My lovely turtle <3

[Sylph]

I am not sure about wild ones, but they are kept for their fur at large indoors farms :frown:



They are a size of a small rabbit, skinny with a lot of soft fur (that tends to fly out of the cage... )

I know .

But omgosh that one is so cute, I want to hold it and kiss it and let it sit on my shoulder like a parrot .

I wish we had some :p .

[Nick9]

Yeah, I know Unfortunately they don't like to be caressed. But they could sit on your lap or hand, maybe even shoulder. Their feet are cold though :biggrin:
I have two, one brown, one black. They LOVE to cuddle in sleep.

one more from the net, not mine:

[Sylph]

Yeah, I know Unfortunately they don't like to be caressed. But they could sit on your lap or hand, maybe even shoulder. Their feet are cold though :biggrin:
I have two, one brown, one black. They LOVE to cuddle in sleep.

one more from the net, not mine:

I just melted . You should take pics of them and then make a Chinchilla thread . Those are so adorable :o like squirrels :p .

[Sylph]

Who wants to see pics of Sora an Inch ago?

She's 8 3/4inches now, but these pics are from when she was 8inches (shell length).

These were taken last year, after graduation I believe :p (June)
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She used to live outside, cause we didn't have a table strong enough to support her tank, so we put her right next to the door .

I had just bought that dock for her :p .


Somebody's a lazy bum :p


This is when her shell was at it's healthiest


Such a ham :p . She loves being held in her mommy's hand (no matter how much she stretchs it )


Watch me run :p .


"Let's see how I can irritate mommy now :p "


Later that day, we were able to move her inside, cause my grandmother's husband got a table for her . Her tank is bowed, so it looks small :p .


This is her, practicing her mating dance, called Fluttering with me . I was like, "you flap those arms!" .


Did anybody ever tell you turtles can laugh?


Teasing her with a piece of food


Isn't she just my big baby?


Grr, that little rascal figured out how to climb on the step .


See what I mean Nick, about their intelligence? :p


*1 This picture nearly won in our annual pet competition , but she lost to twin rabbit babies . (I have no clue why it's blurry now. It was clear before :mad: )


And her eating a piece of lettuce

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*1 - Original picture, without editing


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Wow, I didn't realize I had so many pics of Sora . But she honestly loves the camera :p . She's a Diva like her mommy .

She got sick again soon after these pics (she had a relapse) and It last from about October(my birthday actually) to around christmas last year . She's just getting rid of the remains of her old sick shell now.

I know why she get's sick easy, cause she needs direct sunlight atleast for 2hours everyday, cause otherwise her shell will deteriate. The light I have is strong, but not strong enough for her everyday, so I take her out now, and she get's atleast 2hrs of sunlight everyday .

(These pics were taken on my Blackberry, so excuse the quality :p . I should've used my iPod, but I wasn't thinking :p .)

(Ps. When and if my father comes back for the summer, I'm going to demand he give me his not-in-use 80gallon tank for Sora, cause She's very quickly getting too large for this one :p . I'll make this one into a Terrarium for Tree Frogs , cause my other little 5gallon tank is too small for them )

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[Nick9]

Hi Odi, nice pics! How often do you need to change water in her tank?

I spent today in a zoo LOL. I am surprised how many different turtles they actually keep. I was thinking about Sora all the time

[Sylph]

Hi Odi, nice pics! How often do you need to change water in her tank?

I spent today in a zoo LOL. I am surprised how many different turtles they actually keep. I was thinking about Sora all the time

Hi Nick . Omg! lol, I used to have to change it about twice every week, but now I have a more powerful filter (Had a 45EX, now a 70EX :p ), so maybe once or twice every month.

And it's not like it's the whole tank either, just roughly 20-25% of it. Only to remove built up nitrates and what not, since I don't have live plants in there. They can become poisonous if in a very high quantity, but usually that takes very long(sometimes a year), unless you don't have a filter, then it can take like a month to build up and kill off anything in there.

I'm so jealous of you :p . we don't have many types of pond turtle, only 1 native species & 1 introduced. Trachemys Scripta Elegans (Red Eared Slider Turtle) & The Terrapin species, known as the DiamondBack Terrapin(our native one). The Diamondback Terrapin was hunted and killed for it's meat a long time ago when we were first being colonized, so now they're slowly making a come back.

Although the Red Ear Sliders make it difficult, as they are bullies and very detrimental to the eco-system, so Diamondbacks are usually bullied out of their eco-system and die of starvation or stress. There's now a reserve for them so that they can flourish and not be disturbed by the Red Ear Slider. Eventually they can be re-introduced back into the wild, because their numbers are increasing, but before they were being hunted by humans and bullied by Red Ear Sliders and killed on the roads when fleeing them.

Sora and I blush . Sora likes to be center of attention :p .

[Nick9]

I must google those turtles of yours...

I took some pictures for Sora to see But one of them is so scarry that I am sure even Sora, the brave and cheeky will run away at her biggest speed

[Rawr]

How did you come up with the names for your turtles?

I use to love turtles, tortoises, terrapins as a child although I was never had one. Perhaps when I get my own place I'll get one or two. I'll call one squirtle :3 Although charmander was always my choice of pokemon so maybe I should get a salamander as well.

Anyhow, some good photo of your turtles, they look awesome :3

[Sylph]

I must google those turtles of yours...

I took some pictures for Sora to see But one of them is so scarry that I am sure even Sora, the brave and cheeky will run away at her biggest speed

:p . She probably would run away. She's all shell but no bite :p .

How did you come up with the names for your turtles?

I use to love turtles, tortoises, terrapins as a child although I was never had one. Perhaps when I get my own place I'll get one or two. I'll call one squirtle :3 Although charmander was always my choice of pokemon so maybe I should get a salamander as well.

Anyhow, some good photo of your turtles, they look awesome :3

:o , I only have one :p . But she acts like 10 of them

Her Name, Sora, orginates from the Japanese word for 'Sky' and her last name being Aoi, meaning 'Blue' . So in english her name is Sky Blue, but I just call her Sora. Plus, when I got her, I wasn't sure of her sex, so Sora being an unisex name, is what I went with :p .

I encourage people to get turtles, because like fish, they can be great stress relievers as well as lovable companions. There's a lady who managed to "tame" her two turtles and now they eat from her hand and sleep on her. Even Sora likes to sit on my lap and follow me around the house :p .

(By the way, alot of people name their turtles Squirtle or Wartortle lol :p . Also, you can't mix Salamanders/Newts/Frogs/Caecillians with turtles, as their body chemicals and predatory habits do not coincide with one another , so seperate tanks ).