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  • i just saw my turtles do this in the tank and i was like WTF?!

  • Wtf

  • Looks like you got the ladies man

  • red ear sliders  are cool

  • how old do they need to be to mate? because i noticed one of my sliders was doing tht to the other but the other was just there like,what are you doing? ones bigger and the bigger one has faint orange marks on the side of his head

  • my red ear slider always does that courtship mating dance to my my yellow belly slider XD

  • My baby turtles do that now. They're three months old.

  • 0:45 => turtle kiss!

  • They look exactly like my turtles xD

  • did i just watch turtle porn

  • Nice setup! How do you keep it clean, and how do you keep the turtles from messing up the plants?

  • My red eared sliders that are only about 1 year old were doing that. I notices that male kept swimming to the female no matter what. Then he stuck his claws in front if her face and wiggled them.

  • do the turtles lay the eggs in the water? because i have 2 res and they do that all the time but they never laid any eggs....and one of my turtles has res sores on its back legs...its it gonna be infected?

  • The mating rituals? Really? -_-' But the male was just like Boo! *closes her eyes, and then Boo!

  • I agree, I have both male and female turtles. also (10 years old) the female turtle i had laid her eggs a couple of times, (10 times aproximly) and the eggs were eaten. =_= felt bad for the babies turtles. How do those turtle laid their egg. and what should i do, for in case if it happen again. I wanna see a turtle family in my tank.

  • Hey guys should i get a painted turtle or a Red Ear Slider? Leave a message Thanks !

  • @hiddendragon100 Red eared slider. there the schepest ones and the cutest 150$ setup for them.

  • hey great vid, i have a male painted that tries to mate with my female slider, but she never gives him the time of day lol. checkout my vid, u might like it - Aquatic Turtle Carnage

  • please if can any ones hellp me to tell on me whether male and female red eared slideres doing mating dance or only mails doing thet ?

  • HELP MY TURTLES ARE DOING THIS WHAT DO I DO/?!?!

  • my turtles are about 2 1/4 inches size shell. they're already doing this kind of thing. i did some research on it and apparently they're just claiming territory. any info that can help?

  • i have 2 red ear sliders and i think they are both females.

    should i be concerned that they do that thing with their paws to each other?

    they do it quite often and when they see me, they stop.

  • i like your tank ^^

  • that thing u saw was his uuumm pp XD

  • how old do a turtle need to be 2 mate?

  • my res does that for a while and the other doesnt want to mate..ive been thinking of taking the turtle mating out of the tank and into another....and the other day i saw something comeing out my turtles back side...it was a black fat thing i think out of the tail... and it was connected and then all of a sudden it went small and back into the turtle....i asked my dad he said shes prob having a baby but thats the second time shes done that..please help thnx

  • @armeniandude99 that turtle you're talking about is a male. male also are smaller and have longer nails. That black thing you saw is its genital (penis)

  • Hey, i've got a question for you.

    I've got a male turtle around the age of 6. He's alone in his tank and he sometimes seperates a black stone from the other colored ones. He then backs up and wiggles his nails just like the video on top of it. Should i be concerned or is he just practicing? xD

  • @Saanq turtle fell in love with a rock

  • My red-eared silder did this everytime, but they are only 3 months old ...

  • Unless you take the eggs out of water a couple hours after they are laid, the eggs will drowned. Thats probably why they have not hatched. Look up care instructions online and make sure if you have them and try to hatch them, that you keep the side that was facing up when laid stays facing up after you move them.

  • [turtle 1] "your getting sleepy ....sleeepy

    [turtle 2] "your also getting sleepy ....sleeepy

  • My 2 inch turtles ate doinging that

  • I got 4 baby red eared sliders if u wanna see type in XxwindsptitexX and a red eard slider will show

  • I have 2 turtles one male one female and theyve been doing this "dance" for about 2 days now, they are about the size of a human fist, are they going to most likely lay eggs?

  • Hey do you need to have them on water when theyre babies because i have a tank with water and a place for them to go to land,is that good?

  • @Aerosmithfandude yup watch some of my other vids about these turtles habibtat now

  • @Aerosmithfandude yes that's very good.. they lay their eggs on land.. =)

  • Cute. Check out our turtle rescue channel for some great turtle videos =)

  • o that tickles

  • i have two 1-year old turtles and they do this all the time! i had no idea.

  • can you eat turtle eggs like caviar?

