Safe Aquatic Plants for Turtle Tanks (yes...live plants) 

My Red eared slider demolished anubias in the first day I had it in the tank. My turtle doesn’t seem to bother my Java Ferns though. He also loves to eat water lettuce, I’ve been to scared to try duckweed because I’m afraid it will take over my tank lol

Dude, your videos have been getting better(older ones are still good) and the information just keeps flowing. Keep it going 👍

good to see you, again. as always, great information. thank you for sharing!

I love your vids and i was waiting so long!!

I've been using anacharis in my mud turtle/guppy community tank for about 6 months. It's been really durable to the turtle uprooting and shoving it around, I just tuck the roots under a rock, into the sand, or just let it float. It absolutely sucks up the nitrates. Plus the turtle really seems to like climbing through and hiding in the bunches when it gets a little overgrown lol

Thank you for responding that just made me so so happy

Plants and my turtle do not mix, since if I put one little plant, munched away it goes! Lol. But I do have a fish tank so I’ll be sure to try some new plants for in there! Thanks for all your help!

Thank you Turtle Girl!! Waited a long time for a video like this!! My daughter and I have watched almost all your videos. Thanks for your content! We have a dbt and we’re given two yellow bellied sliders (rescued really) and now they are part of the fam! We want to put those two together…any advice? And also what about guppy grass?

I recently got a yellow belly slider and I’m a new turtle owner I asked somebody at the pet store how many pellets should I feed him. I was told four pellets a day. My turtle was only getting 4-6 pellets a day for the first four days of his stay here. I feel so bad but then I did my research and I’m so glad I found your video.

Needed this! Thank you 🐢

Just ordered my first floating plants today. Duckweed for my common snapping turtle.

Love your channel very helpful… question for you tho what’s your thoughts on putting a 2-3 Mississippi maps in a vertical 130 gallon tank 👀👀

Glad you did this one. I've been experimenting with trying to create a planted tank. I've done anubias & Amazon sword so far. They just attack them but don't eat them. I've got a 90 gallon & I really want to put a big plant to grow up & out of the tank. Any suggestions?

I definitely will take your advice. I will let you know how it goes. 😎 thanks for the advice.

There is nothing wrong with putting a little piece of polycarbonate separator with silicone so the plants be in the same tank producing oxygen but the little baby can't wreak havoc 🙃🖤🐢

I just tried live plants for the first time last week. I added some duckweedto my tank and my red eared slider already ate like 80% of it, lol

I'm about to try sweet potatoes with a stinkpot!

Ya know I've started Watchung ur vids recently was curious as to your opinion on turtle tubs. I have one for my musk turtle it's 40 gallons of water an 10 gallons of substrate an he's an Eastern musk turtle so they walk on the bottom more then swim been thinking about using one for my snapping turtle as well. Thoughts ?

quick question, does duckweed clog up a hanging filter? is that something to be worried about because i’m setting up a new tank soon

hornwort grows so fast in my guppy tank so i keep puttingin a handful in with the turtles. it lasts a whole week or so

Is frog bit safe for stinkpot turtles? Also, are water hyacinths suitable for a stinkpot aquarium?Thank you!

where did you get Hoku from and do they sell them as hatchlings? I've been wanting a small hatchling diamondback terrapin for a while.

Should I use the Saki - Hikari Turtle in place of the Hikari Wheat - Germ?

What kind of camera do you have? The quality is amazing

Any recommendations for plants that may filter the water??

I have a question for you. I have a plant called rotala rotundifolia I would that be safe for my river cooter and painter?

Hi ate selen nice video

We got watercress for ours :D it's doing well, they like to hide under it

Hi I have a question I have a painted turtle too but I don’t have a uvb light but I do have my turtles tank by the window where sun shines in will the sunlight be enough uvb?

Hi I have a cooter turtle how many times a week do you recommend to feed her she always wants to eat and the tank get really dirty very quickly

I have a pond I have indoors. Only problem is my old turtle light isn’t that big and I have 4 different basking spots because I have 4 turtles. I’m trying to get their basking spots heated up but it would be expensive to go out and get 3 more lights plus it would cause my electricity bill to skyrocket. I do have this bright Grow light that produces heat and my only issue with it is if you stare at it too long it can make you blind. This is the same for turtle lamps but could I use the grow light for my pond? It would also help my plants grow around the pond

I love your videos

Yes.

