Breeding sliders?

[synnottpaul]

Dose anyone have experience breeding sliders?
Could anyone tell me about it?
And about the kind of set up you need to do this?
Any info at all would be appreciated.

[JuliusSqueezer]

I'm not sure...I know they are not as common in Ireland as they are here and perhaps you have a market for them but here in the states...Slider Breeders are about on par with the jerks that keep breeding Iggies and Burms. Those 3 animals in particular appear to be the biggest US impulse pet trade disposable herps. I suppose if you have a good sized pond with a "beach" or nesting area for them to lay in, they might reproduce for you. You'll probably need to incubate them. I don't know if your climate will work or not.

[synnottpaul]

No our climate wouldn’t be right at all. I have two large indoor enclosures at the moment, and in a year or so- I will have an extra room, which I plan to fill with aquariums. I also plan to build a large out door pond to keep them in for the summer months. I would like to breed them mainly out of interest; I’m fairly confident that there is a market for them here, at random our pet stores have them, they usually sell at lightening speed.
Things I would like to find out are, depth of sand, temperatures ect.
And I hear that Hibernation is part of the cycle?