Species Spotlight- Common Musk Turtles

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[@colleenanne4032]

This is great! We have a 10 year old captive bred Stinkpot and we adore him. We had a health scare. His shell has retained shed flakes that have built up over the past year. We apparently had his water too warm ~79*F and since he never used the basking area we only had a UVA/UVB bulb over the water. He started coming out onto his ramp more and more and we think this was to get out of the water that was too warm. We have the water at 76*-77*F now and have a basking bulb and UVA/UVB light. We were also told in a musk turtle group that all water conditioners are toxic to turtles and we will need to use RO or filtered water. We used a new extra soft toothbrush to gently work the retained flakes loose and did a 50% water change with a faucet attachment on the sink for filtered water but it took 4 hours for the water in the tank to come up to temperature because the sink water has to be cold through the filter. What are your thoughts in the Tetrafauna Aquasafe turtle water conditioner or others like it? Thank you

[@JzsReptiles]

Personally I’ve never liked most water conditioners even when I was more of an aquarist. I always used an RO system or more often used buckets that sat for 24+ hours which also helps with water temp adjustments

[@chaosphase209]

what fish are with the turtle in the first clip? me and my girlfriend love aquatic animals and can’t quite pinpoint what we think they are🤣

[@sayurikitamura7109]

I love this video, thank you 🎉 they are so cute and obviously you can keep them communally. Are there no problems with the fish?

[@JzsReptiles]

Any turtle will try to take snaps at fish and will eat smaller ones. They don’t eat fish as much as other species but larger fish with plenty of space would likely have less issues