The colors that you can see on slider turtles are usually red or olive green. The skin and shell of a slider turtle is splotched with red or yellow. Some slider turtles have a dash of red behind their eyes and they are called red-eared sliders. Another subspecies is the yellow-bellied slider, they have yellow blotches behind the eyes and yellow markings on the belie. The yellow marking from the bellies that tend to reduce as they grow older.
Slider turtles are vegetarians and they prefer a vegetarian diet. On warm days they gather in groups and stack themselves on each other. The whole stack will plunge in the water if they get frightened. Except the hibernation period, they are very active throughout the year. Slider turtles can been seen only in the morning, when they start the feeding activity or when they are basking in the sun. They are usually sleeping at the bottom of the water or floating on the surface. The Slider turtle is very aggressive during the mating season, they tend to bite and ram other turtles. The nesting and mating season occurs during April and July.
They usually are located in the Lower South-Eastern United States and they live in ponds, streams, rivers, lakes, swamps, sinkholes, sloughs and bays. They usually migrate from place to place.