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CARE OF CHICKEN TURTLES

Our Turtle & Tortoise Care Sheets are meant as a general guideline to caring for your Turtle/Tortoise. Every specific species requires it's own unique care - while many species are overlapping and can be kept with other species that have similar needs.

For even more details about the needs of a specific species - or for ideas about which different species will go well together (many do), please contact us by phone or email - thank you.

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GENERAL

Chicken turtles are loved by those who keep them. Their alert yet inquisitive nature, beautiful reticulated shells, and vertically striped rumps are some of their endearing qualities.

DISTRIBUTION

Chicken turtles are found from Virginia south to Florida and west to Missouri, Oklahoma, and Texas.

SIZE

Adult female chicken turtles can attain 9-10 inches (25 cm). Mature males are slightly smaller.

ENVIRONENT & ENCLOSURE

Chicken turtles are found in still waterways in nature. Ponds, lakes, and swamps. Their enclosure should be very similar to that described for Sliders but we place a rock or piece of driftwood at the outlet for the filter to keep the water from being dropped too aggressively back into the enclosure. We also add some oak leaves and a few extra live plants to give these secretive babies some extra hiding spots. Adding an extra basking spot or two is also recommended.

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MADIGASCAR WATER TURTLES View All
Madagascar Big Headed Side Necked Turtle
MAINLAND AFRICAN WATER TURTLES View All
African Helmeted Turtles	East African Serrated Side-Necked Turtle	West African Side Necked Turtles
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ASIAN WATER TURTLES View All
Albino Chinese Softshelled Turtle	Asian Leaf Turtle	Black Spotted Pond Turtles	Chinese Golden Thread Turtles
Hypo Pastel Pink Belly Sideneck Turtle	Hypo Pastel Pink Belly Sideneck Turtle (Yearling)	Kwangtung River Turtles	Painted River Terrapin
Parker's Snake-Necked Turtles	Parker's Snake-Necked Turtles Adults	Pink Belly Side Necked Turtle	Pink Belly Snappers
Reeves Turtles	Reimann's Snake Necked Turtle	Siebenrock's Snake Necked Turtle	Siebenrock's Snake Necked Turtle (Yearlings and Two Year Olds)
Spiny Turtle	Vietnamese Pond Turtle
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AUSTRALIAN WATER TURTLES View All
MacLeay River Turtle
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EUROPEAN WATER TURTLES View All
Caspian Pond Turtles	European Pond Turtles
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COOTER View All
Hypo Pastel Peninsula Cooter	Peninsula Cooter	Southern River Cooters
MAP TURTLES View All
Cagle's Map Turtle	High Orange Mississippi Map Turtles	High Orange Ouachita Map Turtles	Leucistic Mississippi Map Turtle
Mississippi Map Turtles	Northern Black Knobbed Map Turtle	Ouachita Map Red Eared Slider Hybrids	Ouachita Map Turtles
Pearl River Map Turtle	Southern Black Knobbed Map Turtle	Super High Orange Mississippi Map Turtles	Texas Maps
The Common Map Turtle	Yellow Blotched Map Turtle
MUD AND MUSK TURTLES View All
Adult Red Cheeked Mud Turtles	Chiapas Giant Musk Turtle	Florida Mud Turtle	Florida Mud Turtle: Hatchlings
Mexican Giant Musk Turtle (Hatchlings)	Mexican Giant Musk Turtles (2 and 3 Year Olds)	MIssissippi Red Bellied Mud Turtles	Narrow Bridged Musk Turtle
Narrow Bridged Musk Turtle (Adult)	Razorback Musk Turtle	Red Cheeked Mud Turtles	Red Cheeked Mud Turtles (Hatchlings)
Stinkpot Musk Turtles	Three Striped Mud Turtle	White Lipped Mud Turtles - Yealings and Two Year Olds	White-Lipped Mud Turtles (Hatchlings/Juveniles)
Yellow Mud Turtles (2 to 3 Year old Juveniles)	Yellow Mud Turtles (Adults)	Yellow Mud Turtles (Hatchlings and Yearlings)
OTHER NORTH AMERICAN TURTLES View All
Blanding's Turtles	Caramel Pastel Spotted Turtle	Eastern Chicken Turtle	Florida Chicken Turtles
High Colored Florida Chicken Turtles	Spotted Turtles	Western Pond Turtles
PAINTED TURTLES View All
Eastern Painted Turtles	High Colored Southern Painted Turtles	MIdland Painted Turtles	Southern Painted
Western Painted Turtles	Wide Striped Southern Painted Turtles
RED BELLIED TURTLES View All
Florida Red Bellied Turtles	High Orange Florida Red Bellied Turtle (Yearling)	Northern Red Bellied Turtles
SLIDERS View All
Albino Red Eared Slider	Albino Yellow Bellied Sliders	Belize Slider	Calico Yellow Bellied Sliders
Caramel Pink Albino Red Eared Sliders	Cumberland Sliders	Ghost Red Eared Sliders	Golden Leucistic Red Eared Sliders
Half Black, Half Green Yellow Bellied Slider	Hypo Pastel Red Eared Sliders	Hypo Pastel Red Eared Sliders - Extra Scutes	Hypo Pastel Yellow Bellied Sliders
Hypo Translucent Red Eared Slider	Hypo Translucent Red Eared Slider (Golden Phase)	Lemon Yellow Albino Red Eared Sliders	Leucistic Albino Red Eared Sliders
Melanistic Red Eared Slider (Adults)	Mexican Ornate Sliders	Red Eared Slider	Rio Grande Red Eared Sliders
Shell less Red Eared Sliders	Siamese Red Eared Slider	Siamese Yellow Bellied Slider	Snow Albino Red Eared Sliders
Three Headed Turtles	True Siamese Red Eared Sliders	Two Faced Red Eared Slider	Two Headed Red Eared Slider
Two Headed Yellow Bellied Slider	World's First Albino Yellow Bellied Sliders	Yellow Bellied Sliders
SNAPPING TURTLES View All
Albino Common Snapping Turtles	Cinnamon Common Snapping Turtles	Common Snapping Turtles	Florida Snapping Turtle
Hatchling Juvenile Hypo Melanistic Common Snapping Turtles	Hypo Melanistic Common Snapping Turtles	Leucistic Common Snapping Turtle	Super Hypo Melanistic Common Snapping Turtle
Translucent Hypomelanistic Common Snapping turtle	Two Headed Common Snapping Turtle
SOFT SHELLED TURTLES View All
Albino Chinese Softshelled Turtle	Clown Florida Soft-shelled Turtle	Florida Soft-shelled Turtles	High Orange Florida Softshelled Turtles
Hybrid Florida and Spiney Softshells	Smooth Soft Shells	Spiny Softshells
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SOUTH AMERICAN WATER TURTLES View All
Argentine Side Necked Turtle	Black Spiny-Necked Swamp Turtle	Matamata	Matamata (Hatchlings)
South American Snake Necked Turtle	Yellow Spotted River Turtle
CLOSE [x]TURTLE TUBS:
WATER TURTLE TUB View All
Black Water Turtle Tub	Blue Water Turtle Tub

