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Proper Substrate for the Turtle Tank
A proper layer of substrate at the bottom of any aquatic aquarium environment, whether it be for turtles or tropical fish, actually performs a few different purposes. All of them useful to maintaining a safe, stable situation for the animals living within the aquarium. First of all, the substrate (most commonly a layer of clean gravel) obviously goes…
Understanding Calcium, Cuttlebone, and its role in Supplementing the Diets of our Exotic Pets
Proper availability of calcium within an animals body is vital in maintaining multiple bodily functions and for skeletal formation and repair…
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The Diagnostic and Medication Processes for Aquatic Turtles (Part -2 “Shell Problems and Wounds”)
As with any pet we keep and care for (turtles included), there are sometimes situations that come up where medical/veterinary…
Quick-Answer: Why is my turtles shell turning white?
Turtles kept in aquariums that have “hard” water from the tap will sometimes develop a whitish scale on their shells. When the turtles climb…
FEATURED ARTICLE – Box Turtle Corner
FEATURED ARTICLE – Reviews
Outdoor Enclosures for Box Turtles
For those of us who are lucky enough to live in a temperate area with normally good weather, we are able to give our Box turtles occasional time “outside”…
Turtles and The Social Media – Part 2
In part one of this series we noted that the world of today practically lives on social media. At any given moment there are millions of people exchanging information and ideas, in literally thousands of various chat groups. But as we all well know, social media is a mixed bag of goods and bads, positives and negatives, facts -and most certainly -fictions…