I have two red ear sliders in a 5 1/2 gallon tank.?

Question

I picked up some rocks from the ocean and i was wondering if i put them in my tank with the turtles is it posible that after cleaning the rocks that the salt water can hurt my turtles????

the turltes are little! they both fit in my hand at the same time!! i put the rocks in water and i let them sit there!! its only been 24 hours! i changed the water and the old water smelled very strong like beach water! SALTY!! WHAT TO DO THE ROCKS ARE SO PRETTY!!!

Answer 1

Clean the rocks well with dish soap and hot water, then boil them. This will remove anything on them that could harm your turtles.

Your turtles will need a habitat upgrade shortly. They get quite large.

Answer 2

Wash the rocks real well.

5 1/2 gallons? Are these hatchlings?

Best to invest in a larger tank.

My 2 sliders stay in a kiddie pool with an island in the center. Yours will need something larger very soon if not now.

Answer 3

Honestly, I doubt it. That little amount of salt I doubt would do any damage. I'd be more worried about the rock edges being sharp. As the turtles get bigger, none of this will matter as they will get tougher.

Answer 4

are your turtles big cuz they will not fit in the tank soon i have a 30
gallon tank and it fits 1 and yes salt water rocks do hurt your turtle.

Answer 5

Feeder products: stay feeder fish (guppies, goldfish, minnows), earthworms, crickets, waxworms, earthworms, silkworms, aquatic snails, blood worms, daphnia, shrimp, krill, mealworms. for terribly small turtles, prey might could be decrease into smaller products. bigger turtles could be provided bigger products like tadpoles. Leafy vegetables: collard, mustard and dandelion vegetables, kale, bok choy. Head (iceberg) lettuce could on no account be feed because it includes little or no nutrition, yet darkish green leaf lettuces (e.g romaine) could be feed sparingly Aquatic plant life: in an aquarium or pond you could upload aquatic plant life on which turtles many times like to snack. Submerged plant life like anacharis are many times eaten, as are water hyacinth, water lettuce, duckweed, azolla (fairy moss), and frog-bit. different vegetables: carrots (tops are superb too), squash and green beans. supplements a solid reptile multivitamin with calcium and nutrition D3 shoule be blended with the nutrition a pair of instances a week. additionally, an spectacular thank you to furnish extra calcium is thru putting a cuttlebone interior the turtle tank. those are many times avaiable interior the chook area, and that they are able to be affixed to the tank or only floated interior the water Set them on a 20 gallon tank in line with dozen turtles . furnish them with a dry land section and a shallow water section. Newborns could grasp the artwork of floating and staying underwater for long sessions of time. do no longer assume that they're going to survive basically with water. newborn pink-Ear sliders can definitely drown in case you ignore them a dry land section. The water could be no longer too deep. As with person sliders, newborns could have their finished spectrum gentle. So do no longer forget approximately to incorporate that interior the tank. the full spectrum gentle will help the newborn shells to harden. save the water well clean. in case you haven't any longer have been given a filter out replace the water each 2 days. it rather is amazingly substantial via fact that toddler sliders are extra services to getting eye infections (which could flow away them blind for existence or maybe kill them) than person sliders. save the water well clean, furnish him with an entire spectrum gentle, save him heat (approximately 80 tiers), and upload nutrition supplements to his nutrition plan. make advantageous the supplements are severe in nutrition A and calc they are friendly yet continually wash your hands after, some carry salomales