What other animals can live with red eared slider turtles?

Question

can stingrays, starfish, crabs, snails, hermit crabs, catfish, blugill, or other water animals live with them.

Answer 1

anything thats salt water no.stingrays no,crabs if there freshwater i suppose,hermits no,catfish depends on size of cage same with blue gill, goldfish can but they will eat them.  

Answer 2

The easiest way to answer is to say nothing even other turtles.Everything in the tank is going to be food sooner or later

Answer 3

First off some of the things you mentioned seem to be saltwater creatures. How big is your RES turtles? I wouldn't put anything in the tank with sliders unless you plan on it being eaten. There are other turtles that can coexist with Red Ear Sliders. I hope you know how big Red Ear Sliders get.

Answer 4

These turtles eat EVERYTHING.  They will even nibble @ each other @ times.  I was keeping four of them (eventually to be dispersed as pets for nephews) and they ate everything that went into the tank.  They even ate the plants in the tank.

Answer 5

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Sliders  eat anything that moves, cooter, painted, map, yellow bellied all are basically the same and require the same basic care and they can be with a slider...as long as you have plenty of room and fish to eat at will.

The bigger the environment the bigger the healthier the turtle at least a 55 plus size tank.

Did you know that they need to bask under a reptile light UVA 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.

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!

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 worm, meal worms, crickets, flies, crayfish and  anything that moves!

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.

I wish you luck.

Answer 6

To the best of my knowledge, none of those animals you listed can live with red ear sliders. Maybe certain species of freshwater snail? And probably some species of fish... but I seriously recommend not trying it unless you are absolutely sure what you're doing.