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WOOD TURTLES View All
Black Wood Turtle	Chinese Golden Coin Turtle (Adults)	High Yellow North American Wood Turtles	Hypo Pastel North American Wood Turtle
Japanese Wood Turtles	Mexican Red Wood Turtles	North American Wood Turtles	Painted Wood Turtles
Spotted-Legged Wood Turtle	Vietnamese Wood Turtles
BOX TURTLES View All
Asian Box Turtles	Chinese Golden Box Turtles	Chinese Golden Box Turtles (Adult)	Chinese Golden Coin Turtle
Hatchling Ornate Box Turtles	McCord's Box Turtle	Ornate Box Turtles	Ornate Box Turtles (Adult )

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GARDEN POND TURTLES View All
Argentine Side Necked Turtle	European Pond Turtles (Adults)	Florida Red Bellied Turtle (Adult)	Florida Soft Shelled Turtles (5 to 8 inch Pond Size)
Florida Soft-shelled Turtles - Small Garden Pond & Large Tanks Size	Mississippi Map Turtles	Ouachita Map Turtles For Garden Ponds	Painted River Terrapin
Red Eared Sliders (Pond Size)	Rio Grande Red Eared Sliders Extra Large Adults	Southern Painted Turtles for Garden Ponds	Western Painted Turtles (Adult)

