SINGAPORE - 24 JUN 2026: A small plastic tank with water to house a 3-MONTH-OLD RED-EARED SLIDER. it has a green basking platform (R), 50-watt heat lamp (R, corner), submersible heater set at 28 to 30 degrees C set on for 24 hours and a water filtration pump with sponge and charcoal filters which must be replaced 1-2 monthly. The set up is in a pet shop selling sliders.
Caring for a 3-month-old red-eared slider in an apartment requires a 15 to 20-gallon tank (upgrading to 40+ gallons as it grows), a submersible water heater (76°F -- 85°F water), a dry basking dock, and specialized UVA/UVB and heat lamps. Feed them daily with high-quality pellets, insects, and dark leafy greens. FEED them in a separate tank to keep the main tank water clean.
Tank Setup & Water Quality
Tank Size: Start with a minimum 15 to 20-gallon tank, but keep in mind they grow rapidly and need 10 gallons of water per inch of shell length. [1, 2]
Water Depth: The water should be deep enough so the baby can easily flip over if needed, usually around twice the length of the shell.
Filtration: Turtles are extremely messy. Use a high-quality submersible or canister filter rated for twice the volume of your tank to keep ammonia and nitrate levels safe. [1, 2]
Maintenance: Perform weekly 25% water changes. According to a consensus among keepers on Facebook, you should do 50% changes when nitrates are high, but never clean the filter media and change the water during the same week to protect beneficial bacteria. [1, 2]
Substrate: Use either bare bottom or large river rocks that are bigger than the turtle’s head to prevent choking. [1]
24 Jun 2026 interview with a 37-year-old man who has the sliders for the past 20 years.
1. FEEDING 1.1 3-month-old. 3 globular pellets in a separate tank daily. Everyday brand. 1.2 Older ones. Bigger pellets. Don't give variety such as vegetables or shrimp as slider will eat only shrimp. One of his sliders eat shrimp only. Another ate fish pellets. Also water will be smelly. 1.3 Feed in separate tank of water. Pollution. Save on filter changes.
2. WATER FILTRATION 2.1 3-month-old. Small filters of carbon or sponge. Need to replace monthly or two-month. Sliders fed in separate tank to prevent pollution of water.
2.2 Older ones in big tank. Source from IKEA. Arowana tank too big and hard to clean. He uses deep pails e.g 2 per pail. Feed in separate pail. Attach light bulb on side of pail. UVA 6 hours. UVB 4 hours.
3. UVA and UVB. Less than 12 hours for UVA. Less than 4 hours for UVB as he is worried about skin cancer. Bulb changes according to manufacturer. There are bulbs emiting UVA and UVB lights.
3. WATER TEMPERATURE. 28 - 30 degrees 24 hourly. Air conditioning room. Water may be cold.
4. Shell rot and white spots.
5. Egg laying. Yes. Two sliders. Yearly. Infertile eggs.
SINGAPORE - 13 JUN 2026: 9.53am. Lentor Road. A deciduous tree bark heavily covered in vibrant green, velvety patches of moss and lighter, mint-green crusty patches of crustose or foliose lichen. Lichen is a symbiotic partnership between fungi and algae.
Canon R5, 80mm, manual mode, 1/25sec, f/10, iso 125
The latest stable release is SeaMonkey 2.53.23, available for Windows 64-bit, macOS, and Linux. SeaMonkey includes:
Web browser
Email client
Composer (WYSIWYG HTML editor)
Web development tools
After Installation
Install SeaMonkey.
Launch SeaMonkey.
Click Window → Composer.
Composer opens as a visual web-page editor similar to Microsoft FrontPage.
Create or open HTML files and edit them in Design mode without writing HTML code.
For your veterinary website, SeaMonkey Composer is probably the closest free alternative to the classic FrontPage experience on Windows 11. It is particularly useful if you want to edit individual HTML pages directly rather than use a website builder.
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For over four decades, Toa Payoh Vets,locatedin Toa Payoh,isdedicated to the well-being of your beloved small companions.
Our team under Dr Daniel Sing with over 10 years of experience, provides veterinary services for a wide range of animals including dogs, cats, rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters, pet mouse, pet rats, red-earedslidersand birds.
We are committed to providing compassionate and professional care, ensuring your furry, scaled, or feathered friends lead healthy lives.
History - shell not peeling well, Owner worried about eggs
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SINGAPORE - 14 JUN 2026: Veterinary healthcare: An X-ray of a 29-year-old female red-eared slider to check whether she has eggs inside her abdomen. No well formed eggs are visible. There is an blurred outline of an egg in the left side of the abdomen.
17 Jun 2026. 4.15pm to 5.30pm. Took some time to do 3 root canals of RU Molar 2. X-ray before and after taken inside room. X-ray after shows 3 opaque vertical lines of 3 root canals. Very good explanation.
