Water Turtles for Sale

Notice for Sale of Baby Turtles

Since 1975, it has been illegal to sell a pet turtle with a shell size of less than 4 inches, except for educational and scientific purposes. In order for us to sell baby turtles to you, we require that you read and fill out this form stating your understanding and agreement with these laws.

Notice for Sale of Undersized Turtles

Turtles for Sale, Buy a Turtle

Mud Turtles as Pets - Buy a Mud Turtle

Mud turtle is the common name given to two genera of aquatic turtles: Kinosternon, mud turtles found in North and South America, and Pelusios, mud turtles found in Africa. Some species are kept as pets. Mud turtles are known for their dull shell colors and relation to the smelly musk turtles. African and American mud turtles are very different and are not closely related. Their only similarities are in their choice of habitat, both preferring shallow, slow moving bodies of water with muddy bottoms, and having a dome shaped carapace. They can grow up to about 5 inches. They live up to 50 years of age.

Slider Turtles as Pets - Buy a Slider Turtle

Trachemys is a genus of water turtles found in North, Central, and South America. They are commonly known as "Sliders". It includes the Red-eared slider (Trachemys scripta elegans), which is the most common turtle kept as a pet.

Map Turtles as Pets - Buy a Map Turtle

Graptemys is a genus of turtles known commonly as map turtles or sometimes sawback turtles. They are aquatic, freshwater basking turtles that are found throughout the eastern half United States and into southern Canada. They superficially resemble many other species of aquatic turtle, including sliders (genus Trachemys) and cooters (genus Pseudemys), but are distinguished by a keel that runs the length of the center of their carapace, and that they don't typically grow as large. The name map turtle is given to them because of the map-like markings on their carapace. Life expectancy of the map turtle range is 15-20 years.

Mississippi Map Turtle, Graptemys pseudogeographica kohni (G. kohni, 1960)
Barbour's Map Turtle, Graptemys barbouri (Carr & Marchland, 1942)
Cagle's Map Turtle, Graptemys caglei (Haynes & McKnown, 1974)
Escambia Map Turtle, Graptemys ernsti (Lovich & McCoy, 1992)
Yellow Blotched Sawback or Yellow-blotched Map Turtle, Graptemys flavimaculata (Cagle, 1954)
Northern Map Turtle, Graptemys geographica (Le Sueur, 1817) - Formerly known as the Common map turtle
Pascagoula Map Turtle, Graptemys gibbonsi (Lovich & McCoy, 1992)
Black-knobbed Map Turtle, Graptemys nigrinoda (Cagle, 1954)
Ringed Map Turtle, Graptemys oculifera (Baur, 1890)
Ouachita Map Turtle, Graptemys ouachitensis (Cagle, 1953)
False Map Turtle, Graptemys pseudogeographica (Gray, 1831)
Alabama Map Turtle, Graptemys pulchra (Baur, 1890)
Texas Map Turtle, Graptemys versa (Stejneger, 1825)

Cooter Turtles as Pets - Buy a Cooter Turtle

Pseudemys is a genus of large, herbivorous, freshwater turtles of the eastern United States. They are often referred to as Cooters, which stems from kuta, the word for turtle in the Bambara and Malinké languages, brought to America by African slaves. The genus Pseudemys is comprised of approximately seven species, although the validity of some taxa remains in question. Members of this genus are among the largest of the Emydidae, with carapace lengths reaching 17.3 in and weighing up to 22 lbs. All are aquatic, spending the majority of their time in lakes, rivers, and ponds where they can easily be seen basking on rocks and logs in sunny weather.

Pseudemys alabamensis - Alabama Redbelly Turtle
Pseudemys concinna - Eastern River Cooter
Pseudemys gorzugi - Rio Grande Cooter
Pseudemys nelsoni - Florida Redbelly Turtle
Pseudemys floridana - Florida Cooter
Pseudemys rubriventris - American red-bellied Turtle
Pseudemys suwanniensis - Suwannee River Cooter (considered by some authorities to be a subspecies of P. concinna)
Pseudemys texana - Texas River Cooter

Painted Turtles as Pets - Buy a Painted Turtle

Painted Turtle (Chrysemys picta) is a reptile that is common in southern Canada, the United States, and northern Mexico and is related to other water turtles such as sliders and cooters. This turtle lives in ponds, lakes, marshes, and in slow-moving rivers that have soft, muddy bottoms. The maximum carapace size, or shell length, for painted turtles is 10 inches. Its shell is used to protect it from its predators.

The skin of an adult Painted Turtle's head, neck, feet and tail, and the carapace-edge (marginal) scutes have a red and yellow striped design that gives the appearance of having been hand-painted. The plastron, depending on the subspecies, can be entirely yellowish or yellowish-orange, mostly yellowish with a dark pattern in the center, or may have a bold, elaborate pattern of yellow, orange, red and dark gray. The background skin tone of the painted turtle varies from olive green to solid black. The Painted turtle is the only species in the genus Chrysemys. It comprises four sub-species: the Eastern, Southern, Midland, and Western Painted Turtle. The only species of Painted Turtle that has a stripe on its back is the Southern Painted Turtle.

Eastern Painted Turtle (C. p. picta)

4 1/2-6" males, 6-8" females
Scutes of carapace in straight rows
Front edges of large scutes form bands across carapace (aligned)
Two bright yellow spots on each side of the head
Plain yellow or yellow-orange plastron may have one or two small dark spots.
Range: Nova Scotia to Georgia. Intergrading with the Midland in much of the Northeast
Midland Painted Turtle (C. p. marginata)

Midland Painted Turtle (C. p. marginata)

Large, alternating (staggered) carapace scutes
Vaguely oval or narrow elongated medium-to-dark gray plastral blotch centered on the mid-line, remainder of plastron yellow or yellow-orange
Range: Southern Quebec and Southern Ontario to Tennessee. Northwest Georgia and extreme Northeastern Alabama

Southern Painted Turtle (C. p. dorsalis)

4-5" males, 6-8" females
Single broad orange or red stripe on back, occasionally yellow or whitish in color
Alternating (staggered) carapace scutes
Plain yellow plastron which may have one or two tiny black spots
Range: Southern Illinois to the Gulf of Mexico. Southwest Alabama to Southeastern Oklahoma. Isolated colony in central Texas
Note: This subspecies is easily recognizable by the stripe on its back- it's the only Painted Turtle that does

Western Painted Turtle (C. p. belli)

4 1/2-7" males, 8-11" females, thus making westerns the largest type of the subspecies
Netlike pattern on carapace
Alternating (staggered) carapace scutes
Distinctive gaudy, red, orange and dark gray branched pattern on otherwise-yellowish plastron much larger than the plastral pattern in the Midland.
Range: Southwestern Ontario and Southern Missouri to the Pacific Northwest. In Idaho this turtle can be found in the Panhandle [11]