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Metallica · Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 6:03 pm Post subject: Red Ear Behaviour

I have a 10 year old female red ear turtle and I am wondering if anyone else has a restless turtle during the spring time. It started in early march and she swims quickly, digging and moving the filters and her basking spot around. She has also stopped eating repto-min and only eats some shrimp, grapes and a little bit of romaine lettuce. After her hissy fit she falls asleep for a bit and then poof she is at it again. Now i remove her from the tank when she gets that way and let her walk around so she gets tired lol
SO i am just wondering if it is a spring thing for the turtle to start acting restless. *ALSO earler in march she would start swimming in the middle of the night..*
Thanks

rachelmarie · Level 3 Joined: 11 Dec 2004 Posts: 309

my guy does that all the time. i think he\'s just hyper, but i don\'t take it as anything abnormal.

maybe she\'s outgrown reptomin sticks. i can\'t imagine feeding those to my guys forever.
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purplem3pursuit · Level 2 Joined: 25 Jan 2005 Posts: 66

dixieee · Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 4:01 am Post subject: Re: Red Ear Behaviour

yeah spring time and they\'re happy..mine did it earlier cz spring comes early in here
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Wed 10/27/2004 is the worst day..i lost my best friend Leo

so now i have a female RES, Green, and a cute stupid male YBS, Mint

5/4/2006 RIP Lemon, u were my first rescue and i'm so proud of u. will never 4get u

Carminemily95 · Level 1 Joined: 26 Mar 2005 Posts: 7

Thats how my turtle got sick and died!
Oh Yeah He/She died yesterday!

dixieee · Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2005 12:44 pm Post subject: Re: Red Ear Behaviour

ok i understand how u feel cz i lost my turtle too but don\'t freak ppl around here..something must have been going wrong with ur turtle
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Wed 10/27/2004 is the worst day..i lost my best friend Leo

so now i have a female RES, Green, and a cute stupid male YBS, Mint

5/4/2006 RIP Lemon, u were my first rescue and i'm so proud of u. will never 4get u

rachelmarie · Level 3 Joined: 11 Dec 2004 Posts: 309

shellmate86 · Level 1 Joined: 28 Mar 2005 Posts: 8

no spring here jus summer and rain......turtles been hyper for every season....get me hyper too...LOL.....who ever heard of a hyper pet who gets the owner hyper too...when they start swimming around like crazy i start dancing.....Life is great......Turtles Rulz
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ShelldonandSquirt · Level 2 Joined: 23 Aug 2004 Posts: 28

my bigger turtle, I say bigger because they\'re both the same age and one is twice the size as the other, freaks out all the time, sometimes for no reason at all. I don\'t get it, the smaller one is much more calm, never goes crazy.

dixieee · Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 10:14 am Post subject: Re: Red Ear Behaviour

same weather in here!!

shelldonandsquirt, maybe ur turtle was day-dreaming and when he is interrupted suddenly he freaks out
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Wed 10/27/2004 is the worst day..i lost my best friend Leo

so now i have a female RES, Green, and a cute stupid male YBS, Mint

5/4/2006 RIP Lemon, u were my first rescue and i'm so proud of u. will never 4get u

STRAYKINGFISHER · Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 11:45 am Post subject: Re: Red Ear Behaviour

machen423 · Level 2 Joined: 29 Jul 2004 Posts: 37

Your girl turtle might be nesting...it is spring time and since i have a girl and a boy i know taht they get weird around this time and they start mating....never had any eggs we could salvage though but she always starts moving things around more(she she also does normally) but she digs a lot in the rocks i think looking ofr a place to put her eggs i dunno though just some things i have noticed about my little girl