reptiles turtles
reptiles turtles
Why can't you buy little turtles any more?
I used to have a tiny little turtle that lived in a little bowl with an island in the middle.
I'd love to get one for my son. (He loves Tuck on Wonder Pets).
But every pet store I see doesn't carry them any more.
I putting this in reptiles. Are turtles reptiles?
(Yes, turtles ARE reptiles!)
The story is kind of long, but here is the short version:
The way people were keeping baby turtles in the 'old days' tended to kill the baby turtle in a few months. Baby turtles (usually Red-ear sliders and Painted turtles, but other species as well) need:
- at least 5 gallons of Water for proper exercise,
- good quality lighting including some UltraViolet light for development,
- good diet that does not include lettuce, hamburger, hot dogs, or the packaged foods that were mostly fly and ant parts
- and more.
In fact, baby turtles are actually tricky pets to raise well. Much harder than tropical fish, for example.
Well, some reptile conservation groups banded together to try to stop the horrible slaughter- not only were far too many pets dying, but gathering the babies in the wild was destroying entire ecosystems.
They tried several angles, but the one that worked was a ban on turtles under 5" (different lengths in other places) because the young turtles so often carried Salmonella- and that was because they were usually caught in the nice warm, nutrient-filled water of waste-water treatment plants.
The Salmonella scare worked, but it is really kind of dumb since only a few turtles, even from sludge ponds, host Salmonella, while paper money is more likely to carry it.
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