The common musk turtle also known as the eastern musk turtle or the stinkpot is a popular choice as a pet because of their size and relative ease of care.
Musk turtle tank size.
Musk turtle tank size.
Experts recommend that a 20 gallon 60cm 2 foot long tank is suitable for a single musk turtle whilst two turtles will require a 30 gallon home.
The carapace also has three distinct ridges which run the length of their shell.
Exo terra make a huge range of these mesh tank toppers giving you more choice on the size of the tank that you select larger screen covers are even hinged or include a small access door.
The musk turtle can grow to 100mm 4 4 long and needs a proportional amount of space to live happily.
Also although keeping one male and one female in a tank together may work well for some of the time spring mating activity may require you to separate the two because of excessive interest and harassment of the female by the male.
One adult stinkpot turtle can live in this enclosure so if you wanted to keep a pair of these turtles you would need a 40 gallon tank with a stronger underwater filter.
They are relatively small turtles and i don t expect them to grow more than 5 inches being as they are male i ve sexed the turtles based upon their plastron their relative tail size and the position of their cloaca.
Common musk turtles occasionally get cranky with each other so putting two males in the same tank is not recommended.
July 24 2012 10 00 53 pm i always say 90litres for one 125l for two they may be small but their waste is exceptionally toxic and a 45l doesn t have a the water required to adequately dissolve this or b a filter to anywhere near cope with the amount of waste they will produce.
If they feel threatened they can release a foul musky odor which is how they got their alternative name of stinkpot.
2 musk turtles in a 45 litre 50x30x30 tank reply 2 on.
Fill your turtle s tank with non chlorinated water.
The atp caresheet says its 29 gallons but that sounds kind of small.
Your turtle s tank should be at least 20 gallons and it should have a submersible canister water filter.
For this reason we suggest a tank with at least 600mm in width.
The perfect musk turtle tank is a modified glass aquarium.
An alternative musk turtle setup can be made by combining a standard glass aquarium with a mesh lid.
By maxwell2787 july 31 2017 in sand silt.
Glass aquarium with screen cover.
Maxwell2787 maxwell2787 members 14 posts.
Currently i have a 75 gallon tank that houses my 2 inch common musk turtles 2 inch pearl river map turtle 2 inch northern black knobbed sawback turtle.
The tank should also be tall enough to provide areas for the turtle to swim so we suggest a minimum height of around 300mm.
Posted july 31 2017.
