Picking Up My New Albino Red-Eared Slider Turtles! | Paul Cuffaro

This red-eared slider hatchling was rescued as an egg after losing their mother to a vehicle strike earlier this year. After several weeks in the incubator, this tiny turtle was the first of several recovered eggs to successfully hatch!! About a day later and they were already enjoying their first swim lesson 🏊‍♂️ Since red-eared sliders are independent from birth, this baby will be released to their wild home very soon. Until then, we will soak up every ounce of this cuteness while baby season

We thought we'd share a video of one of our two female Red-eared Slider turtles (Susie and Sharon) laying an egg. Normally, turtles would be laying their eggs on dry land by digging a hole and laying their eggs in sand or soft soil. These two have grown accustom to laying them in water as they previously didn't have enough dry land options. Now we have a wonderful dry dock habitat where they spend part of their time each day basking and digging in their sand box. They haven't yet figured out to