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Black Greek Tortoises	Complete Tortoise Habitat (Medium)	Golden Greek Tortoises	Golden Greek Tortoises (Adult )
Greek Tortoises (Adult )	Greek Tortoises (Normal Colored)	Hermans Tortoises	Leopard Tortoise
Leopard Tortoise (Adult )	Marginated Tortoises	Marginated Tortoises (3 Year Olds)	Red Footed Tortoise
Red Footed Tortoises (Adult)	Russian Tortoise (Jumbo Female Adult)	Russian Tortoise (Yearlings)	Russian Tortoises (Adult )
Russian Tortoises (Well Started Juveniles)	Speke's Hingeback Tortoise	Sulcata Tortoise	Sulcata Tortoises (Adult )
Yellow Footed Tortoises	Yellow Footed Tortoises (Adult )	Yellow Footed Tortoises (Four Year Olds)
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"Peace Sign" Red Footed Tortoise	Aberrant Leopard Tortoises	African Pancake Tortoise (Hatchlings and Yearlings)	African Pancake Tortoise (Young Adults)
Aldabra Tortoise	Aldabra Tortoise (Hatchlings)	Aldabra Tortoise - 13 Year Olds	Amazon Basin Yellow Footed Tortoises
Black Cherry Head Red Footed Tortoise	Black Red Footed Tortoise	Black Yellow Footed Tortoise	Blonde Red Footed Tortoises
Bolivian Cherry Headed Red Footed Tortoises	Burmese Black Mountain Tortoise	Burmese Brown Mountain Tortoise	Burmese Star Tortoise
Cherry Head Red Footed Tortoises	Chocolate Colored Red Footed Tortoise	Elongated Tortoises	Forstens Tortoise
Ghost Red Footed Tortoise	Golden Yellow Footed Tortoises:	Grenada Island Red Footed Tortoises	High Color Red Footed Tortoises
High Colored Cherry Head Red Footed Tortoise	High White Leopard Tortoise	High Yellow Forstens Tortoise	High Yellow Indian Star Tortoises
Honey Colored Red Footed Tortoise	Indian Star Tortoises	Indian Star Tortoises (Four and Five Year Olds)	Ivory Cherry Head Red Footed Tortoise
Kleinman's Tortoise	Madagascar Flat Shelled Spider Tortoise	Malagasy Spider Tortoise	One Of A Kind Red Footed Tortoise
One Of A Kind Sulcatta Tortoise	Possible Hybrid Red Foot Yellow Foot Tortoises	Radiated Tortoise	Serrated Hinge Backed Tortoises
South African Giant Leopard Tortoises	Sri Lankan Star Tortoises	Sri Lankan Star Tortoises (2 to 3 Year Olds)	Travancore Tortoise
Travencore, Elongated Hybrid Tortoises
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Complete Tortoise Habitat (Medium)

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Tortoise Diet
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Water Turtle Diet

