I didn't know you had a turtle! So do we... her name is Lava. We were told the easiest way to identify male versus femail was the nails. Males have VERY long nails and females don't.
We found our turtle. We still aren't entirely sure what kind she is. She kind of has the markings of a painted but not quite and kind of has the markings of a red eared slider, but again, not quite.
Anyway, our turlte lives primarily in the water. Any time I have introduced plants she won't eat them and just makes a huge mess so I gave up. She wouldn't eat turtle sticks for the longest while so we starved her til she had no choice. Then the pet store suggested guppies. By the time we had 100 guppies (they self reproduce) I gave up and flushed them all.
Then I got neon tetras. They died when we lost power. When the power came back, we raised her heat to 78 and got more tetras and a plecostomus. She has now eatern about 15 tetras AND the plecostomus! Hmmm, me thinks she likes the warmer temps!
Does your turtle stop eating when he sheds his scales? Lava does. I'll have to find pics to send you!
well the nails totally make sense - he's definitely a boy! a local little boy found ours for us - jaden had been begging us for a turtle & this little guy would catch em at his gma's
i've been wanting to try to introduce fish to sock's tank - but i suspect he would gobble them up in a heartbeat...so we'd have to go slow or he'd overeat...he thinks the sticks r ok, but prefers dried shrimp & mini krill...he also LOVES tetramin fish flakes - he'll swim around & eat those first...a turtle expert told me they're good 2 give 2 them for their color...and of course, worms - but since it's cold, he hasn't had that treat in a while
socks will slow down on eating during the colder months, even tho it's not drastically colder inside, i think the slight change in temp makes him aware of the seasons...i haven't notice a change in his eating when he's shedding tho
u should totally send us some pics - my kiddos would love to check lava out! :0)
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I didn't know you had a turtle! So do we... her name is Lava. We were told the easiest way to identify male versus femail was the nails. Males have VERY long nails and females don't.
We found our turtle. We still aren't entirely sure what kind she is. She kind of has the markings of a painted but not quite and kind of has the markings of a red eared slider, but again, not quite.
Anyway, our turlte lives primarily in the water. Any time I have introduced plants she won't eat them and just makes a huge mess so I gave up. She wouldn't eat turtle sticks for the longest while so we starved her til she had no choice. Then the pet store suggested guppies. By the time we had 100 guppies (they self reproduce) I gave up and flushed them all.
Then I got neon tetras. They died when we lost power. When the power came back, we raised her heat to 78 and got more tetras and a plecostomus. She has now eatern about 15 tetras AND the plecostomus! Hmmm, me thinks she likes the warmer temps!
Does your turtle stop eating when he sheds his scales? Lava does. I'll have to find pics to send you!
well the nails totally make sense - he's definitely a boy! a local little boy found ours for us - jaden had been begging us for a turtle & this little guy would catch em at his gma's
i've been wanting to try to introduce fish to sock's tank - but i suspect he would gobble them up in a heartbeat...so we'd have to go slow or he'd overeat...he thinks the sticks r ok, but prefers dried shrimp & mini krill...he also LOVES tetramin fish flakes - he'll swim around & eat those first...a turtle expert told me they're good 2 give 2 them for their color...and of course, worms - but since it's cold, he hasn't had that treat in a while
socks will slow down on eating during the colder months, even tho it's not drastically colder inside, i think the slight change in temp makes him aware of the seasons...i haven't notice a change in his eating when he's shedding tho
u should totally send us some pics - my kiddos would love to check lava out! :0)
omg - i didn't know what a plecostomus was, so i just googled it - lava ate a sucker fish?! (that's what my kiddos call those) that's crazy!
Sheesh Jen...you flushed 100 guppies! lol
Now I'm having turtle envy...
...we have a goldfish tho.
...danielle
It was so hard for me to "kill" the fish but the reproducing was OUT OF CONTROL!!.
I will take some pics this weekend!
The turtle is very symbolic. Just gotta keep on keeping on!
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