How old do you think my turtle is?

Question

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Answer 1

What a pretty RES! Congratulations!
Nice pictures too.
Age can be hard to tell, but based on the size of your tank's turtle dock and the one's l've seen in pet stores, it looks like a relatively young female between 2 - 3 years old.
They can get to be much older and have really curious, nosey personalities. Loads of fun! Keep up the good work!

Answer 2

Hard to determine without a close up of the scoots. You can roughly tell a turtles age by counting the rings on the scoots.As it matures ,new, slightly larger, scoots develop beneath the existing ones. There will be subtle variations, due to variables such as diet, health, and weather.

Answer 3

He might be about 1 1/2 to 2 1/2 years old mine is the about same size as yours and he's 22 months old.

Answer 4

well if that raft thing the turtle is sitting on n its the same one as mine n its a red eared slider i would probley say 2-3 years unless its in a smalltank then it cant grow very big so it would be 4-5 years. i have 3 turtles !!!

Answer 5

There is no context here. Please measure it or photo it against a ruler.

Even knowing the length, however, isn't going to help a lot. The only way to KNOW the age of a turtle is to have seen it be born. They grow in far too irregular of a fashion to be able to say that such and such length equals this age.

Answer 6

Because I have had sliders in the past my guess would be that it is about 3 years old. With turtles it is hard to tell.

Answer 7

I agree with Madkins, but there are ways to guess, or at least determine if it is fully matured or still maturing. Here is a nice article with different things to look for:

http://www.turtlecare.net/age.htm

Answer 8

NICE TURDLE!! Maybe like 4 years.