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Coral Fern Mats	Exoterra Boxwood Bush	Exoterra Fan Wort	Exoterra Turtle Grass
Exoterra Water Lettuce	Linden Mat	Springeri Mat
CLOSE [x]BASKING PLATFORMS AND DOCKS View All
Exoterra Turtle Bank (Large)	Exoterra Turtle Bank Medium PT3801	Exoterra Turtle Bank Small	Floating Basking Platform (Large 18 inch)
Floating Basking Platform (Medium 12 inch)	Floating Basking Platform (Small 10 inch)	Zilla Basking Platform (Jumbo Ramp)	Zilla Basking Platform (Large Corner Ramp)
Zilla Basking Platform (Large Ramp)	Zilla Basking Platform (Small Corner Ramp)	Zilla Basking Platform (Small Ramp)	ZooMed Floating Aquarium Log (Medium)
ZooMed Floating Turtle Log (Large)	ZooMed Turtle Dock (Large 40 Gallons)	ZooMed Turtle Dock (Medium 15 Gallons)	ZooMed Turtle Dock (Mini)
ZooMed Turtle Dock (Small 10 Gallons)
CLOSE [x]BOOKS View All
Sulcatas African Spurred Tortoises in Captivity (PBS)	Turtles in Captivity (PBS)
CLOSE [x]FOOD SUPPLEMENTS AND VITAMINS View All
Combo Repti Rock Food and Water Dishes (Medium)	Combo Repti Rock Food and Water Dishes (Small)	Miner All Indoor Tortoise Formula (6oz)	Miner All Indoor Tortoise Formula 3oz
Miner All Outdoor Tortoise Formula (3oz)	Miner All Outdoor Tortoise Formula 6oz	Rep Cal Calcium Supplement with Vitamin D3	Tortoise Diets
Water Turtle Diets
CLOSE [x]LIGHTING FIXTURES AND UVB LIGHT BULBS View All
Deluxe Porcelain Brooder Lamp 10 inch (Black)	Deluxe Porcelain Clamp Lamp 5.5 inch (Black)	Deluxe Porcelain Clamp Lamp 8.5 inch (Black)	Exo Terra LCD Thermometer
Fluorescent Bulb 15 inch (ReptiSun 5.0 UVB)	Fluorescent Bulb 18 inch (ReptiSun 5.0 UVB)	Fluorescent Bulb 24 inch (ReptiSun 5.0 UVB)	Fluorescent Bulb 36 inch (ReptiSun 5.0 UVB)
Fluorescent Bulb 48 inch (ReptiSun 5.0 UVB)	Mini Deep Dome Lamp Fixture	PowerSun UV 100W (Mercury Vapor)	PowerSun UV 160W (Mercury Vapor)
Repti Deep Dome Lamp	UVB Bulb 18 inch (ReptiSun 10.0 High Output)	UVB Bulb 24 inch (ReptiSun 10.0 High Output)	UVB Bulb 36 inch (ReptiSun 10.0 High Output)
UVB Bulb 48 inch (ReptiSun 10.0 High Output)	Water Turtle Tub	ZooMed Lamp Stand (10 to 20 Gallons 24 inch)	ZooMed Lamp Stand (20 to100 Gallons 36 inch)
CLOSE [x]SUBSTRATES View All
Exo Terra Large Turtle Pebbles (Natural River Rock)	Exo Terra Small Turtle Pebbles (Natural River Rock)	ZooMed Forest Floor Bed (8 QT)	ZooMed Forest Floor Bedding (24 QT)
CLOSE [x]THERMOMETERS, HEATERS & TIMERS View All
Exo Terra LCD Thermometer	Habitat Heater 18 inch (Zoo Med ReptiTherm)	PE 1 Temp Gun	PE 2 Temp Gun
ZooMed AQUASUN Aquarium Timer	ZooMed ReptiTherm Under Tank Heater (Large 50 to 60 gallons)	ZooMed ReptiTherm Under Tank Heater (Medium 30 to 40 gallons)	ZooMed ReptiTherm Under Tank Heater (Mini 1 to 5 gallons)
ZooMed ReptiTherm Under Tank Heaters (Small 10 to 20 gallons)
CLOSE [x]TORTOISE HABITATS View All
Complete Tortoise Habitat (Medium Starter Tortoise Kit)
CLOSE [x]TURTLE TUBS View All
Black Water Turtle Tub	Blue Water Turtle Tub
CLOSE [x]WATER TURTLE KITS View All

CLOSE [x]AFRICAN WATER TURTLES

MADIGASCAR WATER TURTLES View All

MAINLAND AFRICAN WATER TURTLES View All

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ASIAN WATER TURTLES View All

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AUSTRALIAN WATER TURTLES View All

CLOSE [x]EUROPEAN WATER TURTLES

EUROPEAN WATER TURTLES View All

CLOSE [x]NORTH AMERICAN WATER TURTLES

COOTER View All

MAP TURTLES View All

MUD AND MUSK TURTLES View All

OTHER NORTH AMERICAN TURTLES View All

PAINTED TURTLES View All

RED BELLIED TURTLES View All

SLIDERS View All

SNAPPING TURTLES View All

SOFT SHELLED TURTLES View All

CLOSE [x]SOUTH AMERICAN WATER TURTLES

SOUTH AMERICAN WATER TURTLES View All

CLOSE [x]TURTLE TUBS:

WATER TURTLE TUB View All

CLOSE [x]BOX & WOOD

WOOD TURTLES View All

BOX TURTLES View All

CLOSE [x]GARDEN POND TURTLES

GARDEN POND TURTLES View All

CLOSE [x]GENERAL View All

CLOSE [x]RARE & EXOTIC View All

CLOSE [x]TORTOISE HABITATS View All

CLOSE [x]TORTOISE FOOD View All

CLOSE [x]TURTLE FOOD View All

CLOSE [x]AQUATIC PLANTS View All

CLOSE [x]BASKING PLATFORMS AND DOCKS View All

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CLOSE [x]FOOD SUPPLEMENTS AND VITAMINS View All

CLOSE [x]LIGHTING FIXTURES AND UVB LIGHT BULBS View All

CLOSE [x]SUBSTRATES View All

CLOSE [x]THERMOMETERS, HEATERS & TIMERS View All

CLOSE [x]TORTOISE HABITATS View All

CLOSE [x]TURTLE TUBS View All

CLOSE [x]WATER TURTLE KITS View All

CARE OF CHICKEN TURTLES

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