Starting out with Aquatic Turtles – A Beginners look
When you happily decide to add an Aquatic Turtle to your household, a few obvious questions come up: what size tank will I need to house him? (or more commonly – them), what environment do I need…
Species Profile: The Map Turtles of North America
Generally speaking, to this date there are 16 recognized varieties of Map Turtles, all found within North America (United States/Canada). This includes all the various…
How to Eliminate Chlorine & Chloramines with Aquatic Turtles
As pointed out in the previous article: “It appears clear that the use of chlorine in some form as a major purifier of drinking water is here to stay, so if you’re dealing with water provided by local State and City…
The use of Free Chlorine & Chloramines with Aquatic Turtles – From aquariums to swimming pools
For years there has been discussions regarding the use of chlorinated water in Aquatic Turtle tanks. Some sides maintaining that the chlorine is absolutely safe for the turtles while others claiming that chlorine is completely unsafe…
Turtles and Salmonella – 2020 update-Stop the Madness
Here is a statistic that will get your attention, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) estimates that each year there are over 1.35 million cases of Salmonella in the United States. Let’s pause for a minute and let that sink in…
The Life Staging of Turtle Diets – Turtle Diets of the Future are Here
So what exactly is “Life Staging” you might ask? If you listen to advertising text from countless Animal Nutrition companies you’ll hear the name, or at least the premise. Though you might not catch the phrase…
The Proper Feeding of Aquatic Turtles
We at TropicZone get asked frequently just what the proper procedure is to feeding Aquatic Turtles. As a Manufacture of Aquatic Turtle Diets, with decades of experience in feeding aquatic turtles behind us, we are uniquely suited to answering this question…
Box Turtle Basics – A Beginners Guide to keeping box turtles
North American Box Turtles have been among the most popular reptile pets for decades. In the past, wild caught adults and juveniles were collected and sent to independent pet stores and department store pet departments…
The Art of Raising Baby Turtles – A beginner’s guide to happiness
To most people a baby turtle is probably the cutest darn thing they have ever seen. You can check out a baby snake or young alligator and think “eeew-not for me!”, but you just can’t look into the big bright sparkling eyes…
The Progression of Aquatic Turtle Diets – From ant eggs to the stars
Every year, since around the mid 1950’s thousands of baby turtles have been purchased for pets every year. In the early days, because of the lack of quality turtle foods and the basic understanding of proper turtle care and cleanliness, many of these hatchling turtles never made it into adulthood. Thankfully, those times are long gone now, and the current flood of information…