guess what i picked up at the family reunion!

[mudskipper]

thanks for the link. I think i might have an aligator. I have heard that wich either type, the shell is roughly textured when they are young. Are the commons still like this when they are palm sized like mine. The common snapper's sides seem to be well rounded. mine's shell has the spikes at the rear. I am still not an expert, so there will be pics. u guys tell me if it is an alligator. If it is, what do i need to do differently.

 

[demjor19]

Unless it's an ally snapper it probably won't break 35 lbs. It took mine 8 years to hit 23 lbs. I kept him in a 4 x 4 x2 deep for the first 5 years and he was fine.
If he's hitting the food as soon as you drop it in that means he's settling in and starting to feel secure, so, GOOD JOB! Try offering him chunks of fish too. If you like to fish you can bring home a few for him and chop them into cubes and freeze it for him.
Oh, and BTW, the whole big post on w/c vs captive bred was just to show how asinine it is to argue over that topic. All animals were wildcaught at some point...

the alligators are the bigger ones. the largest alligator snapper ever caught was 236 pounds. the average ADULT is 150-175 pounds. the common stays much smaller. they range from about 60-80 pounds average as an ADULT.


the common snapper would do fine in a pond in NE during the winter. i dont think the alligator would do so well. where did you catch him?

 

[mudskipper]

a retired sewage dump whose water coms from the meat packaging place and fire deparment. Town is hastings Ne

 

[mudskipper]

http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=77739

 

[regis]

The difference is this animal WAS in the wild and was TOOK from the wild (which could well be illegal anyway!) and was not even acclimatised in the right way anyway!QUOTE]

he may have been TOOK from the wild, but i think he was taken from the wild

i never said your animals were wild. i said many are wild caught. and snapping turtles are very much legal to harvest here. in fact thousands are killed and eaten each year. get your facts straight.

For food!
read your local laws regarding fishing/hunting, i'm sure it will say that