I know first hand that they're super hardy - you might not be able to keep them in a toilet bowl like you can with RES, but it's not like they have any special care requirements either.
Keeping baby razorbacks with baby terrapins?
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dirtyblacksocks;3243319; said:
Ha ha, you'd think there is nothing hardier than a RES, but there are plenty of turtles that will beat out a RES when it comes to hardiness. They are the best at invading though, lol.
Ok now here I must stay on the causion side and say to quarentine new animals, if you are receiving a TRUE cb and well adapted animal you can ease it up but imagen you are living happely on one place and all of the sudden someone puts you in a box and ships around the country and you arive confused and kind of tyerd a long way from the only reality you have knowed your entire life. Wouldnt you like to have a few days alone in your new home away from competicion to figure things out? I gess yes
Because this is a turt from a good sorce all you have to do is let her rest for a few days, get her to know you and see if she eats good and then put her in the defenitive home.
And your combo should be perfectly compatible if you put enough resting places in the for of bog wood for the razorback and the terrapin is well adapted to fresh water. As for terrapins being hardy, the awnser is yes terrapins are hardy NOW with our current knowlege, tecnology and cb animals. Not very long ago terrapins were considered delicate and problem prone turtles and very few people were trully capable of keeping them alive and triving, let alone breeding them. And yes res are not by any means the hardiest of turtles and they can be tricky to breed. Ive bred 47 Mauremys mutica of wich 2 didnt survive from 2.1 and I have 3.7 res and in all my years only 2 hachlings of wich only one survive (but the breeding was acidental)
Because this is a turt from a good sorce all you have to do is let her rest for a few days, get her to know you and see if she eats good and then put her in the defenitive home. And your combo should be perfectly compatible if you put enough resting places in the for of bog wood for the razorback and the terrapin is well adapted to fresh water. As for terrapins being hardy, the awnser is yes terrapins are hardy NOW with our current knowlege, tecnology and cb animals. Not very long ago terrapins were considered delicate and problem prone turtles and very few people were trully capable of keeping them alive and triving, let alone breeding them. And yes res are not by any means the hardiest of turtles and they can be tricky to breed. Ive bred 47 Mauremys mutica of wich 2 didnt survive from 2.1 and I have 3.7 res and in all my years only 2 hachlings of wich only one survive (but the breeding was acidental)
Alright - to re-iterate on the razorback:
It was captive bred locally to here, cared for by a hobbyist, cared for in shop for two days before being taken home, and eating like a pig. It did not need to be QT'd.
This enclosure is fine for these turtles, why would it be too big? They see me and straight away dart over for food, eat to their hearts content and swim around in the tub before going back to basking...
How is that in any way "too big"?
Once again, my gripe with people are here is that a lot of them seem to have read all sorts of things about the husbandry requirements of hundreds of different animals - but it doesn't seem like they have real life hands on experience with keeping a wide variety of pets.
If that statement doesn't apply to you, then you have no reason to get offended. But if it does, you really need to stop regurgitating criticisms just because some one on the internet said it won't work...
It was captive bred locally to here, cared for by a hobbyist, cared for in shop for two days before being taken home, and eating like a pig. It did not need to be QT'd.
This enclosure is fine for these turtles, why would it be too big? They see me and straight away dart over for food, eat to their hearts content and swim around in the tub before going back to basking...
How is that in any way "too big"?
Once again, my gripe with people are here is that a lot of them seem to have read all sorts of things about the husbandry requirements of hundreds of different animals - but it doesn't seem like they have real life hands on experience with keeping a wide variety of pets.
If that statement doesn't apply to you, then you have no reason to get offended. But if it does, you really need to stop regurgitating criticisms just because some one on the internet said it won't work...
Ho is criting what?dirtyblacksocks;3244264; said:
The big enclosure thing is because just like baby snakes baby turtles can become very disoriented in a too big enclosure ,really shy and dificult to get to feed, wich isnt too surprising considering anything will snak on them in the wild. If yours react to your presence and come imediatly in the expectacion of food you can use the tank they are currently on. But now it seems that you are the one that doesant have alot of hands on experience because if you had you would know that When I bred turts (and I hope to do it again on the future
) I allways got a few that simply had to be isolated in a tank full of plastic or natural plants in order to get them to eat and I remenbar that quite a few had to be target fed with a stick or left alone with some bloodworms in order to eat, now thats when a small tank comes in handy, when they start to trust their keeper and really start growing they get hard as nails and can be put in a grow out tank with the rest of them
Ugh - everyone just stop posting in this thread, or if you are going to post use sentence structure and paragraphs.
I'm done argueing over all of these SEMANTICS, obviously some of you are overly cautious with your pets, which is your own decision. That doesn't mean you need to lecture me about it after I've already stated repeatedly that I work in a pet store and have 20 years experience in the hobby.
Quit regurgitating!
I'm done argueing over all of these SEMANTICS, obviously some of you are overly cautious with your pets, which is your own decision. That doesn't mean you need to lecture me about it after I've already stated repeatedly that I work in a pet store and have 20 years experience in the hobby.
Quit regurgitating!
Can a mod please close this thread? Sooner or later I'm going to get pissed off and post somthing I shouldn't.
dirtyblacksocks;3243319; said:
+1 on that my diamondback i purchase from a breeder are awesome, as long as they're CB and raised in freshwater they'll be fine even thought ideally brackish environment is more suited to prevent certain diseases due to bad water quality