  • Males shake their claws for a sign of there perfection for the female

  • actually they are getting aggressive when its slapping its acctually saying get out be careful accordind to experts they may start a fight

  • How big is that tank! lol

  • Hello Barlow,

    I have two female RES. I have put them in a smaller bin so I can clean and refill the larger tank/bin (40 gal) I keep them in. I just saw the larger of the females circling and flicking her claws in the smaller one's face. They touched noses and that was pretty much it. Does this mean anything significant? I rescued them both from a bucket about 5 years ago when they were the size of quarters. The are much larger now. Thanks Heaps for your time.

  • @kalex32 aw lesbian turtles, cute!!

  • You pervert! Lol, j/k. Anyways, they look so human, the way their doing it. I got two, I think female, RED sliders. Very cute. One's an adult, the other's a teen.

  • ok im reasearching ho breed turtles cz i hav a feale red eared sider. and im reading about this matig dance and his is wat it says:

    "The mating dance of this species is very elaborated and interesting to observe. The male swims towards the female and starts caressing her face with his long front claws. He might also swim around her in circles. He might also strike her front shell lightly with his claws. If she is receptive, she will accept him." so was the female turtle being "receptive?"

  • mine r 3 years old and doing this is it bad for their age

  • make sure the eggs are warm and moist if not you should grab them ang bury them in a bucket of sand carefully . for more info search here on youtube and google

  • @ KingBarlow ... how large ar ur res's when they layed eggs ???

  • so.. question.. my turtles which are only several months old just did this... neither has shown distinctive sign of being either a male or female until now. after they did this little ritual one of them procceded to attempt to procreate with the ground which was interesting.. don't know if you know but do turtles mate when they're young and is this ritual a sure sign or can it have no meaning sometimes?

  • LOOKS LIKE THERE HAPPY SLAPPING LOL

  • tell the turtles to take it off!

  • what if the turtle starts biting the female?? i need too know what to do asap cuz mines does that nd i keep them separate some times when it happens

  • @DGceNt  you'll notice at the very end he nips her nose this is just another mating ritual not agression. If you are feeding them and they start biting each other thats bad thats aggression

  • what if the turtle bites other turtles males or female ...What should i do?

  • @ KingBarlow .. can i have a question pls. ..? my res are mating theyre just about 5 inches ... can my female res het pregnant ? i think shes a whore >>

  • @09398708823 yes i think she can but they can remain pregnant for years before actually laying eggs and the conditions have to be right she wont lay them in a tank

  • I have two ten year old red eared sliders. The male does this all the time to the female. He bites her a lot too. At one point he kept biting her paws over and over until she had huge sores on them and I had to take her out of the tank until they fully healed. I don't know what to do...... Nobody I know wants a big male turtle, so I am kinda screwed. I don't want to release him into the wild because i don't know if he would survive, but I don't know what else to do. :(

  • @Sparks044 he will survive in a lake or pond a good place would have several pond near each other

  • @Sparks044 Do not release him in the wild almost every captive turtle that is released into the wild dies because they do not know how to hunt for food or get away from predators.

  • @Sparks044 same happened to me. i have to keep the male seperate permanently. he in the pond and the female in the tank.

  • @Sparks044 You need to find a rescue or another home for your turtle, releasing captive pets into the wild is as good as killing them.

    In addition, you could always get another tank to keep them separately.

  • @Sparks044 sorry for not replying a whle ago but my aunt killed them buy putting them in a little contanier and I think she crushed them and she broke into our room because she was keep p[laying with them she was oobssed with them. :(

  • @Sparks044 if you live in pennsylvania dont let him there cuz they kill our painted turtles

  • PEEK A BOO!

  • I saw this behavior on my trip to nature's classroom the two turtles ozzie and pebbles were displaying mating ritual signs and it was kinda funny cuz ozzie kept biting pebbles

  • my turlte does this to the rocks in his tank, is this bad ??

  • Now young turtle repeat after me

    "Huma Juga Biga Hima" - "Huma Juga What?...."

    "Ohh i See"

    "HIYA COMRA RADA JADA BONG GADA HEYA HIY HIY HIY HIYA HE HIYA"

    lol their doing a ritual

  • Dance battle

  • arent they fighting ?? i have two boy turtles and they do this all the time/. and looks to me like their fighting..

  • @PlatnmGurl Sorry to break it to you, but your turtles are gay lol

  • do the eggs look like baloons because i was recently cleaning the tank and i saw something that looked like a tiny baloon and when i picked it up it popped

  • @co0lkid98 yup unfertalized

    i have several

  • @KingBarlow do the males have long nails? because i have 2 red eared sliders and they both have short nails but one of them is performing this dance.

