Can Anyone help ? Australian turtle for pond

[SirReptile]

Hi I'm planning on building pond in my backyard ,
the pond will be in the sun most of the day also I will include a shaded part of the pond,
the trouble is choosing a turtle for the pond the turtle must be Australian as I cannot get anything else , the pond will be aproximately 3 metres long by 2 metres across and 1metre deep with an island or two,
also I was thinking of putting some fish as well ( pleco, koi , yabbies, mussels, mosquito fish not sure)
please suggest some also if you have previously had a turtle advice would be helpful.

thankyou

 

[Miguel]

I like your snake heads very much....good swimmers, loooong neks. Very interesting and funny turtles

 

[otmmy]

Hi I'm planning on building pond in my backyard ,
the pond will be in the sun most of the day also I will include a shaded part of the pond,
the trouble is choosing a turtle for the pond the turtle must be Australian as I cannot get anything else , the pond will be aproximately 3 metres long by 2 metres across and 1metre deep with an island or two,
also I was thinking of putting some fish as well ( pleco, koi , yabbies, mussels, mosquito fish not sure)
please suggest some also if you have previously had a turtle advice would be helpful.

thankyou

Just curious whats a yabbie? lol its fun to say though(especialy when saying it in an aussie accent)

 

[SirReptile]

A yabbie is like a freshwater lobster but smaller I can't remember the other names for it that you'd probs know type it in on google

 

[SirReptile]

Ill most likely get a small feeder on which will be smaller and cheaper

 

[otmmy]

Oh a crayfish ok.Well I cant wait to see the pond take shape. Make sure to keep us updated with lots of pics.

 

[SirReptile]

That the one, ill be happy to

 

[turtles]

australian turtles are crazy hunters so rainbow fish a purple spotted gudgeons if 50 got a 12 000 litre pond then queensland lung fish if u live in queens land i got turtle and they eat any thing i had a 2.5ft barra a while back and my turtle niopped its fins so i gave him to a mate so be aware one day it might become feeeder fish

 

[SirReptile]

K thanks for the advice