If the damage has already been done, and you have a freshwater turtle at home, you should know how to take care of him/her, in order that he/she does not die.
This, in fact, is the most probable thing that may happen within a few years (if not months) from his/her entry into your habitat.

At the moment, the most common turtles you can find in homes are:
- Red Ear Turtle (Trachemys scripta elegans)
- Yellow Ear Turtle (Trachemys scripta scripta)
- Graptemys kohni (Map Turtle)

Below you can find "vademecums" for the care of turtles.

Our experience suggests reading a great number of handbooks in order to have information about this subject, not yet much known.

- Vademecum n. 1 (by A C Highfield)
- Vademecum n. 2 Example of an aquarium for freshwater turtles (by Riccardo)
- Vademecum n. 3 Another example of an aquarium for freshwater turtles (by Giuliano)

N.B.: You should not think that by following the advice of this vademecum the life of a turtle becomes acceptable. It's only a way to mitigate a suffering that is begun with the struggle of transportation and leads to the dead of 80-90% of breeded turtles within the first year.