needing some help on painted turtles

[Tracy Ann]

okay so right now i have a painted turtle named george

and anyways he has a girlfriend georgina and we want to breed them but dont know how and everything on the internet is a little different. any ideas ?

have anybody breeded them before and can help ?

or just know alot ?

Thanks :)

[Lizze]

you pantied ur turtle yelllow bblack!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Katrina]

The first question is, why do you want to breed them? Do you have an area where the female can lay eggs? How large of an enclosure do you have? What do you plan to do with any babies that hatch?
Are you sure you have a male and female? Males have long front nails and a longer, thicker tail than females. Also, males have been known to harrass females to the point that females develop abcesses, scars, and stop eating or basking properly. Unless you have a fenced-in pond for them, it might be best to keep them seperate.

The first thing you need is an area where the female can dig and lay eggs. Dirt works fine, or a mixture of top soil and sand. If this is an indoor enclosure, it should be about half her length deep or deeper - she shouldn't be able to touch the bottom of the container with her hind feet if they're stretched out. Some females can lay infertile eggs even if no males are present - and some might become "egg bound" if there's no place to lay eggs.