Mason M. Map (water turtle)

I'm an adult aquatic Mississippi map turtle for adoption in the York, PA, area with transport available to Baltimore. I need a new home because life happens. I'd love a 75-gallon aquarium or 100-gallon Rubbermaid or Tuff Stuff stock tank to call my own, but I could live with another female turtle such as another map turtle or cooter (sliders can be cranky, so I don't want to live with a slider). I need a basking platform, heat light, UVB light, and a really good canister or DIY water filter. I eat commercial turtle pellets and greens but loves a treat of insects or plain cooked chicken or shrimp. I need a little crushed coral in my tank to keep my beak in good shape. I love to bask under a heat light. I can also live in a FENCED-IN backyard pond in southern NJ or coastal MD starting in the summer so long as the pond is dug below the frost line (usually at least 300 gallons). IF INTERESTED IN adopting, email [email protected] with your CITY AND STATE and my name to request an application. Contrary to the urban myth, you CAN keep turtles in NJ. The MATTS adoption contract proves that you didn't take her from the wild and allows you to get a NJ permit after you adopter her. NJ requires you to obtain a permit after getting a turtle. It's fairly easy to get. Visit https://www.state.nj.us/dep/fgw/exotic_apps.htm to apply for a permit. No permit required in the surrounding states. I CANNOT live in VA, though (they have funky regulations). If you need to learn a little more about map turtles, here's a great book on aquatics, and it can be DOWNLOADED FOR FREE AT https://www.lulu.com/shop/richard-lunsford/captive-care-of-north-american-water-turtles/ebook/product-17551523.html Like turtles but can't have one? Want to help? Share the profiles of our turtles on social media. Email [email protected] to request educational flyers to share on social media. MATTS accepts tax-deductible donations at MATTS, P.O. Box 341, Highland, MD 20777, or on our website at http://www.matts-turtles.org/support.html. Rescue is funded by donations only, and we find homes for over 100 turtles and tortoises a year, as well as an occasional snake, lizard, or frog.