Just to share a different kind of hatching story 
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My mother and I have been building aquaponics systems in her urban backyard the past five years or so. She is all about teaching kids/people how to farm in the city and live 'sustainably', thus we had a few nice big koi aquaponic tanks. One day, I came over and she said, "I'm doing turtle-ponics!" Basically, she brought home a couple of turtles, built a pond with a sand beach that connected to one of the aquaponics, and put a tiny white picket fence around the whole thing. It was inside of a greenhouse, like a cozy little turtle shack. Very cute. She had two turtles and they LOVED it. Fast forward to today- she's moving soon, and thankfully found good homes for all of her chickens, fish, aquaponics, and turtles. I'm helping her dig up the turtle pond, when I see what looks like a tiny turtle, in the dirt !
Call us no good, irresponsible, ugly, very bad people, but we didn't know that red slider turtles will lay eggs in the dirt/sand. I never imagined we owned lovebirds, or that babies were possible in the turtle-hutch. We called some friends that know turtles better than us, and ended up finding 9 little guys in the sand. They're so stinking cute !!! 
Its blowing my mind... I've been paranoid over my egg incubation the past 15 days, and these guys manage to hatch out on their own under the craziest circumstances. All 9 of them have already been called for at really good homes; I'm gonna miss our tiny turtle family 
...My mother and I have been building aquaponics systems in her urban backyard the past five years or so. She is all about teaching kids/people how to farm in the city and live 'sustainably', thus we had a few nice big koi aquaponic tanks. One day, I came over and she said, "I'm doing turtle-ponics!" Basically, she brought home a couple of turtles, built a pond with a sand beach that connected to one of the aquaponics, and put a tiny white picket fence around the whole thing. It was inside of a greenhouse, like a cozy little turtle shack. Very cute. She had two turtles and they LOVED it. Fast forward to today- she's moving soon, and thankfully found good homes for all of her chickens, fish, aquaponics, and turtles. I'm helping her dig up the turtle pond, when I see what looks like a tiny turtle, in the dirt !
Call us no good, irresponsible, ugly, very bad people, but we didn't know that red slider turtles will lay eggs in the dirt/sand. I never imagined we owned lovebirds, or that babies were possible in the turtle-hutch. We called some friends that know turtles better than us, and ended up finding 9 little guys in the sand. They're so stinking cute !!! Its blowing my mind... I've been paranoid over my egg incubation the past 15 days, and these guys manage to hatch out on their own under the craziest circumstances. All 9 of them have already been called for at really good homes; I'm gonna miss our tiny turtle family 
Baby turtles are adorable. They grow up pretty fast, I have two yellow bellied sliders in a temporary 20gal tank, but soon they’ll be too big for it!
