Spottie
 

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Spotted turtle on the way out.

A great picture, can we have one when its out please?

Do many people keep this species and are they difficult to breed? Don't see so much about terrapins these days apart from the odd one being found in a pond and mistaken for a tortoise at one time the red ears were found everywhere.

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I know a few people keeping these. Mine live in an outdoor pond year round, they're very cold tolerant and do well like this down south. They dont get bigger than 4-5 inches as adults so a good species to keep.

I don't have a great deal of breeding success with them, others do. Every year I get a clutch of 3 and 4 eggs from my two females. Every year only one egg is fertile and hatches so I have a good line of 1,2,3,4 ,5 year old turtles.

As they live in the pond year round they’re fairly naturalised, I could probably improve fertility by pairing them up with my males in the spring, away from the pond but I prefer letting them live the way they are.

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This is the adults pond. Its a 6ft x 3ft raised bed with a liner. The mesh is more to keep cats out than turtles in. In the winter I cover the whole thing with a sheet of polycarb, which also helps to extend the active season both sides of winter as it turns the whole thing into a cold frame.

Caught them on the blink camera this morning, this is the land section built into that 6x3.

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Congratulations on the new baby. :-)
Yes, they look very content from that blink camera. To be honest I thought they'd need a bigger pond so I can see why they're easy to keep especially staying so small.
Thanks for sharing - really interesting and lovely to see.

I love to see terrapins outside and hope that Spottie has been out enjoying the fantastic weather.