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#167442
Kling
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Are they fighting 
my male slider is comeing up to my female and like smacking her in the face with his long toe nails and i was wondring why he is doing that ?
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10/21/04 6:41pm
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#167580
Jj342
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Message To: Kling In reference to Message Id: 167442
 Are they fighting
they are mating land turtles bite necks when they are mating but water turtles flicker their nails when they mate.
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10/21/04 9:09pm
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#167668
Kling
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Message To: Jj342 In reference to Message Id: 167580
Are they fighting
so my trutles are mateing?
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10/21/04 10:27pm
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#167679
Cobra 82
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Message To: Kling In reference to Message Id: 167668
Are they fighting
He is courting the other turtle!How big are they?Males are known to fliker other males also! 
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10/21/04 10:35pm
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#167709
Cinderella
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Message To: Cobra In reference to Message Id: 167679
Are they fighting
Yes that would be the turtle "kissing". It can also happen to show territory. Like I had one turtle in a tank by itself and it’s friend out in a pond and when the weather was bad I would bring the one from the pond in and put it in the tank with the other and it would do the turtle kissing to say hey this is my tank what are you doing here. then everything would be fine, it wasn’t mating cuz they were like 4 weeks old. now they live together and with 2 other turtles.
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10/21/04 11:00pm
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#167753
Kling
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Message To: Cinderella In reference to Message Id: 167709
Are they fighting
one is a male and the outher is a female could they be wanting to make??? whan he dos that she trys to bit him too
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10/22/04 12:07am
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#167814
Elfomatic
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Message To: Kling In reference to Message Id: 167753
Are they fighting
Looks like they might be getting ready to mate. That means that you will have to set up a nesting box sometime in the future ... even if you don’t want to keep the eggs (which, for a RES, I recommend you don’t) you need to give the female someplace to lay them safely. Good luck!
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10/22/04 2:42am
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#167867
Kling
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Message To: Elfomatic In reference to Message Id: 167814
Are they fighting
what is wrong with keeping them?? can’t i sell them or give them out?? how many eggs am i looking at?thank you for all this help
Neil
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10/22/04 9:25am
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#168243
Elfomatic
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Message To: Kling In reference to Message Id: 167867
Are they fighting
RES are already overpopulated in the pet industry. You should easily be able to sell them to a pet store but then you have to wonder as to how moral that would be seeing as most of them would go to bad homes where they would be kept improperly ... those that survived the first year in these homes (estimated to be less than 10%) would likely end up in rescue organizations who already have an overflow of these guys every year and have to give them away because no one wants them ... So, it is up to you. That’s why I would elect not to incubate them ... they are almost guaranteed a bad life. :(You should be looking at around 30 eggs at a time.
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10/22/04 9:03pm
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#168329
Cinderella
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Message To: Elfomatic In reference to Message Id: 168243
Are they fighting
Yes, I almost beg you not to incubate the eggs. I saw the tank my four babies came out of and just thinking about it sickens me. There had to be at least 100 of them in a 10 gallon tank at the store in Myrtle Beach. Please don’t let anymore suffer!
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10/22/04 11:08pm
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#168378
Kling
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Message To: Cinderella In reference to Message Id: 168329
Are they fighting
there is a pet store where i would be able to sell to where he know how to care for hie animals he has some kind of BIGGGGGGGgg snake it is like 30ft or so i would trust him he has his iguanas caged well. i like that one pet store.
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10/23/04 12:45am
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