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However, baby sliders have slightly different dietary requirements compared to adults—they require a high-protein diet. This is to help support their body growth and development. However, it had occurred to me that the pond that we had thought about moving "Terry" into would be an ideal location to relocate the frog when it matures. I'll just finish with this - part of the joy to me of a garden pond is to watch nature as it unfolds. We add fish to our ponds for obvious reasons, but seeing a wild creature choose to live in my pond, do what it does naturally, move on when it's ready - all of that is way more satisfying, interesting, compelling... you name it - than creating what is essentially an outdoor aquarium where certain creatures have to be kept in and others have to be kept out. But if that's your dream pond, more power to you. Planting large amounts of vegetation to provide cover for both frogs and turtles to hide in is vital to increase their chances of survival when living together.

Predation is much more likely to occur whenever one species is smaller than the other or can fit the other into its mouth. Bullfrogs grow up to 6" long when mature, and Teresa is not a very large turtle (she's about 8" in shell length), but I do not underestimate RES turtles. She's a cherished pet that we had opportunities to give up on multiple occasions, but we never did. (This species is commonly dumped in waterways as an unwanted pet, where it either dies or becomes invasive.) Also, I suspect the turtle killed the pleco in an aquarium? I have no doubt that a red-eared slider would kill a bullfrog in a 75-gallon tank. The anxiety and boredom of being confined with another animal, not the turtle's carnivory, would ultimately lead to the frog's demise. However, I'm protective of our turtle and I don't want to consider her just a "part of nature" in the "eat or be eaten" cycle.I'm a genuine wildlife enthusiast and would love to build a pond just to invite the birds and native wildlife that wander through our yard, searching for food, water, and shelter. One time, we even had a vagrant painted turtle wander into our town

Frogs are generally bad swimmers, and turtles are bad runners, jumpers, and walkers. Use this to your advantage. Provide safe areas for each to escape to. She's a cherished pet that we had opportunities to give up on multiple times, we but never did. (This species is very commonly dumped in waterways.)It’s a little more complicated than just throwing some bullfrog tadpoles in with your red-eared sliders. So I don’t recommend it to anyone but the most experienced hobbyists. However, I imagine that it would be easier to keep Teresa from eating the frog in an outdoor enclosure than in an indoor aquarium.

As I've mentioned, it's meant to have a net covering it, so frogs would only be able to jump in if the net has gaps that are wide enough for the frogs to slip through. The net would also prevent the American bullfrog, if we add it, from jumping out and terrorizing our wild frogs.It's also illegal to release captive-bred reptiles and amphibians in New Hampshire, even native ones, and red-eared sliders are invasive in our state. Therefore, it's required by law that I confine the red-eared slider and the bullfrog. I recommend mature bullfrogs and mature red or yellow-eared sliders as a workable combination for frogs and turtles, kept in an outdoor pond where they’re indigenous. Green tree frogs should be kept inside, in enclosures. This alone prevents them from living with most turtles in your average pet keeper’s home. Can Red-Eared Sliders live with Frogs? However, if kept in the proper environment and correct combination of species, there is a small chance of survival for both frogs and turtles. The Proper Environment Bullfrogs are part of the natural cycle of life. They eat what they can; they're eaten when a predator has an opportunity. In 12 years of ponding we've watched the cycle - dozens of small frogs show up in spring, bullfrog shows up, small frogs disappear (eaten? moved on? both?), no more small frogs, bullfrog moves on, dozens of small frogs return to pond. It's a constant ebb and flow - the way nature intends. Everybody eats; everybody gets eaten. Bullfrog is getting a bum rap in your telling of the story.