I tend to give floating plants to friends with turtles and fish that will eat my extras. Do you know if red root floaters are safe for turtles?

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Can we keep lucky bamboos or money plant?

Just curious l, there are some conflicting views but what about dwarf water lilies?

Hi I have a question I did research about it but idk what it could be because my red eared slide makes a lot of noise at night and just a bit in the evening is it normal or no?

Great video! (: Can you do more videos with your leapord gecko? I recently got mine! It’s a female any name ideas?! 💞🫶🏻

I have a red ear slider and something black came out of it. Do you know what it is?

4th I love your videos you are so inspiring

hi I was wondering is there a type turtle that can live in a 20 gallon tank?

Have a full integrated planted tank I sent pictures to your Instagram the other day, I hope you saw them when I first started out a few years ago I learned a lot from your videos and multiple hours of research and resources.

I've gotten turtles a month and a few days before but never thought about live plants.

I’m getting a musk turtle in a few days, any tips? Edit: I got the turtle, but it’s not a musk, it’s a red eared slider. I sometimes see bubbles around his mouth when he comes up for air, and I’m really scared. Some people said it’s normal but some other people said it could be because of an infection.

Can moss be planted in a turtle tank too? I wanna try Christmas moss in my turtle tank

I have a box turtle 🐢 he disappeared in garden today he digs down in dirt it’s hot in Az I thought I would give him some fresh air and freedom and he took off while I was watering and cleaning up what should I feed my box turtle she doesn’t eat much I bought pellets and fresh veggies even fruit she doesn’t eat much

Turtle girl or anyone pls answer: does water heater, filter, or heat lamp take a lot of electricity

Duckweed was great for the florida peninsula river cooter because of the slow water movement but as far as for sliders the baby yes but our adult has too much waste into the tank to do less filtering/slower water movement. The duckweed just died and went to the bottom for the shrimp and the filter lol.

Red root floaters ok?

this is unrelated to this video, but does anyone have any good, reliable water heater recommendations? i’m kind of a helicopter parent for my turtle, so preferably a plastic one (since i don’t have any experience with glass heaters) or just one that is proven to be 100% safe!! i used the same brand for 5-ish years and it suddenly got my turtle sick so now i’m really on edge if it makes a difference he’s a 7 year old painted turtle and is pretty large and active, so any suggestions would help! i also have minnows in my tank

For some reason my turtle will not eat any veggies, but destroys plants in the tank 🤨 I have tried a few but no luck keeping them. I want to try again but it makes such a mess and they aren’t cheap to last only a few minutes. I do worry about the filter too, so may check out the prefilter info. The guys at the pet store always tell me never get duckweed. These videos are very helpful!

Just switched up my Eastern Painted to black sand and live plants after getting tired of the constant high algae build up in her tank. It always ruined the white sand and made it difficult to clean the fake plants. Hopefully my plan works.

What about red root floaters?

Is radicon sword plant ok for a western painted turtles? Someone please respond quick.

Are pothos ok for turtles

Dear, TTG, Do you still have that spreadsheet for turtle plants?

Well I am very frustrated. Bought a java fern for my musk turtle. Waited 2 weeks for it to arrive and within 2 hours my musk turtle ate it down to roots. So much for literally every website out there telling me that turtles won't eat it. Your video was the only thing that gave me any indication this could happen so thank you. Might try hornwort next. Seems like the java fern root I threw in a cup of water is going to take months to regrow.

My baby Razorback musk turtle doesn't bother the Water Sprite for the first month. But one day i noticed that most of the plant is cut in half, so i think the turtle just torn it apart with it's claw. Low and behold, the next day i saw it eating the plants 😅.

Can you use pothos 🤷

How do I even get the plants in there to sit still ?!

My red eared slider loves swimming over java fern. Unfortunately she destroys the plant doing this. So just have to keep replacing the plants because she loves swimming through the leaves. Last week she pulled the whole plant out of the planter and took it into its cave 😂

My turtle (jean’uc) is super calm and chill and laid back so i was like maybe this could work maybe when i get some money to spend i can buy a bunch of real plants to replace his fake ones. But then I remembered how VICIOUS he gets around food or edible things and i decided against it for me. But hes just a baby so idk

Hi turtle girl, is it bad to not keep a water heater inside a turtle's tank, cuz my parents think that just the UVB lamp would do the job...

