snapper set up

[rmorse]

Is that the guy in the classroom?

 

[evilxyardxgnome]

I'm glad that snapper did make it. And you did end up getting a permit right Dan?

 

[Dan F]

Is that the guy in the classroom?

He's in the lobby, actually. Snappy is the first thing visitors see when they come to our school!

I'm glad that snapper did make it. And you did end up getting a permit right Dan?

I did get the permit, so Snappy is a legal alien.

 

[greatfulxdead]

I keep my common snapper in a 300 that is about 2/3 full (about 18" of water) that is set at about 76 degrees. I don't have a basking spot, I had one for him for 4 years and he never used it that I know of. Snappy eats mostly turtle pellets, supplemented with night-crawlers and feeders. If you can get them to eat pellets it makes things a lot easier, plus they're loaded with vitamins and minerals.

One thing you need to watch is that there is nothing in the tank that he can swallow - you can see a piece of vinyl tubing in the x-ray...

did he poop it out?

 

[Vicious_Fish]

did he poop it out?

Didn't you see the photos? They had to pull it out with forceps.

 

[Miguel]

It will, in my experience, eat the plants.

Try to get it on good quality pellets, supplemented, as Dan and Seth said, with some fish and other stuff.

Mine only eat fish.....

 

[killerfish]

Snappers will eat just about anything

I feed mine minnows, suckers, fish fillets of all sorts, Crayfish, Shrimp, cichlid pellets, turtle pellets and food sticks, night crawlers, crickets, mealworms they also need a little veggitable matter i've feed him frozen peas but as far as vegittable matter i need a few ideas my self

 

[logo]

Mine eats fish, shrimp and romaine.

 

[Vicious_Fish]

When I had snappers I fed them a varied diet of freeze-dried shrimp, Reptomin, cichlid and koi pellets, shrimp pellets, frozen shrimp, fish fillets, crickets, earth worms and fathead minnows. They also lived in an outdoor pond and had access to the water plants that lived in there. I'm not sure if they ever really ate any though.

 

[coura]

Everything here stated is absolutley correct Wich just leaves me to ad that as it grows you should also give it some high fiber pellets just as a complement like mazuri tortoise food. In the wild they eat allot of vegetable mater so its a small but important part Also dont forget to gutload any feeders you use but as this guys acept so many things there is no need to use them