underwater turtle

[messiner]

if you have the money get 1 they are awesone

 

[softturtle]

You just never Know, there was a great video segment in a documentary about a swampy lake in Africa, Lake Chad I think, that showed small turtles mobbing and eating a duck. Very strange.

WHAT? I have to see this!!! You remember what the doc. was called?

 

[guppy]

No but it was a national geographic special I think, but might have been Discovery channel. One turtle grabbed it foot and it couldn't take flight, then others kept showing up and grabbing it, eventually they dragged it under. Makes me think twice about swimming in turtle ponds, heheh.

 

[Gr8KarmaSF]

A soft shell turtle is a cheaper option.

 

[USMCtanker]

ya i would like one but i need to finda good one

 

[shawnchen89]

1 got 4 fly river turtles, they dunj need land, but they do attack fish...

 

[softturtle]

No but it was a national geographic special I think, but might have been Discovery channel. One turtle grabbed it foot and it couldn't take flight, then others kept showing up and grabbing it, eventually they dragged it under. Makes me think twice about swimming in turtle ponds, heheh.

Thats crazy!

 

[shawnchen89]

A soft shell turtle is a cheaper option.

jus got one piece today... here in sg, onli the red ear slider is legal to keep...( all other reptiles are out)

 

[guppy]

jus got one piece today... here in sg, onli the red ear slider is legal to keep...( all other reptiles are out)

Bummer, there are some great reptile there. I like your local snake, the striped kukri (Oligodon octolineatus), I was just reading about how it actually lives in Singapore but because of it's habits is almost never seen. This picture by Caroline Watson was taken at Singapore's Sungei Buloh reserve.

 

[SimonL]

I've got a Fly River with smaller fish and he never bothers them. I would never keep my other turtles with fish that weren't expendable though. Softshells are brutally aggressive, my old spiny and chinese will kill anything that comes into the tank.

The turtles you are talking about are african mud turtles (pelusios sps, probably subniger).