Red ear slider turtle pregnant acting crazy?

Question

all day she bangs her head on the tank its 55 gallons and shes 5-6 inches and she doesnt eat and she has light heater and a stand . i tried to give her everything to eat but she doesnt want it (shrimp ,turtle food, etc) and shes about 5 yrs old.she mated but she only laid two eggs and it doesnt look like shell lay anymore because its been 1.5 months since mating whats wrong with her?shes driving me CRAzY!!!!!!!!

Answer 1

You really need to have an exotic vet take a look at her. A trick Ive learned to get turtles to eat is bait worms. Like the night crawlers. If they will eat nothing else they will eat these. Youll have to cut them up though, and it will be gross.

Answer 2

she needs to bury those eggs, you need to take her out into a place w water, and sand/ dirt, this is serious, take her out NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 3

i think shes tryingto get away freom the eggs turtles usually just lay their eggs bury em and leave

Answer 4

sounds like she is going stir crazy.Do you have a lite 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.

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

You need a good filter system.

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

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

And a big tank . Get a kiddy wadding pool fill with water and let her hange outside. Get the goldfish...they need that most and she will stop banging her head if she has fish to catch and siomething to do, like exercise!

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