Carl Beyer wrote:

I have a small 400 gallon pond, and saw a red eared slider (I think) -
just a standard water turtle - and was wondering how it would fair in my
pond. They had theres with a floating log that it could get up on.

How would this do with my koi and larger goldfish?

We have a RES that we rescued from someone's swimming pool. Our pond is in
the 4-5k gallons range. He won't bug the fish. I've read they are
carnivorous when young and eat more greens as they age, so perhaps mine is
just old, but I've watched a lot and he a) doesn't seem interested and b) is
way too slow.

They need some way to get out of the water and sun themselves. I have no
fence around my pond and am hoping he doesn't wonder off. My yard is fenced,
but we live on a canyon so we do have critters that might consider him a
meal if he was out.

They do generate a disproportionate amount of crap - I count mine as 10 4"
goldfish.

I feed him turtle food which he seems to like, and occasionally give him
some raw shrimp, chick or steak.

They are very interesting to watch, once they get used to you, in fact I'm
trying to teach mine to allow me to feed him from my hand. I already have
him swimming up to me at dinner time!

Check out these guys:

http://www.turtlehomes.org/usa/pondindex.shtml


Joe
San Diego



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