a heat emmiter bulb. You also need a filter (I prefer penguin 900 filters), rocks as substrate and a land spot. If you don't want your tank to smell, I'd get a 40 gallon Aquarium. Make sure its an Aquarium because if its not it could leak and it will be a mess. Heres a care sheet I created on my forum. Hope it helps! Nick http://repticzone.com/caresheets/1466.ht.

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Your first job is to identify the turtle. Each kind of turtle wants differnet cares, from tortoises that only live on land and eat veggies to aquatic turtles that almost never leave the water and eat mostly meat.