Turtle with large pretitory fish?

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Fire Eel
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Hey guys, i'm really fascinated with turtles. and would love to have one in my tank residents are mixed predatory fish at the mo, all over 5". Tanks is currently 4' but will be 6x2x4 before i get a turtle if i do... what are my options if any? i really like map turtles, but i know they eat fish,would they take on any thing, bigger say twice the size? and how fast do they grow? if not what options are there???
Thanks peps!
 
This has been posted many times with lots of different opinions. I'm going to give you my personal experiences. The ONLY turtle I would mix with fish is a Fly River turtle, and only with fish of equal size or larger. In my experience eventually your turtle will decide it would like a taste of those plump fish swimming by it all the time and will take a turtle beak sized bite of your beloved fish. Most aquatic turtles have very strong bite force and will go at fish much larger than themselves. It's just instinct. So, to sum it up, I wouldn't try it.
 
Yeah I forgot to go into that topic too. I figured if he was considering map turtles he wasn't really looking into the $600 plus turtle. Damn thats an expensive turtle...
 
and illegal to import to the uk now... but i read lots of things on frt eating fish too... i no where i could get a frt for not as much as $600 but its 8" at least.... and too big to risk with my fish i think... just thought maybe poss if a really small map but then again my dunb pbass wud prob keep tryna eat it... may its a dumb idea....
 
You can always put a glass divider into you aquarium, so it would look like it is interacting with the fish. :D
 
Also to point out, Map turtles get pretty big, females of some species can have a shell length of over a foot. And they have bone crushing jaws for breaking open snails and clams. They would make short work of a fish!
 
FRT is your only chance... and even then when they get to a certain size, you probably won't be able to (and sometimes even the smaller ones go after them, so even they are hit and miss).
 
just to let you know that Filipe's FRT already badly mauled his Jardini.....so you guys were right...
 
Miguel;1001218; said:
just to let you know that Filipe's FRT already badly mauled his Jardini.....so you guys were right...
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Shame. Did he notice the jardini beforehand giving the frt a hard time, or checking it out enthusiastically?
 
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