Keeping a Pet Turtle
25 Mar 2010
Information is a necessary part of understanding your pet. With the general turtle care sheets and guide books you will have this information at your fingertips. The care sheets are easy to read and understand and can be kept next to the turtles enclosure to use as a handy reference. The guide books will go into more detail and is something you should keep on hand for an in depth account of how to raise a healthy turtle.
The general turtle care sheets will begin with an overview of the turtle. It provides a description, scientific name, common name, average lifespan and how large the turtle is expected to get. The information that you get from the general turtle care sheet can help you decide if a turtle is the right pet for you.
Continuing down the page of the general turtle care sheet you will find out about housing, maintenance, food and if special lighting or heating elements are needed. There may be very little information about some of these subjects because they don’t apply to a turtle.
The general turtle care sheet will give you ideas on what type of things to put in your turtles enclosure, whether it is a terrarium or tank. You will find out what plants you could put with the turtle and what type of item a turtle needs to bask on. Turtles do need to exit the water and dry out completely so in the general turtle care sheets and guide books you can explore what works best for this purpose.
In our turtle guide book section of this web site you will find volumes by Aqualog, Zoo Med, Eco books as well as magazines. The guide books will give you insight into turtles from Africa, Europe, Central America, South America, South and East Asia and North America.
These guide books will be covering many different species and will discuss their habitats, mating rituals, hatching and juveniles. They provide descriptive symbols of their captive needs as well. The guide books come with excellent colour photographs and maps showing the distribution of the species. These guide books can be used by people wishing to raise turtles or by scientists that wish to study them in depth.
Learn more about keeping a turtle for the first time
If you are a private turtle breeder or thinking about becoming one the Eco Freshwater Turtles guide book is a must read. The book shares ideas and helps breeders establish captive breeding programmes. These volumes work toward helping breeders give turtles a more interesting environment to live in.
Zoo Med offers guide books on the proper care and maintenance for water turtles. A leading expert in the field has written this book for every age. It is easy to read and understand. Information that is found in the Zoo Med volume delves into the proper food, enclosures, lighting and heating for your water turtle. Look through the web pages to get even more information about turtles well being as well as everything you need to keep your turtle healthy and happy.
