Turtle- istic Problem here!?!Best Answer: 10 pts!?

Well, you see, my grampa was watering flowers in our backyard. And he found a turtle and brought it in. We decided to keep it as a pet.Only too bad cuz we don't know anything about him/her. We don't know what kind of turtle he/she is either. Its orange and black and his shell has stripes and circles...It also has bumps like our spinal cords...Just tell me what type of turtle it is.. The rest is optional!

Turtle- istic Problem here!?!Best Answer: 10 pts!?
You shouldn't of kept it. The turtle was used to eating wild natural food and now your going to feed him turtle processed pet food from a store. He may not adjust to the change properly, and he/she could die from the shock.





Try and feed him natural foods, like he would eat in the wild. I'm trying to do a search and find out what kind of turtle it is..and see what kind of food he/she eats.





It could be a :


Southern Painted Turtle


or a...


Box Turtle (I read that they may live for 100 years)


Check out the links below that I found for you...
Reply:The description is not very helpful by itself- a better description of the shell or even the state you are in would help.





Some possibilities include:





Painted turtles: Painteds come in a variety of colors- the Southern Painted is pretty dark, but it might be any of them. The shell is fairly smooth, however, so I am not assigning this a high probability.





Box turtle: Boxies do indeed tend to match this description... but the 'spinal cord-like bumps' does not quite work here.





MY GUESS (drum roll) is one of the Map turtles or False map turtles- they are known by their dark colors and knobby shells. The links below are to pictures of various map turtles.
Reply:http://www.amphibiancare.com/frogs/cares...


http://www.kidskonnect.com/Turtles/Turtl...


these will help
Reply:An eastern box turtle.
Reply:The only way to be sure what kind of turtle you have is to take it to a pet store.
Reply:eastern box turtle. i looked it up.





do i get the 10 points? for care go to http://www.marietta.edu/~mcshaffd/boxt/c...





well whos the winner? heres a faq and talks about finding a eastern box turtle http://www.marietta.edu/~mcshaffd/boxt/f... who gets the ten points!
Reply:sounds like it might be a box turtle. does it have webs on its feet? if it has webs on its feet it could be a water turtle. if it is a box turtle then it eats fruit and veggies. good luck, hope this helped
Reply:It's probably box turtle. It's either an ornate box turtle or Florida box turtle. I won't go into details of explaining how to care for it. Check out this caresheet with pics:





http://www.austinsturtlepage.com/Care/cs...





There are other turtel caresheets and picture to browse if it is not a boxie.





You can also try http://www.turtleforum.com


This is the biggest onlie turtle discussion forum.