  • @Sligo1219 if the same sex do it it's a territorial thing (dominance)

  • @co0lkid98 if this keeps happening and you want to hatch the turtle eggs put the turtle in a differerent tank with sand and organic material like moss but make sure to take out rocks or big chips of wood p.s.if there is not a male in the regular tank with the female the eggs are most likely unfertal

  • How do u get your turtles to mate my male turtle always does the mating dance but my female turtle gets scared and looks as I'd she doesn't like it

    I wanna know how to make them mate!!!!!!

  • At least yours accept each other my female keeps rejecting my male :P

  • Female sliders don't reach sexual maturity until they are seven years old (human years, not dog years), males do not reach maturity until they are 5 years. They can show all the signs of the mating dance, but nothing can happen until maturity is reached.

  • I think he's pimp slappin his turtle ho

  • I feel so bad for my turtle. TwT We have a toy one next to his tank and he is doing that.

  • wtf omg i thought my turtles were play fighting but there mating holy shit but they stop a while ago but dang thats mating omg

  • my big female red eared turtle is less active and my male has recently mated and she spends time under the heat lamps more i added another heat lamp she tends to stay longer even if i come into the room, i have a big 75 gallon pond. in my house what do i do if she lays the eggs can i pick them up and put them in a warm basking light with potting soil?

  • LOL i had lots of turtles they all do it but i had all boys they did it alot guess they were gay lol

  • @SK83RJOSH Turtles flutter (shake their nails) to also show dominance over objects and territory. Females will flutter at females, and males will flutter at males to establish dominance. When a male flutters at a female, it is almost always a mating ritual.

  • I only have 1 male turtle in a 55 gallon tank and he does this whenever I put my finger up to the tank...guess he likes me. : )

  • check out my red eared slider vid n sub

  • Is there a way to make them stop? I have a turtle that is 1 year and is doing it, to my baby turtle that is only a few months old.. I dont want her to get pregnant because it isnt a good habitat for mating and laying eggs... Also are red earred sliders supposed to mate with other breeds? and, is he retarded because he is mating at such a young age??? Please help

  • @Sugarbabe2545 she wont get pregnant if the habitat isnt right. and even if she laid eggs they wouldnt make it in a fish tank. they wont even mate until the female is mature.

  • @KingBarlow But she only a few months old, I don't see why my 2 year old turtle is mating with her.. I don't know if he is retarded since he is doing this at at the age of almost 2...

    Sorry I just need a little help

    ;) thanks

  • @Sugarbabe2545

    It's just a dance to get the attention of the female,

    mating is like sex..

    in this dance they don't have that..

    And they won't mate in a tank,

    they need sand and a warm place

    i have my turtles for 6 years and

    I had no eggs yet, and they 'danced' ;p

  • Well he has gotten on her and was getting it on.. haha

  • @Sugarbabe2545 my baby turtles do the same thing the only way to see if your female turtle is pregnant fell your turtle's belly and see if the turtles are less active

  • I have been keeping terrapins for 2 years and they have never mated. I have spent so much money on setups etc like $3500. If you keep Terrapins then you realise how expensive they are to keep properly. Forget about breeding them unless you have a pond in your garden because it is nearly impossible to breed them indoors. Anyway they make great pets.

  • @KingBarlow thank you i was going to ask the same question

  • @Sugarbabe2545 A turtle which is a few months old is simply too young and too small to become pregnant. Females do not reach sexual maturity until 3 to 4 years of age, and a shell size of 7 to 8 inches long.

  • check out my RES

  • shit my turtles do that all the time

  • Believe it or not, my turtle performs this mating dance. In front of my dog. I haven't been able to film her in the act but I hope to soon.

  • Always fascinating to watch.

  • you should check them out in some of my updated vids like "feeding time" then ud love it

  • Yes I will go take a look, thanks

  • Males max is 10 I thought

  • i can concur with this my male is remaining this size as my female still grows

  • @xpkggfatrick please keep ur ill informed comments to yourself

  • i have a mama turtle that i adopted along with her baby except the baby had dwarfism :(

  • whats dwarfism? Like it was too small?

  • ya its only like ..half a size of a cellphone, maybe even smaller its supposed to be WAY bigger,,

  • how mny eggs will they produce?

  • my two do that and there only 6 months old! plus there two different kinds of turtle one is a mississippi map(boy) and the other is a peninsula cooter (girl). is it even possible for my two to mate?

  • no  but thats really cool though

  • oh, i thought mine where fighting

  • @wailed72  lol

  • my turtles do that but ive also seen them doing something like that and spinning in circles is that also part of the mating dance?

  • my turtles are doing this right now..

