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Wow thanks for all the help! Here's what our smaller turtle looks like; and here's the tank - sorry its not a clear pic - i don't have a camera, only phone camera the uvb light above the tank is sitting on glass - so sounds like i need to remove the glass? and maybe get some extra lights? There are big stones, fake plants (occassionally real ones too), gravel (too big to eat at the moment), part of a cuttlefish, drift wood and a fake log also in the tank. the terrapins bask a lot on the turtle dock but don't like doing so when people are in the room very much. i guess this is normal?

Thanks! I will compare it to mine when I get home. Yep, I have a water heater plus the guard.

Hi, I have two juvenile red eareds that have developed what looks like white marks on their shells. The shells are not soft and I give them 'vitamin turtles' every week. I think I have the proper setup with UVB lamp, water filter, floating platform and the terrapins are taken out of the tank for an hour every other day. I've witnessed one of them scratching its shell vigorously on a large bit of drift wood in the tank - would this be enough to cause the whitening of the shells? Or is it something I should be worried about? thanks Emma