Pink Snapping Turtle

[reptilerancher]

hello I'm new to the monster fish keepers forums. I just want to know what you think of my snapping turtle. it is a male and he's carapace is about a 11 inches.as you can see he is bright pink.

 

[wednesday13]

beautiful specimen very nice color morph. ive seen some orange hypos but never bright pink!

 

[CDMay]

Do you have other photos of him...out in the natural sunlight?
What has his diet been?
Looks nice in your photos!

 

[reptilerancher]

Sorry I didn't mean to mislead anyone it is not a color morph it is his diet I feed him a mix of shrimp,fish,turtle pellets,fresh fruits and verges, but what makes him that color is the cichlid pellets he is in a tank with south American cichlids.

 

[reptilerancher]

those pics are a bit old too about a year

 

[reptilerancher]

this is the most resent one

 

[wednesday13]

still looks good...and well fed lol... nice work

 

[tlindsey]

hello I'm new to the monster fish keepers forums. I just want to know what you think of my snapping turtle. it is a male and he's carapace is about a 11 inches.as you can see he is bright pink.

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[CDMay]

No worries. Very nice looking snapper! It's interesting to see that diet can influence color in turtles. My red-cheek mud turtles can color up really well when started as hatchlings on krill and shrimp along with their regulate foods.

 

[convict360]

nice turtle, he looks like he's wearing lipstick