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Hi guys have just been given 2 5 yr old Mississippi map turtles they seem reluctant to climb on platform and bask under the lights as my y/belly sliders do, any comments would be greatly appreciated thanks in advance Mike
 
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Mike either @Marshall or @Mmathis akaTurtle mommy would be the best people to have a chat with about this they are our turtle experts, I see your from Norwich Norfolk.
It's a small world I get all my nets from a company by the name of Norfine Nets who are based there

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Mike either @Marshall or @Mmathis akaTurtle mommy would be the best people to have a chat with about this they are our turtle experts, I see your from Norwich Norfolk.
It's a small world I get all my nets from a company by the name of Norfine Nets who are based there

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Thanks for that Dave, looking around on here there dont seem to be many members from our part of the world?
 
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Mike we Brits are taking this site by storm of late my friend both the Administrators come from Manchester Becky and Ian theirs @slick myself @Dave 54 @Andy41 who lives in Austria but has family here in Plymouth and many others then we have our American and Canadian Cousins from across the pond I even think we even have an Australian or two .
I'm your man for fish health issues @Meyer Jordan is very intelligent on most matters about fish enviroments, water quality issues and natural type pond enviroments.
Koiguy1969 is a succesful breeder of koi carp and is a mine of information
@crsublette is also a mine of information who of late has been looking into Aquaphonics .
He comes from Florida, so between us all we have a mine of informaton going on with GPF from Turtles to goldfish and koi as well as indoor tropical tank keepers @bettasngoldfish is a betta keeper as well as a great goldfish keeper as is @Mmathis.
Check out the articles section its very comprehensive and covers most subjects

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Hi guys have just been given 2 5 yr old Mississippi map turtles they seem reluctant to climb on platform and bask under the lights as my y/belly sliders do, any comments would be greatly appreciated thanks in advance Mike
My map turtles seem to have a dislike of basking docks because they are static but if you can get a floating "log" basking platform that should work alot better. I have 7 map turtles and they all refuse the platforms and only use the fake logs.
Here is a link for the ones I use:
http://www.drsfostersmith.com/produ...RpLFOqQROEMh6fkdVDDahw0e_BuPEXPyE8aAsmb8P8HAQ
 
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Turts tend to haul out to warm up, if they want to stay in the water I'd guess the water is some cosey temp...
 

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