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  • nice turtles

  • One of my turtles did that to the other, but he's only about a year and a half old. I seriously thought he was tryin to pick a fight or something!

  • Same! I was like... Uhhh.. what is he/she doing? lol! but mine is only around a year old.

  • so cute

  • my red eared sliders did that to they might have eggs

  • Not if there of the same sex douche

  • The animals on this record are clearly a male and a female.

  • Errrm, youre the idiot my friend... This is how a male Turtle impresses a female. It IS the mating ritual.

    The male will chase the female and then swim backwards and tickle the females face with it's claws to impress her.

  • your a dumbass that there premating move the male shows his nails to the female for acceptence and then the mating occures

  • Yeah this is true but no reason to call him a dumnass

  • are u an rtard? Of course its mating

  • sooner or later, ur gonna have some baby red ear sliders:P

  • got some long ass nails

  • lol kinky

  • my turtle does that to but i dont kno what kind they are

  • Mine are doing that but they arent mating?That just keep doing that.

  • Can anyone tell me why my 5 month old baby RES does that when it sees my finger outside of the tank?

    It did it also when it was a newborn (like over a week old) and recently started doing it again! D:

  • it could just think it's food

  • *kiss ;)

  • Yay, tickly turtles. : D

    My two used to do this a lot. Strangely enough though, their both males. o_o

    Also, my filter made that noise a lot too. I think you've got it too close to the surface or something. Your aerating the water? Why? o_o;; Turtles dont need oxygen in their water.

  • oxygen in the water helps the filter, there are some good bacteria in the filter that get rid of the bad

  • Oh yeah, I totally forgot about that. x_x Sorry.

    But wouldnt extra aeration mean extra algae growth also? I'm not sure. My tanks messed up in any case, we need to get a better enclosure for my two RES's. -_- My other enclosure for my up-and-coming Snakenecks is MUCH better. : )

    Finding a decent filter is hard though. : (

    I find even Fluval and so on sucks pretty bad. (Ironic comment of the year.)

  • i think some pets store have something you put in the water to stop algae growth

  • Yeah, I know what you mean, I think I have that stuff still spare left over from my old tropical fish tank. : ) I wasn't particularly sure if you could use it with terrapins, but heck, if you can use it for fish, why not? : {

  • i dont think its that harmful to turtles cuz fishes have to breath the water and their gills are really sensitive turtles just drink it

  • Yeah. : )

  • if the males do it to each other, this is a sign of dominance and the turtles may begin to fight.

  • Yeah. Mines had been doing it for a long, long time, and nothing ever came out of it. They were seperated for about six months when a lot of family disasters all occurred at once and one of them had to go to a different tank in a different house.

    Nowadays, when I put them together, there is NO tickling whatsoever. The smaller of the two just LITERALLY tries to kill the bigger one every time. No tickling or anything, just.. KIILLLL. And the big one doesnt even attack it ONCE.

    Its all weird.

  • mee too

  • @tw1stedgrudge Your turtles should be in separate tanks, because they can and will injure one another.

  • @jhood87 They have been seperated. However, I no longer own them. But they have been seperated since the first very vicious fight that they had. I always knew that they were two males and they were a rescue case, and they were at first okay in a tank together. Just when they were seperated they decided they didn't want to be in the same tank anymore, and thus, they were seperated soon as I could manage. It was all the lil one being aggressive tho' - and I had a HUGE male that didn't care, lol.

  • My turtle's just a tiny bit smaller than them and it's only a year old!

  • APPARENTLY, The male thinks fluttering his nails in the female's face is HOT, and not freaky. =.=

  • My sliders do this as well... i was wondering what it was they were doing

  • HAHAHAHAAH heehe funny

  • thats funny, haha!!

  • Bon Chick A WON OWAN

  • i have a question; i have 2 red ear sliders, however, one is older then the other but they still do this (one is wild, the other domsestic) do you think mine will mate?

    btw, since this vid is old, have yours mated yet?

  • how do u know how old they are, i never knew that when 2 of mine died and i still don't know how old my other 2 are.

  • apearl420

    lolz

  • check my vid...mine does that to one of the rocks..lol..

  • dude my turtle is doing that to a baby turtle.

  • what?

  • yeah do u know what that means???

  • the mating dance

  • nope, like frogs they store water. this means too long with out water over a week is vary unhealthy for them because they sstart trning ab luish color on theyre shell and skinn from lack of water, and they may deie when they go back in the water too

  • I WOULD SHOOT THEM WITH MY AK-47

  • woah how did u get one?!!?

  • go and see your local therapist first.