I am introducing our 2 new family members, Del boy and Rodney, 2 Florida Cooter Turtle babies. We named them after our favourite comedy actors from Only Fools and Horses. Here is our Del Boy and Rodney.
We already have 3 Musk turtles, we wanted a couple of babies that we could hand rear. Musk Turtles stay pretty small where as our new turtles can grow to around 13 inches, growing a couple of inches a year depending on the size of the tank they are living in. We will move them over to a larger tank when they require need it. They can live a long life around 40 years, me and hubby won't be around then so have told our daughter that she will have to take care of them for us. Don't think she was very impressed.
We bought our new turtle a heat lamp, this is so they can lie on there turtle ramp and bask in the warmth, this helps whilst there circadian rhythms, they can live without a great lamp for a long time but this will reduce there life span the lamp helps them stay healthy. Our new friend seemed to settle pretty quickly, they found the ramp easy to use but if we got to close they would scare and jump back in to the water, now we can sit abs watch them basking along as we don't make sudden movements they will sit for longer. Here's both of the turtles basking, I hope that's all they are doing.
I can watch these for ages, there such fun to watch. We are going to let them settle in for a couple of days before we start letting them sit on our hands. With them being this small there bites shouldn't be very bad, hopefully they get used to us. Hubby was cleaning the musk turtles shell with a soft toothbrush, I don't think they had experienced that before, one quickly turned there head biting hubby's thumb, he jumped as want expecting it to hurt, he won't be so careless next time.
Thank you for visiting. ππ
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