Can I Keep a Musk Turtle with my 2 Blackmoors

ayra321 said:
no!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! turtles eat goldfish and they dont make very good pets,eventually you will have to build a pond,they dirty up thier tank within hours after cleaning.they dont like to be handled much and have pwerfull jaws! trust me ive had this experience and turtles do not make good pets!!!!!!!!!!
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thats quite a generalization. Musk turtles don't get very big, so they don't need a pond, and they can't eat a 10 in goldfish if they're only about 4 inches long. they make just as good of pets as fish do. Goldfish are messy too, but as long as you have good filtration and do enough gravel vacuuming/water changes, neither are that messy.
 
Hi,
I took back my fish tank and gave the shop a good telling off for lying to me!!!. I have now brought this massive fish tank and put it in my mums living room as it wont fit in my room (shes as obsessed with these fish as me hehe). It also matches the furniture :) its called a Juwel Trigon 350 Aquarium (i had to get a loan off my mum). I'm very excited and my fish love it (i used the water from the previous water and the shop gave me lots of rain water to top it up with). I understand the little turtles can try to eat my fishies..but.......My little sisters friend has 2 musks Marvin and Pebbles and lots of fish, apparently the turtles completely ignore the fish as they are either on there basking rock or walking around on the bottom. I will keep them very well fed and have got frozen blood worms, frozen turtle food and also a few bags of water flees in the fridge to start off with. I am going to buy the turtles later on this week...the shop have advised me that if the turtles go for my fishies i can return them with a full refund. I also was told they only grow to around 5 inches so will not need to go into a pond. I have done alot of research on Northern musk turtles and brought a book. I know a few of u object to keeping these to species together but i wont know unless i try and i really want to try. Can anyone give me any more advise on keepin my turtles??
 
the turtles need a UV heat lamp and dry land (like rocks to sit and bask on). Put the same filter and gravel (unwashed) in the tank, your cycle will be gone otherwise because bacteria resides in the filter cartridge and gravel, not the water. You don't need the rain water either, just use tap water with conditioner in it.

So your aquarium is a 350 gallon? Wow that's big. What are the dimensions?
 
I already put the water and everything in the tank... i didnt have time to condition tap water as the fish would have to live in a bowl whilst it worked. Yea i know the tank isnt fuly cycled but nothing has been washed from the other tank so the good bacteria is still there slightly :) i have used all the same gravel, rocks, ornaments, plants ect. I have got a basking dock things that attaches to the side :) i have also got a big piece of drift wood which leans against the side of the tank and sticks out the top a little.
 
What do you have for conditioner?

If you have chlorine or chloramine in you source water you risk losing both fish and bacteria.

Since you used aged water and "rain water" I think you are fine for now...but if you use tap in the future (which I suggest) you'll need a conditioner most likely.
 
Ah, I thought she was talking about gallons.

i didnt have time to condition tap water as the fish would have to live in a bowl whilst it worked.
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Water condition is pretty much immediate. You just drip in the right amount.
 
Oh ok thankyou i didnt realise that :). The shop said to put the old water with the rain water and half a bottle of this stuff i think its called 'safe tank' not completely sure, and a drop of stress coat. They also said to put the other half of the bottle in the next day. Which i have done i took the water in to be tested yday and have also brought some testing strips :) the waters got slightly high nitrite but thats all :)
 
You will need good filtration because turtles are notoriously messy eaters or you can remove the turtles at feeding time and put them in a different container like a dish pan to feed them and then put them back in the tank after they are fed.
 
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