Whats the minum sized tank for 3 turtles??

Question

Whats the minum sized tank for 3 turtles?? the turtles are two yellow bellied sliders and one chinese softshell turtle. whats the minimum tank you can put them in gallons or feet??

Answer 1

I was considering getting one or two turltes one time, and was surprised at how many gallons they require, especially as they grow.

For a yellow bellied slider, you need 35 gallons, plus 20 gallons for each turtle.  

Answer 2

keeping the soft shell with the yellow bellies is not a good idea, because like the other posters said the sliders will pick on the soft shell, since soft shells grow to only 5 inches and yellow bellies 10-12 inches! So i think you should seperate the soft shell, and give him the 56-60 gallon to himself. And go out there and buy at least a 100 gallon tank for the yellow bellies, or better yet build a pond if you live in a sunny location! But you must seperate them, a must.

Answer 3

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You probably already knew that mixing different species is not healthy for the turtles you have together. They have different sickness and sliders can be canabalistic. Once they start growing keep an eye on the softshell cause he'll go first.

***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. You need to know that these guys will become canabalistic and fight for space and food.

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!

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 LOTS of  luck.

Answer 4

theres a rule

1 inch of turtle = 10 gallons of water

Answer 5

Nothing smaller than 60 gallons

Answer 6

If they are all hatchlings, a 30 gallon will be good for now.

If they are adults, you need the largest size stock tank you can find- a larger custom enclosure would be even better.

I would recommend keeping the softshell separate. Other turtles tend to pick on them.