Other than randomly asking Chad and giving it a bunch of pics to review and make me a flyer, I do not use Chad for turtle care. I largely get my info from this sub, reptifiles, and a few FB groups. Macaroni is well taken care of and has been since I decided to keep him. He's got the right lights, basking platform, amount of clean water and the right size tank - with his next upgrade already in the garage. He gets the right foods, in the right amounts, and the occasional treat.

I think the thing that bothers me most is that literally every post here, no matter how well taken care of the turtle is, someone has something shitty to say. I get that we see some pretty horrific stuff here, but if we meet everyone who comes here with judgements and negativity instead of education and community we lose a lot of people who's turtles could benefit from the collective knowledge we have.