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Adopted a turtle
Couple weeks ago a friend of my daughter asked if I'd take the red-ear
slider they got from someone else. I have a 15x25 pond averaging around 20" deep, around 1,350 US gallons.. They were keeping this 7" turtle in a 10-gallon glass aquarium, I felt sorry for it and said "yes". The little booger seems happy enough, sunning on the rocks and swimming around all over the place, but the first thing he did was snip off all the leaves of a new lily I'd put in the day before. Today I took the lily out and put it in the quarantine barrel pond. Looks like he's taking bites out of several of the pickerel rush leaves too, but I can tolerate that. Oddly, he's left the other lily alone. I have 7 large goldfish, 2 smallish koi, and about 20 small goldfish that were born this spring. If the turtle is carnivorous I wish he'd take some of the little goldfish. Maybe if I drop some tartar sauce in the pond? Mike in Sharpsburg, GA Mike Patterson Please remove the spamtrap to email me. "I always wanted to be somebody...I should have been more specific..." - Lily Tomlin |
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