methos75;4585775; said:
The fact of the matter remains......They are deep water Turtles......All you have to do is look at the feet at that will tell you everything......Strong webbed feet for moving in fast current, and long claws to anchor in soft substrate.......They might not be "swimmers" like a Podoc or something similiar, but they're built to be streamlined in deep, fast moving water.......
The whole shallow water debate basically boils down to making things easy on the keeper, but mis-information is mis-information.......The only Person breeding Matas consistantly is doing it in deep Ponds......That's all there is to it......If I followed in what the "Experts" say about Matas, according to them, I'd have a really awesome shell collection......But I don't. That's not being arrogant, that's just the reality of things......You can keep a Mata in an inch of water and it will eat, breathe, and poop......Some define that as success........However, my definition of success is eating, breathing, pooping, courtship, nesting, and eventual hatchlings.......That throws a different dynamic and thinking into the equation.....
Just my thoughts on it.......
