Journal of my 3 x FRT Community setup

[Schmike]

wounds of the small boy:

the "girl":

the boy:

 

[Mike D]

very nice pics..

i love FRT i would love to have one someday

 

[Schmike]

very nice pics..

i love FRT i would love to have one someday

thanks.

as of this morning. i can see the bigger boy giving the othe 2 some bites. but its nothing serious. he release his bites within seconds.

 

[Schmike]

so far the small boy is hiding in a corner most of the time. no new injuries found on him.

 

[Stinkiray]

How do you know if it's a boy or a girl?

 

[Oddball]

You would think these bites would have been cause enough to separate the trio. Your turts are still very young and haven't fully developed their aggressiveness. As they mature and become stronger, the bites will result in missing toes, damaged carapace edges, and worse. I had to put down a female because another slightly larger female tore her lower jaw nearly completely off. My 'experiment' included 2M and 2F FRTs in a 650gal.
Such an experiment may not be in the best interest of these animals especially in light of the number of adverse reports on sites such as this one.

 

[VLDesign]

You would think these bites would have been cause enough to separate the trio.

This isn't going to end well and we all know it.

 

[Schmike]

How do you know if it's a boy or a girl?

just estimating. nothing is confirmed till they mature.

You would think these bites would have been cause enough to separate the trio. Your turts are still very young and haven't fully developed their aggressiveness. As they mature and become stronger, the bites will result in missing toes, damaged carapace edges, and worse. I had to put down a female because another slightly larger female tore her lower jaw nearly completely off. My 'experiment' included 2M and 2F FRTs in a 650gal.
Such an experiment may not be in the best interest of these animals especially in light of the number of adverse reports on sites such as this one.

This isn't going to end well and we all know it.

i also agree with oddball. this is definitely not my permanent plan.

once they are bigger, which is in around another year's time, i will definitely rent a big pond for them. this tank is not even suitable for one mature FRT. how can it house 3 of them?

i definitely won't let anything go wrong with any one of them. i know how precious these turtles are and i still have to account to their previous owners if anything happen to them since i adopted 2 of them from others.

if within the next few days/weeks there are more injuries i will definitely separate them.

i'm prepared to separate them anytime once strong aggression shown by any of the FRTs.

 

[OhHai]

So you'll keep them together for another year when they are clearly aggressive with each other already?

 

[Schmike]

just estimating. nothing is confirmed till they mature.






i also agree with oddball. this is definitely not my permanent plan.

once they are bigger, which is in around another year's time, i will definitely rent a big pond for them. this tank is not even suitable for one mature FRT. how can it house 3 of them?

i definitely won't let anything go wrong with any one of them. i know how precious these turtles are and i still have to account to their previous owners if anything happen to them since i adopted 2 of them from others.

if within the next few days/weeks there are more injuries i will definitely separate them.

i'm prepared to separate them anytime once strong aggression shown by any of the FRTs.

So you'll keep them together for another year when they are clearly aggressive with each other already?

as mentioned above.

i dont see them chasing one another now.

initial stages there will definitely be some aggression shown for them to dominate one another. once they know whose the boss in the tank, the aggression should be lowered.