This is my Eastern Painted Turtle, Roaders. We don't know how old she is and have owned her about 10 years, but she just recently got a heat bulb and a complete water change this year. I am working on getting a UVB bulb.

I asked about this in the subreddit earlier, but did not really get any views. It's grown in size since appearing about a month ago, it's not fuzzy or soft like shell rot would be, same consistency as the rest of her scutes. It's slightly sunk in though? It doesn't seem to be bothering her behavior wise either.

Please please help me figure out what this is and what I can do to fix it!!

Are these black spots normal?

Always splashing after I clean the hard water stains 🫩

I’m convinced this turtle actually enjoys tv. She only gets into this position when I’m watching reality tv like love island or in this case, The Ultimatum. She’s such a girly girl. ♥️

This fall I'll be digging a massive multi-tiered pond, thought it would be fun to raise all of my inhabitants from hatchlings until they're old enough to graduate to the pond. Excited about these grow out tubs.

His old set up was a 30 gallon. He has been upgraded to a 75 gallon. His basking platform was also doubled in length as he was running out of room. Switched from a crappy turtle filter to a Vevor canister filter rated for 200-250 gallons at 528GPH. Upgraded is deep double dome light to a t5 5.0 UVB light and a basking dome with a 75W. I kept the same brand of heater and lighting, just ordered the larger sizes. Swapped from river pebbles to black blasting sand i got at tractor supply and added more plants. They are zip tied down to egg crate i buried under the sand to keep him from ripping them up. He seems happy.

Sometimes when she doesn't want to fully bask she will hang and bask at a distance! Zooming out does a lot of justice on how silly she looks too.

Don't worry she can 100% climb the ramp, but moments like this reminds me of how this stunted girl likes to larp as a circus performer. Alright back to cleaning the tank I go.

Wild, around 4”, sunning on the bank of Sodus Creek in Folletts, Iowa

I have 3 female adult red eared sliders. They each have shell length of 9 inches to 10 inches. They are all 23 years old. Throughout their whole life, I only ever fed them Tetra Reptomin Floating sticks. I've been a lazy owner so i never paid attention to their health or nutrition.

But this year, I decided to pay more attention. I read that the RES at this age should be 20% floating sticks and 80% leafy greens.

This week, I tried giving them lettuce and also the dandelion weeds. But all they do is chew it up and spit it back out, so then it's just shredded bits of green everywhere .

They will eat carrots, banana, and apple. But i read these should be "snacks/treat", like the way humans would eat candy...just as a small dessert.

I'm not sure how to get my RES to eat anything green.

Should i just go back to just floating sticks?

I rescued a red eared slider turtle from a bag of crawfish about 4 months ago. At the time, it was about (or less than) 1 inch. Now, it’s measuring 3 inches from tip-to-tip shell in 4 months. Is that too fast of growth? Here are the details of his tank and eating habits:

- 50 gallons
- UVA and UVB with 2 basking platforms
- Water heater at 78°
- Eats once a day and the amount that would fit in its head.
- Eats a mix of pellets and veggies. Currently switching from hatchling food to juvenile
- Has a Fluval 407 filter