flaky skin
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I have three dbt that are about 2.5″. They were added to my fish tank (40 gallon breeder) that is FULL of vallisneria and has some tetras and various scavengers (loaches,pleco,etc.) I haven’t added any salt to my system yet. I plan to wait until I can find a home for the tetras or until they become food. Anyway my problem is my terrapins seem to have flaky skin. I have never kept turtles before so this may be a stupid question. Are they just shedding or is that a sign of poor water quality? I am sure that my nitrates are somewhat high b/c I don’t have time to trim the plants regularly. Why do you think my terrapins have flaky skin? Just out of curiosity, is anyone keeping scats or archers with their turtles? I plan to get some of those when I make my setup brackish, but not until my turtles get older. Then I can have my mangroves with all my brackish animals to make my “ecosystem”. thanks mike
— In diamondbackterrapins@y…, habitat101@y… wrote: Mike, the flaky skin you mention is just old skin that’s shedding off. Juveniles do shed regularly depending on their growth rates. No, I have toyed with the idea in previous posts but have not had the chance to introduce them yet. -Chun
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