What can live with a Red Ear Slider?

[Aqua Pro Builder]

Her 5 years old cat fish companion die yesterday.

1)What can live with a Red Eared Slider in the tank?

2)Would her be lonely for having only one animal in her habitat? She is always interested in watching what I do. She seems not interested in other people walking by, including my helpers who would feed her. So should I get her another turtle or just let her walk around in my room? This time she won't get lost because the room is very clean and open-not much place she can hide and me not seeing her.

3)Should I make an in tank filter(partitioning the side) or make a separate sump filter. I have all the parts(except glass hole drill bit) but making a separate sump thing seems a lot of work and hoses coming in out of the tank. Partitioning the side may not have enough area for the eco system to take its course and further take out her swimming space. The new tank is only a small 20G for her to swim and he can crawl out of the tank to bask. Her shell is about 6" and 10 years old now.

This is a winter habitat only. During warmer seasons, she will stay back in the yard.

 

[Deanos]

Cohabitation

 

[Deanos]

Redearslider.com

RES

 

[TimberTDI]

How about a red nosed reindeer?:lol:

 

[Awibrandy]

Hey Wingo, I think you have a male. Female red ear slider turtles at 10yrs. are much bigger. The males grow to 6", OneEyeJack is 18yrs.old now, and has always been alone. I also thought of getting him a companion, and was adviced against it. It was said that they would only fight. Get him another fish friend. A fish that is to big for him to eat it. By the way I think a 20g, is to small. OneEyeJack is in a 30, and I would like to move him into at least a 55.

 

[Aqua Pro Builder]

Hey Wingo, I think you have a male. Female red ear slider turtles at 10yrs. are much bigger. The males grow to 6", OneEyeJack is 18yrs.old now, and has always been alone. I also thought of getting him a companion, and was adviced against it. It was said that they would only fight. Get him another fish friend. A fish that is to big for him to eat it. By the way I think a 20g, is to small. OneEyeJack is in a 30, and I would like to move him into at least a 55.

I have the same concern about the 20G because it has been in my 55g with the beach portion when it was given to me(instead of it's old 29/30 tank), that why I made a stair/bridge for the turtle to climb out with this new 20G. Anyway, the swimming distance seems small. Have to observe a bit to see if it likes it or not.

Hmm, is it a she or he, I am not sure. Just that I was told when RES is thick, it is a female. It's like 3.5 inches thick now, this year it grows at least 1 inch thicker.

 

[Awibrandy]

One of my friends had a female a while back, she was huge incomparison to mine. I thought our rse was not being fed properly, so I inquired from some turtle/turtoise expert, and that is when I was told that it did not grow past 6" because it is a male.

 

[Aqua Pro Builder]

So may be mine is just super fat, instead of a belly, it has a hum. LOL

 

[Awibrandy]

lol

 

[leoskee]

The males have very, very long nails (used to court the female and hold on to her during mating) and a thick, long tail. The female has the opposite.

 

[JLAudio]

get another fish that can tolerate the high ammonia that will result from all the turtles waste. I had large giant danios, with my small snapper and map turtle. Although they were small juvenile turtles, the danios were fast enough to get away from the turtles but seemed to keep them entertained, while being able to handle the cycling phase of tanks aswell ammonia.

Just my experience though

 

[Aqua Pro Builder]

get another fish that can tolerate the high ammonia that will result from all the turtles waste. I had large giant danios, with my small snapper and map turtle. Although they were small juvenile turtles, the danios were fast enough to get away from the turtles but seemed to keep them entertained, while being able to handle the cycling phase of tanks aswell ammonia.

Just my experience though

Giant Danios always tease other predatory animals. Even the biggest fish in my tank cannot get them.

I would not worry ammonia when my own designed eco-system filter is up. I tested it last year, zero ammonia all year long and the water plants in the filter grow so fast they become above-water plants(2 feet out of the water surface).

 

[leoskee]

I had a RES with a crayfish. They got along very well.

 

[Aqua Pro Builder]

I had a RES with a crayfish. They got along very well.

Interesting combo, both animals always give us headaches what other aquatics lives they co inhabit the same tank.

 

[Chiefmcfuz]

Koi and larger goldfish in a pond type setting

 

[jejton]

The males have very, very long nails (used to court the female and hold on to her during mating) and a thick, long tail. The female has the opposite.

Males also have a more concave lower shell. RES do not need companions. They are not social animals and adults do tend to fight if they dont have their own space except when they are mating.