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Guppies used as turtle food! | 8 comments (8 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

I recently gave a turtle to my neighbor (none / 0) (#7)
by angelhologram on Thu Dec 08, 2005 at 06:18:54 AM PST

Shen also has some small ponds in her yard and was having a problem with way too many goldfish. This is the same neighbor that gave me the 60gal tank after I told her that it was too small for her nine 7 inch fish. Not long after she put them in the pond they started breeding like crazy and apparently with all the vegetation and hiding spots she has in there the mortality rate was very low. She enjoys fish but is far from being a fish head. I personally would not feed my fish to a turtle but it has helped with her problem, and mine too! You see I had found this particular turtle outside in MY POND WITH MY FISH!! The neighborhood next to ours is rather new and there was a small lake on it. Once development started we began to see all sorts of small critters in our yards from snakes to turtles to armadillos to possums. The turtle, being a yellowbelly slider, had obviously come from a water source and that was the closest one....though it was still a ways away. I considered keeping it and would have fed it floating pellets with some crickets now and then, but I didn't want a turtle around my kids. Something people need to keep in mind with pet turtles is that you must wash your hands after you touch them as they carry salmonella and other disease. I don't mean to sound like I'm downing them, I just didn't trust my 2 kids to do that every time so I thought it would be best to find him (her?) another home. The neoghbor is happy, the turtle is happy, and I'm sure my fish outside are happy.
*BEFORE you buy fish make sure you understand what "Cycling" a tank means <- quoted from miskaral* ~Trying to make a difference one fish at a time~
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Part, though not all, of that salmonella (none / 0) (#8)
by unclescott on Fri Dec 09, 2005 at 11:08:11 AM PST

bacterial thing, is because of the dirty water and cramped quarters in which turtles, maybe more in the past than now, are kept. With turtles, as with fish, if it smells bad, it IS unhealthy.

Obviously a good point about kids. I was intrigued by a John Steinbeck essay on Americans where he observed the tendency of kids to put their hands in their mouth. He scrounged up the statistic that on the average we have consumed three bushels of dirt before the reached the age of 5. ;)

ATB!
unc

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Guppies used as turtle food! | 8 comments (8 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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