My little Turtle

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Some 16 years ago I took care of a big Red eared slider (Trachemys scripta elegans), but actually it was my girlfriend's.

Now I have one of my own:


Macrochelys Temminckii.

Here you see his size:


His own Louisiana swamp:

All plants are real and selected by name.

With a little pump and a siphon back, on the left of the glass segregation the Red Clawed Crabs (Sesarma Bidens), have their place:

Also a juvenile Papua Yabby (Cherax Papuanus), lives in here.
 
very nice!.
I have been thinking about getting a baby RES aswell but need to get my big tank up and going first to clear up some space, any advise ?
 
Nice, wht kind of substrate is that? I like it a lot.
 
Ok first that is no Macroclemys, that is a Chelydra serpentina. Second you should really avoid using small particulated substrate with a young turtle like that, specially a snapper. Your turtle can easily ingest some subsrate resulting in a gastrointestinal obstruction that is potencially fatal and hardly treatable in a small turtle. Replace the substrate in the turt side with some large pebbles or something similar. You can keep plants that are potted but make shure the turt has no acess to the pot´s substrate.
 
coura;4180796; said:
Ok first that is no Macroclemys, that is a Chelydra serpentina. Second you should really avoid using small particulated substrate with a young turtle like that, specially a snapper. Your turtle can easily ingest some subsrate resulting in a gastrointestinal obstruction that is potencially fatal and hardly treatable in a small turtle. Replace the substrate in the turt side with some large pebbles or something similar. You can keep plants that are potted but make shure the turt has no acess to the pot´s substrate.
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yeah I didn't notice that you said it was an alli snapper. you may want to double check that.

The substrate on the other hand looks soft, not like pebbles or anything but more like granulated mud.... maybe I am wrong but if it is something soft like that then it will not be a problem.
 
Vicious_Fish;4181106; said:
That's no RES, that's a Common Snapper. Hope you have a big enclosure planned for the future.
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I think you may have misread the post...
 
OK, so its not an Alligator Snapper,
not a RES (what's a RES?),
and a Common Snapper is not the same as an Alligator Snapper.
I get it.

But I also red there are a lot of hybrids.
But taken its a Common Snapper, and I believe you all when you correct me, the lovely bugger is not gonna be as large as an Alligator Snapper would be.
Right?
Thats good news then.
My Red Eared Slider was over 30 centimeter. About 13" that is.
I red and searched a lot before I took this one in.
The only thing I got wrong was its name.
Size, maintenance and all has no big differences between the species.
So whats in a name? :D

The substrate is kinda granulated mud. But someone could name it little pebbles.
I reckon in nature there are also bebblebeds. :confused:
But Im not tending to be stupid and take your advice in consideration.
I observe him feeding and exploring, and by any time I can place him
in another tank.
Cause call me stupid but when he outgrows his larger pebbles should I replace them by boulders?
You can take my joke, I know you can!
 
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