My Turtle pond with PICS and VIDEOS!!
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coral keeper
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Thanks everyone!! I live in CA, West Sacramento. Its NEVER going to freeze solid and it wouldn't even freeze a milimeter on the pond, so your rong. It hardly even gets 45 where i live and + the ground is warmer than air so the pond is going to stay warmer that the air in winter and in the summer its going to stay nice and cool. He is very healthy.
coral keeper
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Originally Posted by bjoe23
Your red eared slider looks nice and healthy. I have a litlle hatchling (about 1 1/2 in shell) in my 10, gunna be moved to a 20L. I love him! I had him for like 1 and 1/2 years
Are you going to make a pond for him when he gets bigger?
Your red eared slider looks nice and healthy. I have a litlle hatchling (about 1 1/2 in shell) in my 10, gunna be moved to a 20L. I love him! I had him for like 1 and 1/2 years
Are you going to make a pond for him when he gets bigger?
hattrick58
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This is my turtle.
coral keeper
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Originally Posted by hattrick58
This is my turtle.
He looks funny and cool! Is he in a tank or out in the back yard?
This is my turtle.
He looks funny and cool! Is he in a tank or out in the back yard?
hattrick58
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Originally Posted by Coral Keeper
He looks funny and cool! Is he in a tank or out in the back yard?
I actually don't have him. I was on a "Save The Turtles Campaign" (long story) last spring when we were looking for property in the Ozarks. This guy was crossing the road and I stopped to move him into the woods when his vivid color and personality amazed me. I ran back to the car, took this picture, then released him into the woods. He (guessing it's a male by his bright colors) is a Three Toed Box Turtle. I've had people ask me to find them one and bring them back to Texas, but I refused because they require a great deal of care, and us novices would not know how to take care of one. Plus the fact they are not suited to the climate here in N. Central Texas. Geeez, and this was the short version......
He looks funny and cool! Is he in a tank or out in the back yard?
I actually don't have him. I was on a "Save The Turtles Campaign" (long story) last spring when we were looking for property in the Ozarks. This guy was crossing the road and I stopped to move him into the woods when his vivid color and personality amazed me. I ran back to the car, took this picture, then released him into the woods. He (guessing it's a male by his bright colors) is a Three Toed Box Turtle. I've had people ask me to find them one and bring them back to Texas, but I refused because they require a great deal of care, and us novices would not know how to take care of one. Plus the fact they are not suited to the climate here in N. Central Texas. Geeez, and this was the short version......
coral keeper
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Originally Posted by hattrick58
I actually don't have him. I was on a "Save The Turtles Campaign" (long story) last spring when we were looking for property in the Ozarks. This guy was crossing the road and I stopped to move him into the woods when his vivid color and personality amazed me. I ran back to the car, took this picture, then released him into the woods. He (guessing it's a male by his bright colors) is a Three Toed Box Turtle. I've had people ask me to find them one and bring them back to Texas, but I refused because they require a great deal of care, and us novices would not know how to take care of one. Plus the fact they are not suited to the climate here in N. Central Texas. Geeez, and this was the short version......
Oh ok.
I actually don't have him. I was on a "Save The Turtles Campaign" (long story) last spring when we were looking for property in the Ozarks. This guy was crossing the road and I stopped to move him into the woods when his vivid color and personality amazed me. I ran back to the car, took this picture, then released him into the woods. He (guessing it's a male by his bright colors) is a Three Toed Box Turtle. I've had people ask me to find them one and bring them back to Texas, but I refused because they require a great deal of care, and us novices would not know how to take care of one. Plus the fact they are not suited to the climate here in N. Central Texas. Geeez, and this was the short version......
Oh ok.
coral keeper
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Lucky find. Are you going to build a pond for him? How big is he? He looks very cool!
coral keeper
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Here are some pics that i took today.
coral keeper
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Here is a pic of me.
coral keeper
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Ok. Here is a video that i took today of the pond.
pogi pants
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i put 3 hatchlings in my pond over the 3 years i lived there. and all three found a way out and ran away. make sure ur turtle can't crawl out. or if it can crawl out, make sure there's something around the pond that it can't climb over
coral keeper
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Originally Posted by Pogi Pants
i put 3 hatchlings in my pond over the 3 years i lived there. and all three found a way out and ran away. make sure ur turtle can't crawl out. or if it can crawl out, make sure there's something around the pond that it can't climb over
It had actually ran away once but thats when i didn't have the pond for it. Once day i thought id just put him on the grass on the sun and so i did. Then i got distracted and forgot about him. When i remebered about the turtle i ran back there and i didn't see it. I looked and looked all over then back yard and still didn't find it. Then my friend comes over and says he found my turtle but i just thought it was a joke. Then the next day i come over to his house and he said that again and then he showed me and so he gave me the turtle and took him back home. I was really happy he found it. He found it on the street when he was walking and he took it home. I didn't have him for 1 week. My friend had him for that long. My friend lives about 3-4 houses away from me. Then when i built the pond and when i didn't have that net on the turtle pond he got out of the pond and was on the law, he did that 2 times but each time the turtle tried to run away my dog would find him and start barking and roll the turtle around, so i ran out side to see my dog barking and trying to bite it. But when my dog bites it nothing happens to the turtle because hes built like a tank! Now i checked every little hole and put some rocks around the sliding door net thing i made so my dog or my turtle wont slide out of it. Now he will never get out.
i put 3 hatchlings in my pond over the 3 years i lived there. and all three found a way out and ran away. make sure ur turtle can't crawl out. or if it can crawl out, make sure there's something around the pond that it can't climb over
It had actually ran away once but thats when i didn't have the pond for it. Once day i thought id just put him on the grass on the sun and so i did. Then i got distracted and forgot about him. When i remebered about the turtle i ran back there and i didn't see it. I looked and looked all over then back yard and still didn't find it. Then my friend comes over and says he found my turtle but i just thought it was a joke. Then the next day i come over to his house and he said that again and then he showed me and so he gave me the turtle and took him back home. I was really happy he found it. He found it on the street when he was walking and he took it home. I didn't have him for 1 week. My friend had him for that long. My friend lives about 3-4 houses away from me. Then when i built the pond and when i didn't have that net on the turtle pond he got out of the pond and was on the law, he did that 2 times but each time the turtle tried to run away my dog would find him and start barking and roll the turtle around, so i ran out side to see my dog barking and trying to bite it. But when my dog bites it nothing happens to the turtle because hes built like a tank! Now i checked every little hole and put some rocks around the sliding door net thing i made so my dog or my turtle wont slide out of it. Now he will never get out.
coral keeper
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Here are a few more pics of my dog.
coral keeper
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Here is a link to my 10 gallon heavily planted tank if anyone wants to check it out.
https://www.saltwaterfish.com/vb/show...62#post2325262
https://www.saltwaterfish.com/vb/show...62#post2325262
coral keeper
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Originally Posted by azfishgal
Nice pond, I would like to have one in my backyard, but I think I would end up with boiled fish/turtles in the summer.
BTW, your dog is very cute!
Thanks! lol.
Nice pond, I would like to have one in my backyard, but I think I would end up with boiled fish/turtles in the summer.
BTW, your dog is very cute!
Thanks! lol.