Fish & Turtles?

[River Wild]

Can a domestic aquatic turtle (who has lived alone for about 20 years)
live peacefully with tropical fish in the same tank (a big tank)? I
think it would be really cool to have one big tank with both my turtle
and fish in it. It would definitely be a great conversation-starter,
too! ;-)

[rtk]

My 120 gallon tank houses three turtles: red-eared slider, mud, painted.
Plus a huge Convict and another big Cichlid, Giant Danios and a couple
tetras and a surplus of guppies.
http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/e/x/exk7/NewCritterWebStuff/NewCritterPage.html

Ruth Kazez

River Wild wrote:
> Can a domestic aquatic turtle (who has lived alone for about 20 years)
> live peacefully with tropical fish in the same tank (a big tank)? I
> think it would be really cool to have one big tank with both my turtle
> and fish in it. It would definitely be a great conversation-starter,
> too! ;-)

[Dinky]

"River Wild" > wrote in message
om...
> Can a domestic aquatic turtle (who has lived alone for about 20 years)
> live peacefully with tropical fish in the same tank (a big tank)? I
> think it would be really cool to have one big tank with both my turtle
> and fish in it. It would definitely be a great conversation-starter,
> too! ;-)

Providing the fish are either too large or too aggressive (ex: large
cichlids) it should do fine. Domestic turtles are frequently fed small fish,
like goldies, and can catch them rather well despite their apparent
sedentary lifestyle. Bear in mind the water care needed with a (comparably)
dirty amphibian in the same water as your fish.

Are you going to partition the tank, part land, part water? (damn my old
brain, forget the term now)

hth

billy

[River Wild]

rtk > wrote in message >...
> My 120 gallon tank houses three turtles: red-eared slider, mud, painted.
> Plus a huge Convict and another big Cichlid, Giant Danios and a couple
> tetras and a surplus of guppies.
> http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/e/x/exk7/NewCritterWebStuff/NewCritterPage.html
>
> Ruth Kazez

Thanks for showing me the pix! I enjoyed 'em.

My turtle is a Reeve's Turtle.


>
> River Wild wrote:
> > Can a domestic aquatic turtle (who has lived alone for about 20 years)
> > live peacefully with tropical fish in the same tank (a big tank)? I
> > think it would be really cool to have one big tank with both my turtle
> > and fish in it. It would definitely be a great conversation-starter,
> > too! ;-)

[River Wild]

"Dinky" > wrote in message news:<NOQrb.163126$Fm2.144137@attbi_s04>...
> Providing the fish are either too large or too aggressive (ex: large
> cichlids) it should do fine. Domestic turtles are frequently fed small fish,
> like goldies, and can catch them rather well despite their apparent
> sedentary lifestyle. Bear in mind the water care needed with a (comparably)
> dirty amphibian in the same water as your fish.

My turtle has never eaten fish, dead or alive. The only thing he's
ever eaten are store-bought turtle food sticks (Tetra ReptoMin). I've
tried feeding him lettuce and carrots before many, many years ago, but
he only eats the food sticks.

Yeah, the water would prob'ly need to be cleaned more frequently bec.
of the higher soilage due to the bigger turtle feces and larger
uneaten food waste (just one stick uneaten breaks apart and causes a
bigger mess than uneaten fish flakes).

>
> Are you going to partition the tank, part land, part water? (damn my old
> brain, forget the term now)
>

There'd be a basking rock sticking out of the water but that's it.
Turtles need to have a place to bask and so he'd need that, but a rock
does just fine; no need for half the tank to be land.

> hth
>
> billy

[rtk]

River Wild wrote:

>
> My turtle has never eaten fish, dead or alive. The only thing he's
> ever eaten are store-bought turtle food sticks (Tetra ReptoMin). I've
> tried feeding him lettuce and carrots before many, many years ago, but
> he only eats the food sticks.

Mine will only eat fish if they're on the way out. I hand feed them
very large fish food sticks as well as reptomin and goldfish pellets.
They eat huge amounts of lettuce every day, romaine or leaf. Also, when
I have a surplus of crickets for my toads and frogs, I place a few on
their basking rock and they go after them enthusiastically.

Ruth Kazez