The water in a red eared slider turtle tank should be changed every 2 to 3 weeks.
For a red eared slider turtle the water should be as deep as 6 to 8 inches or at least twice as deep as the turtle is long.
So if your turtle is 4 inches the water depth should be 6 inches to 8 inches in depth.
The water in a red eared slider turtle tank should be changed every 2 to 3 weeks.
You should do a 25 percent water change once a week or a 50 to 75 percent water change every 2 to 3 weeks.
To keep your red eared slider turtle happy provide the turtle with a clean tank, lots of space and allow them to bask in the sun and be as active as possible.
Giving your turtle lots of room to grow and move around makes the red eared slider turtle more happy.
Red eared slider turtles should be fed everyday when they are smaller or juvenile turtles and adult red eared slider turtles should be fed a good sized portion of food every 2 days to 3 days.
A red eared slider turtle needs a tank size of 50 gallons minimum and you should provide 10 gallons of water for each inch of the red eared slider turtles shell length for each of the turtles.
Young red eared slider turtles will be okay in a 20 gallon tank but as they grow they need the minimum of 50 gallons to have enough room.
Turtle shells are not bulletproof although they are hard enough to protect the turtle from predators but even some animals can bite through and break a turtles shell.
Animals that can break a turtle's shell are alligators, coyotes, raccoons, weasels, hawks and crocodiles.
As for sea turtles the sea turtle's shell is softer than the land turtle and whales and sharks are easily able to break the sea turtle shell.
A Jaguar can also break through a turtle shell as they have a bite strength of 1,500 PSI.
Turtles are completely attached to their shells.
It's impossible for the turtle shell to come off.
A turtles shell grows with the turtle.
A turtle shell is made up of 50 bones in the turtle's skeleton and includes the spine and rib cage.
There are 28 small plates around the edge of the turtle's shell, one for each day in the lunar month.
As well, there are 13 scutes or sections on the turtle's back, one for each of the moons in the year.
Each First nation has a unique understanding and a description of the 13 moons.
Turtles, or testudines, are reptiles of the order Testudines, characterized by a special shell developed mainly from their ribs.
Modern turtles are divided into two major groups, the Pleurodira and Cryptodira, which differ in the way the head retracts.
A turtle's lifespan depends on the species, but most aquatic species live into their 40s, PetMD reports.
Smaller species live only about a quarter of a century, and terrestrial box turtles typically live to 40 or 50 years but can live to be 100.