Their plant intake increases with age. Otherwise, you can give them their own pond with an enclosure around it. If some show up on their own that you do not want, try to nab them when they sun on rocks during the day and relocate them. I would love to make an enclosed pond for Eastern painted turtles. They also usually sleep buried in the bottom at night.
Males are smaller and have longer claws on their front feet.
Males usually start to breed at 3 years old and females at about 6 years old. Breeding occurs in April and May in moderate climates. Females lay 5 to 20 eggs each year in early summer. The eggs hatch in early to mid-fall but some hatchlings may spend the winter in the nest and come out in spring. Sliders Sliders belong to the genus Trachemys and used to be sold at dime stores all over the place before the salmonella scare.