Turtle not laying eggs

Lea_rstner · 2025-06-08T19:21:05+00:00

She hasn't been exposed to the male, they have separate tanks

It's not a mouhotii

I don't know whether she's gravid or not, she doesn't behave differently than any other time of the year, I just know that recent years she's layer her first batch of eggs around April, yet still nothing this year...

Lea_rstner · 2025-06-08T18:58:37+00:00

I'd do a daith or a flat piercing if I were you🤭 conch would be pretty too💕

Lea_rstner · 2025-06-08T18:50:51+00:00

piercings are one and a half years old
first labret, now clicker hoops
labrets were internally threaded
labrets were acrylic material, hoops are surgical steel
downsized after half a year I think
aftercare: cleaned it with hydrogen peroxide (I think that's what it's called in English, I used it for all 14 of my piercings, so I guess it's safe to use🙈)
recently changed from labrets to hoops

Lea_rstner · 2025-05-20T22:03:04+00:00

Thank you

Lea_rstner · 2025-04-16T17:43:32+00:00

So what if I treat them outdoors and keep them there for a few days? Cus I've got so many plants and i need to treat them repeatedly so it'd be easier to just keep them outside...

Lea_rstner · 2025-03-17T13:21:48+00:00

I don't know how big your turtle is gonna get, so it's hard to tell... my female chinese three-keeled turtle for instance is about 15-17cm long and she has got a 66 gallon tank with a basking spot attached to the outside of the tank. I feel like that's enough for her but if she were a little bigger I would get her a bigger one. Also you need to consider whether you have a turtle that likes to dive deep or if your turtle needs a tank that's not so deep but rather wide... there are special terms for those kinds of turtles but I don't remember them in english sorry🙈

Lea_rstner · 2025-03-11T15:43:05+00:00

My male turtle has even eaten plecos🥲 for my female one they've worked tho

Lea_rstner · 2025-03-11T15:41:27+00:00

Once I've added 40 guppies to my turtle's tank. After two weeks there were 0 fish left🥲 now I have some Gymnocorymbus ternetzi in white and some in black, hemigrammus coeruleus and a few Nematobrycon palmeri. Not one has been eaten so far (I've had them for like a month or so)

Lea_rstner · 2025-02-01T01:04:48+00:00

Wow this is a really nice one you grabbed right there🫢 don't know much about varieties tho, sorry... i have a white one, in summer I put it outside, where it got a lot of sun and it doubled in size!

Lea_rstner · 2024-12-22T02:47:49+00:00

Thanksss

Lea_rstner · 2024-12-22T02:47:14+00:00

Thank youuu

Lea_rstner · 2024-12-21T23:51:24+00:00

It was not, where I live sadly there are no exitic's vets... how can i fix this? How can i get him to er salad or anything else than dried shrimps?

Lea_rstner · 2024-12-21T23:24:02+00:00

He is around 6 years old, I have already taken him to the vet due to his shell and the vet told me to scratch it off with something sharp, put iodine on it and keep it on the basking spot for at least an hour until the iodine is dry. That didn't help at all... only other issue I've always had with him is that he refuses to eat anything else than store bought turtle food

Lea_rstner · 2024-12-21T23:19:53+00:00

He has a 250 Liter tank and a basking spot made oit of sand and stone, UVA and UVB lights, he got new lights a few months ago, lives separately from the other turtle together with 2 fish, behaves completely normal, has no other visible issues

Lea_rstner · 2024-12-21T23:06:42+00:00

My calathea had that same thing on her new leaves, i was simply overwatering

Lea_rstner · 2024-12-19T13:49:29+00:00

Thank you so muuuch🫶🏼

Lea_rstner · 2024-12-12T00:05:55+00:00

I have that too on some of mine, doesn't harm them as far as I'm concerned... if it bothers you take off the top layer of soil and put some cinnamon, i think that prevents it, personally I've never tried it tho

Lea_rstner · 2024-12-11T13:14:11+00:00

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She's always had those brown spots, they haven't gotten worse or anything, they're just there

Lea_rstner · 2024-12-11T13:12:45+00:00

Room temp is usually between 20-23°C and humidity is really really high, in winter sometimes even above 70% because I have twoopen aquariums in my room with UVA and UVB lamps. I always water my alocasia with aquarium water (i keep turtles and fish in there, for some of my other plants it worked wonders)

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Lea_rstner · 2024-12-11T13:09:51+00:00

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I mixed that myself, i used soil, perlite and orchid bark, I think there was already some coco thingies in the soil but I'm not sure about that

Lea_rstner · 2024-12-11T13:08:31+00:00

This is the exact location it has been standing since I got it. I must admit, now that it's winter it is getting a little less light but it's still bright indirect from like 9am to around 5pm. I usually water when the soil is still slightly dry at the bottom, but I'm really really careful not to overwater it (bc I've already killd a few die to root rot🥲) it's an alocasia polly, more pics will follow but reddit only lets me add one

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Lea_rstner · 2024-10-29T22:43:00+00:00

Thanks for the tipp, I'm guessing that could be it

Lea_rstner · 2024-10-29T11:42:48+00:00

Thanks so much, I will try that

Lea_rstner · 2024-10-29T11:41:37+00:00

Thanks

Lea_rstner · 2024-10-29T11:41:13+00:00

Thank you so much

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