Anubias are safe but elephant ear not although both are from the same family and contain the same substances?

Hi my slider turtle Will not eat or bask for about 1 month now (maybe 3 weeks) All it does about 15hrs a day is stare at itself in (I'm assuming) its own reflection in the glass doing mating dance and swimming frantically back and forth (wothout pause, for hours) the length of rhe tank (40gal). When I take him out to feed in a separate container, it eats maybe 1/4 of the food (a thimble size of its head), then goes back on extteme high alert to get back in the big tank I dont knkw what to do... he's become so neurotic, its starting to make me anxious just watching him.. Any suggestions of what I can do?

What brand of sand do you suggest for a baby eastern painted turlte's aquarium?

one of my small turtles got stuck on the amazon sword and it drowned, it was sad an unexpected.

Yoooo! Why aren’t you at Animalcon! You need to come next year!

Is there aquatic “Maui Wowee”? If there is, might be a treat for them…for us too👍🏼👍🏼🤪Sorry…I tried not to🙏

Allergies suck! Most of my plants are still thriving! I’ve gotten incredibly lucky with my little guy.

Question for anyone that might know… I have a 5(ish) year old red eared slider who is very lazy. He spends all his time floating on the surface of the water and never wants to bask. I’ve taken him to the vet and they said he’s perfectly healthy. Has anyone else had a turtle like this? I’ve never had a turtle before him and all the videos I’ve seen of other people’s sliders seem to be a lot more energetic. Is something wrong with him?

I gota baby painted turtle pribalbly last year hatch picked him off the side of the road he got rolled atleast once cracked ahell hes doin okay but were finally getting his tank set up ive got some nice gravel rocks and a dry sport because well i just want him to be okay hes fucking adorable and loves being held out side in the sun

Love you

I have two African side necked turtles - the adult female destroys anubias and Java ferns in minutes, the juvenile male doesn’t touch them. I’m trying water sprite & dwarf sagittaria with the adult. So far they’ve lasted longer than others, but the water sprite is down to one sprig. 😂🤦🏼‍♀️

i tried a money tree thinking that my RES wouldn't eat it because only the bark would be accessible. instead he just kept knocking it over! so... yeah.

a question to all of youtube. my turtles still will not eat pellets. but i manage to get to eat vegetables like lettuce and carrots, and i also add algae chips that they enjoy. am i missing something that their diet might still need? i have a red eared slider and what might be an eastern river cooter (was literally left on my doorstep anonymously) . they seem healthy but facts are that symptoms show up a little late. i worry they arent getting the best i can provide! thank you to any response

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How about Java moss?

we need more leopard gecko videos or at least i do i am going to get one and i love your old ones can you please tell me how i can play with them

Evo da likuje i neko van teksasa.

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I have a Red-eared slider Turtle. About 8-10+years old. Should I let her hibernate/brumate in the winter? There seems to be a bunch of mix opinions on this online. My turtle been hibernating/brumating for years.

Hi, I found a turtle, I now it's a pond turtle but don't now the exact breed. If I could send you an email with pictures of it, could you tell which breed it is? If yes, it would be awesome, please help me! 😊

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If they are well Fed they Will still eat them?

NEED URGENT HELP Forest department people take my red ear slider away from me. She is 6.5 years old. They said it's illigal to have turtles. They said maybe you are doing some black magic. Turtle girl I need your help as soon as possible. I dont know what my turtle is doing now. I don't know she was in what condition. I just need your help .🙏😭 Please help me. Location : Bhor, maharshtra, India

Frogbits last about a minute with my turtle. 😂

I have a razorback musk turtle and he still uproots plants....doesn't eat them, just uproots them.

please more leopard gecko videos 🥺🥺🥺

I have a baby mississippi map turtle

Baby yellow bellied turtle is it just as destructive haha?

what is Safe Aquatic Plants for pond

Can I mail you a baby turtle? Pls help

QUESTIONNN (that I don’t know if you’ve already answered >.

I wanna show u my set up I learned a lot from you and want to show you how far I’ve came lol where can I show u pic

Hey ive been a subscriber from before and i finally got 2 little red eared sliders can you please do a giveaway or an old small tank that you are not using plsss i made a diy tank but no filter and heater so i do the cleaning almost everyday coz it gets rlly dirty😪

Hi turtle girl

Why two weeks no vid?

I can’t.My guy digs up and moves around everything ☹️