Photo Gallery :: I'm going to need a bigger basking log...

[michaelg]

To make a longish story short, all 3 of our turtles are in the pond. Yesterday, they seemed to have a lot of trouble sharing the basking log. It's pretty long and plenty of room for them, but they only seem to want to use the first 8 to 12 inches or so. You can read more about how they all ended up together on their blog post: I think we're going to need a bigger boat.

Took this one right after we noticed all of them out basking together:


Martha (the Yellow Bellied Slider) is shedding scutes while Sweeney and Pascal try a delicate balancing act!


It looks like they finally figured it out.


Actually today they had quite a tough time sharing the log. I plan to extend the basking log to make it a little easier on them. Although I'm sure they'll figure a way to crowd each other even with a bigger log!

-Michael

[AllTheCandies]

hahaha awww they're silly.

[slider_keeper]

naturally you will see them all bunched up on a log in the wild as well.

[steve]

I think extending it would be a good idea. I don't see them up on logs and branches that are close to the edges/banks that often.

[devilduck]

From the picture it looks like you can just push the rest of the log down closer to the water.

[slider_keeper]

thats true Steve, logs in rivers, ponds and lakes usually extend out farther into the water.

[Listen97]

My parents had a large pond/lake behind their house and you would see all of the turtles basking together and stacked on top of each other. Mine stack now in my tanks basking area as well and their basking area is large enough for both of them side by side.