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Did You Ever Thought about Putting a Fish in Your Turtle Tank?
Ispas Marin
Lot of people thinks about putting a fish together with their
turtles in the same water tank. The problem is if you put the
turtle in a fish tank or if you put a fish in a turtle tank.
If you put a turtle in the fish tank some turtle care problems
might appear:
- First of all a fish tank usually doesn't have a land are which
is vital for the turtle. - Fishes are tiny little pets that
usually don't need a very high water level. But the turtles are
bigger and have to swim easily. So the water level in a fish
tank could be to low for a turtle. - In the fish tank the
filtration is usually inappropriate for a turtle so the water
could get dirty very fast. - If you put a turtle in a fish tank
eventually he turtle will eat the fish. - It's good for fishes
to provide them with plenty of plants so they can swim around
the or hide. But the turtles will surely eat all the plants in
the tank.
The best way to keep fishes and turtles together is introducing
the fishes in an environment specially setup for the turtle. By
using this method you won't have any turtle care problems. So
make a correct turtle tank setup and then and the fish. The
turtles will eat the fish, but if you add at least 20 fishes
they will probably survive for an year.
There are some advantages for having some fishes in the turtle
tank:
- You'll never have to feed the fish. The usually eat left-over
food so it won't be expensive to keep them. - You can consider
the fish in your turtle tank as some kind of water quality
monitor. You can think that, if the fishes are healthy than the
water in the turtle tank is quite acceptable. - The fish in the
turtle tank can become a good emergency food for your turtles. -
Most captive water turtles don't swim enough and don't get
enough exercise. But with the fish in the tank they won't get
bored anymore.
So it's not such a bad idea to keep a fish together with a
turtle in a turtle water tank.
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