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bigi1022 · Guest Joined: 21 May 2007 Posts: 2 Location: Texas

im new to this, this is my first post

i have 2 RES- one is tiny (the sie of an advil lid) and i think its a boy.. and the other one is the size of my foot (size 9 womens) and i think its a girl.... the big turtle splashes alot and will only be up on the sun deck whenever noone is around and randomly tries to bite my little turtle and will get the little one up against the glass and wiggle its front arms at it like its trying to hold it or something... the little turtle ust sits on the filter or on the su deck and doesnt show any aggresion at all
im not sure what any of this means
ive tried loooking through this site and everyone gives so many different answers i thought i would just post my own thing

if you could help me i would appreciate it ALOT Smile

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2 turtles-
1 TINY RES (mike)(i think its a boy...)
and
1 largerr RES (i call it stupid turtle, but i still love it)(i think its a girl....)

turtle_grl77 · Level 4 Joined: 18 Nov 2005 Posts: 985 Location: Florida

The bigger one is def a girl. What your discribing is normal. She is being territorial yet doing the typical mating dance. You may have to seperate if the agression gets worse.

bigi1022 · Guest Joined: 21 May 2007 Posts: 2 Location: Texas

thank you i was just wondering
i cant tell if the little one is a boy but i named it mike

should i worry about them trying to mate???
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2 turtles-
1 TINY RES (mike)(i think its a boy...)
and
1 largerr RES (i call it stupid turtle, but i still love it)(i think its a girl....)

JEFF4i · Level 1 Joined: 17 Aug 2006 Posts: 21

Not too much to worry from mating, the boy is a long ways off. They usually are ready to mate around 4-5, from what most websites say.

MinisMommy · Level 3 Joined: 06 Jun 2007 Posts: 103

Be very carefull keeping the two together... if one is a boy and one is a girl the girl will begin to grow much faster than the boy and will probably become aggressive and teratorial towards the male since it will be smaller than she is. And if you don't sepperate them she will more than likely kill him. Also, she will begin to take all of the food so that he wont get any so you will need to start feeding them in sepperate containers. Once they get older and she starts picking on him you will need to get two sepperate set ups... remember the rule of thumb is a gal of water per inch of the turtle. so you are going to need to double that. right now they need to be in atleast 20 gal tank... when they start growing your set up will need to get much much bigger concidering the girl will eventually get to be about 9 in... and the boy about 5.