Baby sitting turtle

[jonathan85365]

It's a 55 gallon with ramp leading to basking area kept at 90 degress with uvb 12 hours a day

 

[elephantnose]

Ducklings are actually cheap you can buy them from farms for like 5 bucks. My parents complain about the pets I have now even tho I take care of them entirely. When I get my own house it's going to be full of animals.

 

[jonathan85365]

Same and yea most places charge excessively on shipping and force u to buy several to keep warm or where I live a shop sells up te road for around 15$

Just know ducks for the first couple weeks are a pain and just want food and water myn anway lol he just started becoming pet friendly this weekend

I'm going to start a thread and take a picture daily I think

 

[elephantnose]

I have the reptisun 5.0 UVB light strip. And penn-plex floating board walk. I always have trouble with my filters. What kind do you have?

 

[jonathan85365]

Pen plax turtle topper dual deep dome mini combo lamp 60 watt incandescent bulb and 13 watt uvb bulb on a timer

 

[elephantnose]

Kittens are the same. I got one at 5 weeks. The person with the cat that had the babies had to get rid of the kittens because she rented and her landlord only allowed two pets. Supposedly you shouldn't give away the kittens until 8-12 weeks of age. At five weeks all the kitten does is cry and bite fingers.

 

[jonathan85365]

Ducks r closer to babies than any animal I know

 

[elephantnose]

Did it imprint on your friend and follow him everywhere like he would his mother.

 

[jonathan85365]

Not him nor I does he follow yet likely cause he isn't really allowed to be on the ground much but both he's imprinted on I'm sure

 

[elephantnose]

Why isn't he allowed on the ground?

 

[jonathan85365]

Cats and he poops a lot small places to hide all that and I mean if he had diaper harness he would get more Time to wander with supervision

At his age about every hour he poops

 

[elephantnose]

That would get pretty annoying maybe you could teach it to use a litter box.

 

[jonathan85365]

They don't have a spincter muscle that's why indoors duck usually wear changeable diapers. They sometimes give u 5 seconds of warning

 

[jayDC_90]

That's a painted turtle. I say Midwest painted

 

[jonathan85365]

Oh ok he won't eat much

 

[elephantnose]

Really? Mine never stop. You could try putting in some feeder fish. They go for about $0.15 each at petsmart.

 

[jonathan85365]

He's used to pellets and maybe he ate one my other turtle killed

 

[elephantnose]

How, what happened?

 

[jonathan85365]

He's used to pellets and maybe he ate one my other turtle killed

When the turtle was put in big tank it had dead feeder so he ate it

 

[elephantnose]

When the turtle was put in big tank it had dead feeder so he ate it

Oh sorry I thought you meant your turtle was killed.