Miguel is going to love it. As if its a boy or a girl its really pretty much impossible to tell ,he´s/she´s to young. But if you plan to house him in a large outdoor pond it doesant mater. The problems ocurr when people have female turts indors and the turt produces eggs and has no place to lay them. Besides feeding him a good variety of animal food try to teach him to like leafy veggies like dandylions, turnip greens ,etc, so that he doesant refuse to eat them when hes grown up. That thing of snappers being 100% carnivores is a myth. In the wild they eat loots of aquatic plants. It has even been found that aligator snappers eat loots of haycorns
Good luck with that litle critter
