adult size of guinea side neck. thank you

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skillzizzo

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Hello fellow fish heads,

I just recently purchased this awsome little guy labeled guinea side neck. i can't seem to find my camera so i can not take any pics. I found some pics online of what he or she looks like while searching for hours for the info i wanted and atached them to the bottom of this thread. My quistion i have to ask you guys is simply what is the adult size of these cool turtels. were i bought it the guy told me they get to 5 or 6 inches max. he or she is 3 inches wide and 4 inches long in shell as of right now. And please safe the bagging i allways research stuff before i buy it i just couldn't find the size any were and i went on what the owner told me. i have kept lots of cool large fish and other turtles just not this kind. He is currently in a 45 gallon with a wet dry for filtration and a heater temp set to 76. with piled rocks for him to get out of the water and 9 inches of water filling the rest of the tank for him to swim around. I fed him half a dozen feeders yesterday just to give him something to eat and see if he would eat. I plan on feeding him a varied diet of blood worm, silversides, earth worms, frozen and fresh shrimp, and the occasional feeders that i raise my self so no risk of diese. is there any thing else you suggest for a stapple diet for him. Again my primery quistion is how big do these get as full grown adults. and best temp for him i'm asuming anything between 72 and 85 is exceptable. again these pics are not of my turtle but ones i found online so i could post what he looked like. thank you for you'r time and interest i do greatly appreciate it. And i know i such at spelling for everyone on here that likes to post nothing except comments about that to my post. Again thanks for you'r time.

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they are smaller than most other turtles available as pets. Their shell will not get larger than 6 inches but their neck will easily double that length and they are relatively active. Sounds like you have a good set up for now but eventually I would move him to a 75gal just to be sure he is getting his exercise.

Good luck with them, they are neat turtles.
 
Cool. Thanks guy's for the info i appreciate it. If you have kept them you'r self which it seems like you have. Any tips or specs on keeping them i would like to here. Mainly on what kinds of stuff you fed them that they seem to like the most thanks again for you'r time.

Jeff
 
Hummmm?! Hey wait just a minute guys, first of that is not a new guinea side neck because that term is only used for species such as Emydura and Elseya the short necked species of Chelodinae (also more taxa on this but they are not in the subject), the correct comon name for that turtle is new guinea SNAKE NECK turtle. And I shure hope you had checked the cientific name because there are several Chelodina and Macrochelodina species on New Guinea (snake neck turtles) and some a far from being small. The species that you put on the photo is Chelodina novaguineae and that species, specially for females, can grow slider size. About 25-30 cm in length. Also this are very active swimmers, so you will indeed need a very large aquaterrarium for it to live in the long term. Remenbar to keep the water warm and sparkly clean.
 
snakeguy101;4367653; said:
they are smaller than most other turtles available as pets. Their shell will not get larger than 6 inches but their neck will easily double that length and they are relatively active. Sounds like you have a good set up for now but eventually I would move him to a 75gal just to be sure he is getting his exercise.

Good luck with them, they are neat turtles.
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As you were saying;) Ok this is another snake neck usually traded under the name of New Guinea snake neck Macrochelodina parkeri and this guys easily reach or surpass slider size. They need very large enclosures to feal confy.
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skillzizzo;4367827; said:
Cool. Thanks guy's for the info i appreciate it. If you have kept them you'r self which it seems like you have. Any tips or specs on keeping them i would like to here. Mainly on what kinds of stuff you fed them that they seem to like the most thanks again for you'r time.

Jeff
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They are relativelly easy to keep if kept warm, with lots of space and clean water. A good food for them is gelatin turtle diet because it forces them to eat some vegies which they normally dont accept. Serch for a good recepy online.
I dont keep them personally because I have tanks full of much more comon species, dont ask me why:screwy: But I do know several people that keep a large diversity of them and I would love to try some cb Macrochelodina expansa and Chelodina mcordi one day, my 2 fav species:D
 
coura thank you for the info. I will have to take some pics of my turtle and put them on her for verifacation under another thread. but it looks like the pic you put on here but different. The skin color on the neck and legs is grey like that. But the rest of its skin is a very light tan or white color. the bottom of his shell is black on the sides and a yellow - white in the middle. and the top of his shell is solid brown. Thanks for you'r time.
 
coura;4368229; said:
As you were saying;) Ok this is another snake neck usually traded under the name of New Guinea snake neck Macrochelodina parkeri and this guys easily reach or surpass slider size. They need very large enclosures to feal confy.
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I realize that now, I was thinking of a different turtle, sorry.
 
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