3rd Annual New Year's Day Hatch!!

[featherz]

Agree, buy the 50. I have two 20's and I'm going to sell one and I think santa is bringing me a 50. The 20's are a pain to adjust (but I still love them).

 

[Peep_Show]

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Wow! Those are big! They look like they are enjoying their greens too.

Curious, do they recognize and respond to you? I assume they would but I've never had much to do with turtles other than admiring them at the zoo or rescuing our wild ones off the road.

I've lost count of the number I've rescued on the way into or out of town, there are a lot of irrigation channels and dams around here and they often go wandering over the road and through the paddocks. These are the ones I usually find Eastern Snake-Necked Turtle

I've picked up a few rarer ones too, I figure if I don't help them no one else will so I move them off the road to the nearest water source. Usually they cross pretty close to one of the irrigation channels so I just help them get to the other side faster and safer.

You are AWESOME for helping

They know their names and will come when called

They will weigh close to 200 pounds when fully grown. They are the third largest species of Tortoise on our beautiful earth. They will hopefully live to be 150 years old or even more. They are from the hottest region of Africa called the Sahel Desert. They eat hay and grass and green leafy treats

I have had them since they were three days old and they both fit in the palm of my hand together

Most of my tortoises will come when called. I have some Marbled Cherry Head Redfoots - Ceria, Silvio and Sparkle who I lovingly refer to as Curly, Mo and Larry because they will fall all over them selves to be the center of attention

Wow! What is it with chicken folk and turtles? I've got dogs, so no terrapins at present.... But I do have a turtle tattoo! (Shhhhh..... Nobody but DH knows because I'll be darned if I'm called "Turtle Butt" in anything but loving terms...) Oops!

 

[LarryPQ]

Twas two days before Christmas and all through the thread...

 

[gryeyes]

Visions of terrapins danced through my head?

 

[BHep]

 

[BHep]

And Larree in her ‘kerchief, and I in my cap,
had just settled down to watch eggs hatch.....................

 

[Melissa Rose]

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[gryeyes]

Then what do my disbelieving ears hear?
But the cheeping and peeping of chicklets so dear!

 

[Sumatra503]

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I was just thinking the same exact thing! Seems like everything i've done regarding the hatch or that I've posted about in this thread has gone horribly wrong!

Hence this morning whn i woke up half the Ghost Shrimp in my aquarium were dead and my female guppy has something wrong with her. When I opened up the filter to see if that was what had caused the ammonia spike I found three long dead shrimp in there and the filter cartridge was disgusting.

I do remember posting about fish on this thread, not to mention the Pot Bator unplug!

 

[Sumatra503]

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They were pipping and zipping all over the place,
Slow down now my chicklets, this isn't a race!