Looking for Alligator Snapping turtle

[Miguel]

They arent dangerous to handle or clean. Avoid the head, its pretty easy. They don't want to waste energy to hurt you anyway, no animal does. A small one is easy to lift out of the tank anyway during cleaning. Just watch your hands.

FULLY AGREED. No problem whatsoever, as opposed to Common Snappers which are active hunters and "hand pursuers"....

 

[loconorc]

Dude, you have no idea of common snappers if you've only kept allis! LMAO the juvie at the center, Bowser, he chases your finger around the tank and bullies past everyone in the tank for food. Even the half-dollar sized baby one is quite the little demon lol.

You keep commons miguel?

 

[Miguel]

I do, yes. Of the serpentina and osceola persuasion.

 

[loconorc]

Sweet! Theyre a blast huh? Much more fun than pond turtles and the like. I'd like to get a leucistic alli if I could find a way to show it off.

Have you seen the hypo snapper? FREAKY. Well good luck with yours! I'll put a pic of ours at the nature center, Bowser.

 

[lovespunaround]

My common snapper, now my mom's, has been a hand-chaser since about three weeks after I got her. She's now a good eight to ten inches long and she lives in a 300-gallon stock tank in the back yard. My mom lets the algea grow in the water so it's dark green and murky (the way Fluffy likes it), and there's been a couple of close calls where my mom was dangling dead mice over the water and not watching. She pays more attention now....and doesn't hold onto the mice anymore.

 

[loconorc]

Haha, can't get enough of snappers! Makes me want a common for myself instead of an alli. Even if allis arent as fun, they make a damn impressive display!

Ever caught a monster one in the wild? Its humbling to say the least. Those beasts are disturbingly powerful.

 

[wild caught]

john richards is the way to go for allys...check laws