Snapping Turtle Tank Stinks!

[Vampire]

Standard Snapper, very friendly. Feeding large krill or shrimp and Nutrafin.

 

[Hedorah99]

To keep the tanks "clean" at work, it required 3x's the minimum amount of filtration (i.e. filtration for 450 gallons of water in a 150 gallon system) and a weekly vacuuming and 33% water change. we also added bacteria used to keep ponds from stinking. They didn't smell but man they were a lot of maintenance.

 

[hardlucktattoo]

if you are comfortable with it try thr free roam and plastic pool setup i can send you some pics for reference if you like

 

[Vampire]

That would be great....I need to see it.

 

[mindlessvw]

Ya that does sound a bit small...my yellow belly is abut the size of an open hand and he is in a 75 gallon...

 

[hardlucktattoo]

here are two pics one in the dry pool not a business card that is a 4x6 sheet of paper! and the second she is taking a dip in the pond behind my house she is unfortunatly outgrowing my house and will not stay in the pond she keeps coming up to the door at night wanting to come in like a dog but she is getting too big and is going to be donated to the zoo at the end of the summer

 

[Mushroom Spore]

she is getting too big and is going to be donated to the zoo at the end of the summer

Have you cleared this with the zoo? Contrary to popular belief, most of them aren't interested in the hundreds of exotic pets people try to give them every year.

 

[eelnoob]

Wow beautiful snapper.



Like everyone already said the tank is just too small. I used to have one of those corner tank, it's only cool looking because it has the height but not much width or length to it.

 

[hardlucktattoo]

Have you cleared this with the zoo? Contrary to popular belief, most of them aren't interested in the hundreds of exotic pets people try to give them every year.

Yea its already been cleared with them I have a friend the works there so I know it will be taken care of plus I promised I promised I would do a few shows/demonstrations with it I volunteer there about 15 hours a month I know its not a lot But it helps me stay busy

 

[Mushroom Spore]

Okay cool. A zoo is generally a GREAT life for an animal, but most of the time they just can't handle a bunch of people's exotic pets, so I figured I should check just in case. I've seen a lot of people planning to buy exotics and just assume they can dump their Burmese python on the local zoo when it gets "too big"...and then have a rude awakening, which doesn't do the poor animals any good. But anyway, this is an entirely different situation, and I'd love to see pics of their setup when the transfer happens. I've seen some gorgeous natural "pond" giant tanks for snappers, hopefully they'll go all out.

And double good show for volunteering! Even a few hours is better than no help at all. :clap:

 

[hardlucktattoo]

Okay cool. A zoo is generally a GREAT life for an animal, but most of the time they just can't handle a bunch of people's exotic pets, so I figured I should check just in case. I've seen a lot of people planning to buy exotics and just assume they can dump their Burmese python on the local zoo when it gets "too big"...and then have a rude awakening, which doesn't do the poor animals any good. But anyway, this is an entirely different situation, and I'd love to see pics of their setup when the transfer happens. I've seen some gorgeous natural "pond" giant tanks for snappers, hopefully they'll go all out.

And double good show for volunteering! Even a few hours is better than no help at all. :clap:

Its a shame Ive had her so long she so used to staying in th house I tried seeing if she would just stay in the pond behind my house but like i said earlier she just wants to come in she actually clawed a hole under the door to get in that was when i Realized she had to go to a new home

 

[Hedorah99]

Okay cool. A zoo is generally a GREAT life for an animal, but most of the time they just can't handle a bunch of people's exotic pets, so I figured I should check just in case. I've seen a lot of people planning to buy exotics and just assume they can dump their Burmese python on the local zoo when it gets "too big"...and then have a rude awakening, which doesn't do the poor animals any good. But anyway, this is an entirely different situation, and I'd love to see pics of their setup when the transfer happens. I've seen some gorgeous natural "pond" giant tanks for snappers, hopefully they'll go all out.

And double good show for volunteering! Even a few hours is better than no help at all. :clap:

we generally turn away 95% of the animals being "donated". if we didn't, we would have nothing but iguanas, ball pythons, burmese pythons, and boa constrictors.