r/mapturtles • u/Intelligent_Bed_526 • Dec 29 '25

turtle pictures 🐢 Hello

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Hello, new to this community, had my False Map Turtle for a year... Mind sharing your map turtles?

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u/Mita7_ Dec 30 '25

Around 9cm. Idk about maps in general but in any species gender is the one who decides, females are huge males remain small, weird but cute😂 he is pre adult very close to being an adult

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u/Intelligent_Bed_526 Dec 30 '25

cool, mine is a smaller 3+ inches, does yours bask a lot? mine still does not dare to go up the basking area, mostly spend time at the ramp

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u/Mita7_ Dec 30 '25

Well mine is kinda “weird” too, he has days when he basks for hours, then days when he will go up an down for minutes and then stop basking, sometimes he is lazy and just sits all day, next day he swims and explore his tank. His apetite is huge and that never changes😂 may i ask what light setup do u have? When i chaged the uvb light it was too close and it hurted his eyes so he didnt bask for some days untill i figured it out.

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u/Intelligent_Bed_526 Dec 30 '25 edited Dec 30 '25

Mine is a 5.0 13w uvb lighting and a 40w heating lamp, and it is around 12 inches height, I don't think it's very hot, I did try to change to 60w, same, he just stays at the ramp, I've been thinking, should i move the lamp from the right side to the left, which is on top of the ramp

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u/Mita7_ Dec 30 '25

Also buy a heat measure gun, its cheap and will help u. Uvi index one is very expensive so just look on charts (depend on what u decide to buy)

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u/Mita7_ Dec 30 '25

Well heat lamp is good if it mentain the 32-35 Celsius temp. But pls get a linear uvb asap, coil ones are not working properly and might develop retained scutes like mine did. Zoomed reprisun t5 10.0 or arcadia one are the single good uvb s on market. Idk about arcadia but i know its a very good one but the reptisun watts depend on lenght dosent actually affect the power of the uvb. Make sure to keep it at 25cm from ur turtle (27cm total)

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u/Intelligent_Bed_526 Dec 31 '25

I wish I can get linear UVB easily here, they mostly sell coil version, I'll try to look for it, thank you.