Snapper sunbathing

[olllie]

Heres Machilla, my smallest snapper.
About 4" carapace.
I switched the lights to his old exo terra tl 5.0.
This is the next day:











Now noboddy never say snappers dont sunbathe no more not. So dont.
They do.
He also swims a lot.
To hunt the Endler guppies.
Issnt he lovely?

 

[HPIZZLE]

omg all your setups are spectacular!!!
will you make one large video possibley sometime to show them all off? even your fish tank is fantastic!!

 

[Vicious_Fish]

Nice setup along with a great example why snappers should have a place to haul out. Some just like to bask more than others. I've seen them bask in shallow water with their shells exposed when I go fishing from time to time.

 

[iHonesty]

chillin!!!

 

[A. gigas]

Nice snapper!

 

[methos75]

Mine has never basked, but he is a AST Lol

 

[Lepisosteus platyrhincus]

Mine wont bask. I have one living in a window well(huge, but jumps right back in as soon as I take it out, will meed to take it far away) and it is covering itself it mud. But yeah necer seen them bask ever. Cool pic

 

[Bogwoodbruce]

He looks great! Bigger than 4".

 

[Wiggles92]

Nice snapper.

The little common snapper that I used to have never wanted to come out of the water for any reason; in fact, it got pretty mad when I tried to coax it onto it's basking land area. Just goes to show how variable the behavior can be in these awesome turtles.

 

[kevinfleming21]

My snapper is about 6 inch carpace now in less than a year, got him at the size smaller than a nickle. He NEVER comes out of the water, cool to see though