gators & crocs

[rayman45]

can you mix an alerican alligator with a caiman?
i would like to try.

[Jason]

For the most part you can if they are of similar size. I dont do it anymore since i had a spectacled caiman take a shot at me while i was working with the gator in the same tank. Thankfully i expect that from caiman and true crocs and hell gators too for that matter. The other thing is i'd really recomend quarantine procedures for anything new. For the most part they are very hard critters but no sense risking a healthy happy gator with a new and mostly likely farm raised/imported caiman and his little tag along critters.

Jason

[rayman45]

I HAVE 2 GAtors
1 20-24"
1 13-15"

i wanna add a 15" dwarf or smooth front caimon

i might get rid of my smaller gator too

what do you think?

[rayman45]

o yea i have my alligators on my lap now :)
the little one keeps snapping at my hand i got me twice already

[iheartfishies]

What are you going to do with them when they get gigantic?

[rayman45]

i can house them up to 3 feet
then my cousens friend owns a pet store with 3or4 gators aroud 4,5 feet

[iheartfishies]

How big of an enclosure to they need till 3 ft?....

[rayman45]

i have a giant giant kidy pool
its 10 feet X 3.5 feet X 4 feet

nice size flood lamp
4 feet of land
nice size filter

its all good

[iheartfishies]

they can't just climb out of a kiddie pool?

[rayman45]

i got plenty of time to think of that
most likely a chicken net 3-4 feet above the pool

[iheartfishies]

I hope they eat you. :)

[rayman45]

thanks
wanna come play with them

[iheartfishies]

Maybe, only if glue a live comet to your hand and put your hand in the SH tank.

[rayman45]

only eats live i would have to wiggle it around

[iheartfishies]

then you can dip something else in the tank.

[rayman45]

thats too big even for a 33" snakehead :P

[iheartfishies]

Your leg is too big?!?!?!


Yea, I guess it is. :)

[rayman45]

my 3rd leg
the special leg

[iheartfishies]

THAT....

that's just disgusting...

this is a family oriented forum.....
GOSH. :mad:

[rayman45]

then you should be banned :banhim: change it to her tho

[iheartfishies]

ya, that's messed up....

I'm totally not a HIM!...

so it's voided and I can't be banned.

[rayman45]

bannnnn

[piranha45]

spectacular thread.

[rayman45]

post whore

make that his title

[iheartfishies]

You make my insides cry.

[DON PEDRO]

:help2: Would I have a problem if I put a baby Alligator Snapping Turtle in with my American Alligators? Because I was thinking the Snapper would just stay underwater and the Gators stay mostly on land... but i thought I should ask on the forum before going and getting a Snapper and ending up someone getting critically injured or dead. :feedback:

-Don Pedro

[rayman45]

i have 3 alligator snapper with mine

they killed the sommon snappers beacause they swim around
the gator snapper caNT Swim. i put 4 in the tank when i got the gators, im down to 3 b/c i sold one to my friend.

good luck
zach

[piranha45]

i have 3 alligator snapper with mine

they killed the sommon snappers beacause they swim around
the gator snapper caNT Swim. i put 4 in the tank when i got the gators, im down to 3 b/c i sold one to my friend.

good luck
zach
were the gators alot bigger than the common snappers? Im surprised the commons didn't leave the gators without some serious chunks of flesh missing... were the commons too scared to fight back, and act like bullied fish?

[rayman45]

they were about 2-3 inches i only had 2
this was recently

let me put it this way
the week i got my frist gator(3 months ago)
i called jon richards
and i got
2 redear sliders
2 yellow ear sliders
2 fl red bellys
6 common snappers ( 4 were for friends)
10 gator snappers (4 were for friends 2 are in my 30 G)

all the regular turtles went in te gator tank
about 2 weeks ago. the gator killed most of them
still alive are one red ear slider/\and 1 yellow ear(sold to friend b/c i dident want to die)

all the common snapper were kill about a week ago

o yea the red ear slider is still alive in the gators tank
the 2 gator bask and the gator snapper bask with them

[rayman45]

o yea p45
they were scard of the gators

[hybrid_tilapia]

rayman thats very irresponsible on your part to own two gators, gators are for life they are commitment animals and do you know how much power a 4 foot gator has in it obviously you dont i have 3 spectacled caimans and two dwarf witch i have had since i was fifteen i am now almost nineteen and i know that i will have them for the rest of there lives, also do you know how much gators eat when there growing and 3 plus feet its reasons like you that the herpetological society is frowned upon i dont mean to be rude but ask any herpetologist how much care goes into alligators i can guarentee that you are not even close to properly houseing feeding and maintaning those inocent animals.....................

[rayman45]

werd

[shovelnose]

rayman thats very irresponsible on your part to own two gators, gators are for life they are commitment animals and do you know how much power a 4 foot gator has in it obviously you dont i have 3 spectacled caimans and two dwarf witch i have had since i was fifteen i am now almost nineteen and i know that i will have them for the rest of there lives, also do you know how much gators eat when there growing and 3 plus feet its reasons like you that the herpetological society is frowned upon i dont mean to be rude but ask any herpetologist how much care goes into alligators i can guarentee that you are not even close to properly houseing feeding and maintaning those inocent animals.....................
:cry:

[TNReptile]

I never had a problem with mine, as long as they are close to the same size, you shouldn't have a problem.

[rayman45]

i might try it
with a spectlated caiman

[fishnthings]

i think u should give me ur small gator : )

[DeLgAdO]

rayman it seem everything you keep you eventually sell or give away, is their anything your going to keep for life?

[rayman45]

no

i have spoken t a owner to a nice breeding farm.
he is gunna take them when im ready to let em go.