Housing Painted Turtles. Since painted turtles are aquatic turtles, they will spend the majority of their time swimming and ...

Rather than buying from a pet store, adopting a turtle from a ... The best turtle varieties for beginners are male painted turtles. These include U.S. mud and musk turtles and male red-eared ...

Popular pet turtle breeds include ... plan to have a shallow pan of water for splashing. Western painted turtle. Sometimes confused with the red-eared slider based on coloration, these turtles ...

The red-eared slider and the painted turtle are both fascinating turtles which are popular pets around the world, with the painted turtle being second in popularity only to the red-eared slider.

(James Harding) When biologist Aimee Mitchell began her tally of endangered coastal western painted turtles 15 years ago, she says it was impossible to ignore the number of discarded pet turtles ...

Painted turtle populations are considered generally ... which can enter the environment when people who buy them at pet shops later "set them free" – compete with native turtles for habitat ...