Goldfish + Turtles?

[Lexi_D]

What species of turtles are these and how big are they? Adults, babies...what?

I do not know, I recently emailed my friend about that and have gotten no reply yet.

The garden would need a fence to keep in the turtles. They will just walk away if they can.

I was planning to put up a fence anyway^^

Assume that the fish will end up as food. However, if the turtles are well-fed and the goldfish are the fast, long-bodied type they may be fine.

Hopefully I'll be able to keep the turtles well fed, and I was going to get comet/feeder goldfish anyway.

Do you know if they have been fed live foods?

Nope.

 

[Sploke]

Be very pessimistic about what kind of fencing will hold in a turtle. I've seen pictures of RESs climbing chain link fences. The best way to keep in aquatic turtles is with a solid rock or block wall with an overhang around the inside. I learned this the hard way last year - I built a rock border about 1' high around my pond and thought, no way they'll be able to climb out of that. Well, 2 of my turtles escaped last summer, so needless to say I'll be rebuilding the edging this spring.

 

[Notophthalmus]

I have half a dozen comets in my slider tank; they were added as 1-2" feeders and are now 4-5" long, fat, and fearless. But don't count on this happening all the time.

 

[ash9494boo]

turtles won't hurt gold fish as long as the gold fish are bigger then the turtle

 

[Notophthalmus]

There are not many turtles that stay smaller than goldfish.

 

[bettagurl]

turtles won't hurt gold fish as long as the gold fish are bigger then the turtle

They'll nip their fins.. my friend's turt took chunks out of goldies 2-"3" bigger than him.

 

[Lexi_D]

Just got the email, they are red-eared sliders. she'll get back to me on the rest.