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Pumpkin asked in PetsReptiles · 9 years ago

Is it ok if my baby red eared slider turtle in an air conditioned room ?

My room is like 15 degrees and the water in his bowl always get cold. What should i do ?

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  • Robert
    Lv 7
    9 years ago
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    No offense, but you are doing a lot of things that are detrimental to the turtle's heath. No turtle should live in a bowl, ever. It is living in its own. urinary and fecal waste until you change the bowl, and this will accumulate more and more stress. it is a male it needs a 15 gallon tank, if a female a 30. Males get 7 inches long, females over 10 and much bulkier.

    Once you get it into a tank, you should have a fair number of accessories. It needs an over head 5%V B light or it will get metabolic bone and shell disease. It needs filter in a tank and they make lots of medium sized submersible turtle tank filters. It needs a basking spot out the water, either on gravel or a floating platform, with an overhead basking light that raises its temperature to 85 degrees. Without the baking light (at least 6 hour s a day) and the UV (at least 10 hours a day) , it will get stunted and sick. If your room goes below 65 at night, it needs a small water heater as well.r

    You can keep your room at cold as you want if you provide the turtle a reasonable environment. i'm in much the same situation with my Bearded Dragon. He lives in my living room near the big air conditioner.. But he'd in a 55 gallon gallon tank so he doesn;t catch a cold breeze, he has both his lights overhead, and 2 basking logs and is very healthy and happy.

    i know it is a financial burden to keep turtles properly. It will probably cost another

    $100 to ge all the things it needs. Even when I was in graduate school, we never knew about UV lighting. Neither did the Bronx Zoo in th 1980's, and a lot of turtles got sick or died.

    So if the animal means a lot to you as a pet, get him his essentials. Start with a tank and the UV B light. You can make a basking light with a cheap clamp lamp and a 100 watt bulb. you can built a basking platform from rocks. and gravel or stream stones. the heater will be about 30 dollars, and you need to keep his water about 76-80 year round or he will hibernate. The filter will cost about the same.

    Good Luck.

    Source(s): Robert Price, Ph/d, Herpetology, Past President of New York and LI Herp Societies
  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    OMG! do no longer launch that turtle. people freeing their RES pets outside the organic variety were accountable for fouling up the habitat for the interior reach turtles, a number of that are threatened or endangered. i'm afraid that someone already did that close to you if there are little ones wandering round loose. RES require a minimum of 10 gallons of water in accordance to inch of shell and they improve with out delay. They feed in the water and the little ones are carnivorous. try earthworms, bait fishes, and liver -- no vegetables till they mature.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    That made me horny.

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