My Red Eared Slider ???

Question

Hey, i have a red eared slider for a apet in my room and i always put my finger up againest the galss and okay with him.......but when my mom comes in my room and puts her finger up againest the glass he starts putting his hands infront of his head and shakes them!! what is he doing and why??

Thanks, if your the only one who posts an answer then ill make you best answer but is more than one of you vote then i will ill pick out of those thanks bye

Answer 1

sounds like he likes your Mom.He seems to be doing the mating dance :  )

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You probably already knew the bigger the environment the bigger the healthier the turtle. Remember 10 gallons for every inch of turtle. I have used kiddy pools and plastic pond liners from most nurseries and worked great.

Did you know that they need to bask under a reptile light UVA/UVB for 8 to 10 hrs a day for the vitamin D that they need to grow. So that means getting a turtle dock also.

Leave the heater on 75 to 78 degrees always. These turtles in captivity do not hibernate their eating may slow down some but they will not hibernate.

Their water needs to be clean otherwise they get sick easily from dirty water cause they p**p allot.

Total Body length: 5-8" average, up to 12 inches max. Life span: 15-25+ years

Males have the longer front nails and are used in mating. And are considered mature at about 5 yrs old. You can’t start sexing till about  3” across.

You need a good filter system! Gravel larger than they can swallow.

You need to feed them feeder guppies, goldfish or minnows for protein and calcium daily drop 20 or so in the tanks and watch them disappear in a few days! When I got these two 36 yrs ago all we had in back then  were goldfish to feed , so after 36 yrs and still going strong. They can eat goldfish! I spend about 175.00 a month on fish ,goldfish and minnows. An Extra  75.00 on leafy greens and dried cubed tubiflex worms.

This way when they swim for their dinner they get exercise also!

They sleep at the bottom of rivers, streams. lakes or ponds or your tank to avoid predators like coyotes,  foxes, owls, hawks, possums, raccoons and even some wide mouth bass.

TOSS in a bird cuttle bone in the water for calcium. it will dissolve real slow and if they eat it that’s fine!!

They can have garden worms, meal worms, snails, crickets, flies, crayfish small frogs, dragon flies and  anything that moves only as a treat.

They need leafy greens Romaine, Butter lettuce. (Iceberg and cabbage are bad for them, any other leafy greens will do) for vitamin A that they need at least 3 to 4 times a week.

You probably already know that they get sick easily, shell rot, respiratory sickness, lopsided swimming, coughing, blowing bubbles from their nose.

**Swollen cloudy eyes means lacking in Vitamin A. Which we all need for good eyes. Google ‘vegetables with Vitamin A.

Contact the “www.anapsid.org/societies, for a turtle vet /  rescue in your city and state.

I wish you luck.

Answer 2

hes just used to you. he knows you're his friend and that you're the one who feeds him. my turtles do the same thing. if your mom fed him and took care of him, then he'd be fine with her too, but hes not dumb and he knows what hands feed him

Answer 3

You probably just convinced yourself that that is the case, when really it may not be.

I know my turtle (an RES) fallows my finger, and even my face, back and forth.  

But, if you are the one who feeds him, he may only be accustomed to you.

My turtle slides frantically off his basking spot when anyone enters the room besides me.