As for overlap in biting of RU and RL molars 2, she will refer me to a specialist. Very pleasant patient dentist.
VIDEO. I asked Gemini AI to generate a video of four interesting Seniors who meet weekly on Thursday for lunch and dinner. They were ex-colleagues some decades so long ago. I had lunch with them at Kopitiam Food Hall, VivoCity Mall. One wore the red Manchester United shirt. Another wore a faded orange polo shirt. The third and fourth wore shirts with buttons. See the Gemini AI generated video.
SCRIPT was created by ChatGPT after I wrote a few sentences as follows:
create a video of four elderly men sitting on a table drinking coffee
and eating lunch in Kopitiam Food Hall, Vivocity in Singapore. These Chinese men are
over 70 years old. They meet to connect socially and have meals on
Thursdays. The Food Hall is modern, fully air-conditioned, low ceiling, bright and crowded with people at the various food stalls waiting for food to buy
See details of ChatGPT video prompts in https://2010vets.blogspot.com/2026/06/video-hawker-centre.html
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16 Jun 2026: I used Gemini AI to generate the 10-second video.
Script was created by ChatGPT. Create a video. inside VivoCity hawker centre dining area during a busy Thursday lunchtime in Singapore. Four elderly Chinese men over 70 years old sit together around a square table drinking traditional local coffee and eating lunch. They are longtime friends who gather weekly on Thursdays to socialize, talk, laugh, and maintain friendship in retirement.
The men wear casual Singaporean senior attire — light short-sleeve button shirts, polo shirts, comfortable trousers, sandals, and simple watches. One man in an orange polo shirt slowly stirs kopi in a ceramic cup. Another wearing a red Manchester United polo shirt eats chicken rice with chopsticks. Another in a blue short-sleeve button shirt smiles while telling a story. The fourth in a yellow short-sleeve button shirt listens quietly and laughs warmly. Their facial expressions show companionship, familiarity, and emotional comfort.
The hawker centre environment is lively and realistic. Crowds of Singaporeans queue at food stalls buying local dishes such as chicken rice, laksa, char kway teow, and nasi lemak. Food stall signs glow brightly. People carry trays through crowded aisles. Ambient movement fills the background naturally. Air-conditioned air from ceiling vents cool the diners below. The atmosphere feels cool, social, noisy, and authentically Singaporean.
Camera style is cinematic observational documentary. Flourescent lighting from VivoCity centre spot lights mixed with warm indoor food court lighting. Shallow depth of field isolates the elderly men while keeping the bustling hawker centre alive in the background.
Shot sequence:
Wide establishing shot of crowded VivoCity food court during lunchtime
Medium shot of four elderly men seated together talking and smiling
Close-up of kopi cups, chopsticks, wrinkled hands, and steaming local food
Slow-motion shot of people queuing at busy hawker stalls
Over-the-shoulder conversation shots showing friendship and connection
Ambient crowd movement and food preparation in background
Final warm wide shot of the four friends laughing together at the table
WILDLIFE SINGAPORE EDUCATIONAL VIDEO. How does an Oriental Garden Lizard live to adulthood in Singapore?
Its scientific name is Calotes versicolor. Why is it also known as the Changeable Lizard? Some people may say that the reason is that the male lizard's head and throat turns orange and black when he is in season.
Watch the video. You cannot spot the lizard until it scurries up the tree to avoid me, the videographer!
The ability to change its coat colour to match its surroundings enable it to live to adulthood on the tree as it is concealed by camouflage.
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VIDEO 1 - LONG VIDEO
How long does the oriental garden lizard in singapore live?
This wildlife educational video attempts to answer the question of how long doe the Oriental Garden Lizard (Calotes versicolor) live in Singapore.
The Oriental Garden Lizard, also called the Changeable Lizard (Oriental Garden Lizard), is common in Singapore's parks, gardens, and urban green spaces.
Its lifespan is not precisely known in the wild in Singapore, but available sources suggest:
Wild lifespan: typically about 5–7 years.
Captive lifespan: can reach around 10 years under good conditions with adequate food, UVB exposure, and protection from predators.
In Singapore, many individuals probably live less than 5 years because of:
Predation by birds, snakes, cats, and monitor lizards.
Road traffic and urban hazards.
Competition with other reptiles.
Disease and parasites.
Habitat loss due to construction.
Habitat degradation due to anti-mosquito insecticide fogging regularly in urban parks and Housing Board estates.
The species was introduced to Singapore in the 1980s and is now widespread across the island.
Some breeds of kingfishers perch on trees to hunt the lizard. They have had decreased in numbers nowadays.
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Habitat loss due to construction. Habitat degradation due to anti-mosquitoe insecticide fogging.
