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High Colored Southern Painted Turtle

$99.00 - $129.00
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Product Description

Every few years a few Southern Paints with these impressive colors show up. Three of these brilliantly colored Southern Painted Turtles turned up out of last year's hatchlings. Their dorsal stripes are extraordinarily wide, and they each have bright yellow/orange shell colorations. Their behavior and care is identical to that of normal southern Painted Turtles and follows:

Southern Painted Turtles ( Chrysemys picta dorsalis )are found on both sides of the Mississippi river south through Missouri, to the gulf coast of Louisiana, and east through northern Mississippi and Alabama. Southern Painted Turtles are the smallest of all the Painted Turtles, rarely growing over 5 inches. One of the prettiest, they have a distinct yellow to orange/red dorsal stripe. Southern Painted Turtles have a bit more tolerance for warmer weather, and do well in outdoor ponds in warmer climates.

Southern Painted Turtles, like all painted turtles, start out as carnivores, and become more herbivorous as they get older. We feed ours pelleted water turtle diet, dark leafy greens and cut fish. Adults have a very elegant courtship ritual where the male and female take turns stroking each other with their foreclaws, and moving away from and towards each other. They are diurnal, sleeping on the bottom at night, and becoming active in day light. Just like other Painted Turtles, Southern Painted Turtles love to bask and forage about their tanks or ponds. In the wild, as many as 50 can be seen basking on the same log. They quickly learn to recognize their keepers and come to feeding. They make fine, colorful additions to community tanks and ponds.

Other Details

Common Name:
High Colored Southern Painted Turtle
Scientific Name:
Chrysemys picta dorsalis
Level:
Starter to Intermediate
Restricted States:
OR, WA, HI, TX, GA
Turtle Category:
North American Water Turtles
Turtle Subcategory:
Painted Turtles

Warranty Information

We offer a 7 day health guarantee on our captive bred animals only provided all conditions are met as listed in our Terms and Conditions page.

Reviews

  • 3
    on the high coloured southern painted turtle

    Posted by Austin on Mar 12th 2024

    it is never in stock

  • 5
    Healthy & happy

    Posted by Steve on Oct 13th 2022

    The 2 Southern Painted Turtles are beautiful. The well started hatchlings showed up very well packed & were very healthy. They were sent fast and packaged extremely professionally. You can have UPS text you delivery updates so you know extremely when your turtles arrive. As soon they went into the tank they were already well adapted, active & accepted food right away, which is always a good sign. As well as all that the turtles are beautiful. Any turtles I ever recieved from them have been very healthy. You can tell they are coming somewhere that they have been raised really well and kept iclean & healthy environment. You can tell the turtles health is the highest priority. So the customer service is outstanding. The are extremely professional and very nice people. 5 stars all around !