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Red Eared Slider Information

Handling To hold a Red slider properly you have to hold it like a hamburger but don’t squeeze him or her too hard. If you have one of the baby you try not to pick it to much or it might hurt the turtle

Feeding You need to feed your RES both animal and plant mater because RES are omiervors but the younger RES need more animal than plant and elders are the opposite of the young. treats are shrimp, chicken, cucumber ,crickits and tomatoes .For calcium give you RES cuttlebone. You need every three days consisting of a diet of worms ,aquatic plants, land plants and natural foods .Give your turtle half a handful of food ,and put it into the water so he can eat it because he dose’nt produce Saliava.

Cleaning tanks

1 Remove your RES 2 Remove equipment 3 Empty tank water and thoroughly wash tank 4 Wash equipment 5 squirt some antimicomble on the sides of the tank and surface 6 Rinse the equipment and the decoration 7 Replace equipment and decoration 8 Refill the tank 9 Allow equipment to run for 30-45 minites 10 place your turtle back into the tank

Habitat They need a uv light so they can use it as a sun. They need amuseing decorations so he doest get bored. pebbles so the grounds has more grip. sea weed as a decorations .land platfromes because he canot just stay in water.