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If you have any questions regarding housing, keeping and sickness of turtles, do not hesitate to write us a mail (verein@wasserschildkroete.de), we will answer them within a day. Basic rules for the care of aquatic turtles Each aquatic turtle (adult) needs at about 300 litres of water (this is also the minimum quantity for two adult turtles, as they should not be kept alone) in a heated water basin ( 86 degrees Fahrenheit for the water and for the air is an ideal temperature for aquaturtles up to 10 cm, for larger turtles 82,4 degrees Fahrenheit are necessary). Please note: below 82,4 degrees Fahrenheit the turtles may catch a cold which may soon become pneumonia. Keep the turtles warm and they won't get sick. The lower the temperature, the weaker the immune system. The ideal temperature for digestion is 91,4 degrees Fahrenheit.Place three glass panes on the aquarium at night. At day remove the glass pane under the UV light bulb and switch on the bulb. Aquariums which are not covered at night lead to a cold and pneumonia of the turtles because of the temperature difference between the room temperature and the aquarium temperature. A cold/pneumonia can be recognized when the following symptoms occur: swollen eyes, pink or light pink plastron. Then visit the veterinarian and ask him to inject 1 ml Doxyhexal (this is a fluid containing 100 mg of Doxycyclijn per 5 ml fluid) under the skin of the thigh. The turtle gets gets another injection with the same dosis after two days , a third injection after another two days, the fourth injection after another two days and the last injection after another two days. During these injections and two months afterwards the turtle should be kept at 91,4 degrees Fahrenheit for recuperation. Without these 91.4 degrees Fahrenheit no recuperation is possible because the turtle needs the warmth to get healthy again. Separate males and females. The males bite the females and this causes stress and lesions. A ZOOMED Powersun HQI UV light bulb above land area is necessary; under the UV-lamp a temperature of 100,4 up to 113 degrees Fahrenheit should be reached. You also need an external filter with a capacity of five up to seven times the volume of the water basin, i.e. if you have a water basin of two hundred liters for your turtles, the filter must have a capacity of 1000 litres. The fourth part of the water must be changed weekly. The turtles need a land area where they can sit under a heat lamp which has a distance of 30 cm to the turtles (UV A and UV B is necessary for the self-production of vitamin D3; without extra UV bulbs they will get rachitis, a deficit of Vitamin D3 which leads to a weakening of the bones and to a deformed shell and even to death). An infrared bulb is good for turtles, but the exposition of the aquatic turtles to the infrared light should not exceed two hours per day and the distance to the turtles should be at about 50 cm. An oxygen pump is also necessary because the useful bacteria called Nitrobacter which live in the filter and which help to filter the water need oxygen. The basin/aquarium must be heated with a heater rod. The land area can be constructed with cork, for example. The cork can be glued to the sides of the water basin with special silicone used only for this purpose. It is also possible to have a land area made of glass. This is more hygienical than cork which rots and which should be therefore exchanged after two years. Stones and roots lead to a pollution of the water and lots of algae. The water basin can be decorated with non-toxical plants like papyros. The turtles like sweet water fish, dried fish and and pellets, but no cat or dog food. Cat and dog food is cheap, but causes gout. Salt water fish is hardly digestible for aquatic turtles, as they live in sweet water. Some species like bananas and salad, especially Pseudemis floridana and Pseudemis concinna. Some swamp turtles like can swallow food at land, in contrast to aquatic turtles which need water to swallow the food. Beef heart should not be fed to often as it reduces the calcium level of the turtles. They especially need vitamin A, D3 and E, which can be either applied to the fish as a powder mixed with calcium. These vitamines are essentially for the aquatic turtles because the prevent illnesses of the eyes and of the caparax (deformations). It is dangerous for the health of the aquatic turtles to leave them in the garden pond in winter because the European winter is twice as long as the American winter (most aquatic turtles sold are American species). Turtles left in the garden pond for hibernation get pneumoniosis or are prey to rats. Make sure that the aquatic turtles cannot escape into the garden and that there are no toxic plamts in the area fenced in for them around the garden pond. Artificial hibernation, as hibernation in general, is definitively not necessary for the fertility of the aquatic turtles. Asian aquatic turtles cannot be kept in the garden pond even in summer because the climate in Asia is much hotter than the North or Middle European climate. It is recommended to take care of the origin of the sweet water fish that is feeded to the aquatic turtles - Danish sweet water fish is treated in general with antibiotica. This remedy is used in large-scale fish breeding because the fish get sick because of of lack of space to move. The meat of sweet water fish treated with antibiotica is weak and tasteless, and the aquatic turtles get sick more often because the antionbiotica the fish was treated with weaken their immune system. The antiobiotica kill useful bacteria in the intestinal tract of the tutrles. Therefore sweet water fish bred without antiobiotica should be preferred, i.e. from small or private breeding in the mountains or in rural areas. 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