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Hypo/ light phase loggerhead musks
http://forums.kingsnake.com/view.php?id=2027704,2027704
Does anybody here breed or know who is currently breeding light phase, or hypo, or pastel loggerhead musk turtles?
Caging dime size stinpots and filtration
http://forums.kingsnake.com/view.php?id=2015603,2015603
I just purchased 2 Stinkpots that are the size of a dime.
Any recommendations for tank size and filtration?
I have small kritter keepers up to large, 2.5 gal aquarium, 5 gal, and 20 long (for later). Since I'm using a small tank how would I filtrate it?
Thanks for any ideas and yes I have googled...
Stink Pot Mass Killing--Please Respond!
http://forums.kingsnake.com/view.php?id=2008416,2008416
I need some advice ASAP! I was doing some field work with turtles this afternoon in several fish hatchery ponds. At one of the ponds, mostly dried up, there was a bunch of dead carp around the edges. More worrisome was there were a couple dozen dead/dying stinkpots (of all ages). Other turtles in...
Keeping and breeding AdansonĀ“s Mud turtl
http://forums.kingsnake.com/view.php?id=2006992,2006992
A few days ado I saw for the first time a pair of Adanson's mud turtles ( Pelusios adansonii ) at a local Reptilehouse. Also a house-bred young was on show.
Now I want to ask if anybody can provide some more information about this rarely kept and bred species. I know it's kept in Europe at Iguana Re...
New musk turtle...need help/advice.
http://forums.kingsnake.com/view.php?id=1948672,1948672
I recently acquired a baby common musk (or stinkpot) turtle from my herpetology lab at school and although I have a lizard at home, I'm not too familiar with turtle care. He's vary small (not more than an inch long and a couple months old) and currently I have him housed in a 5 gal tank. I have the ...
Scorpion Mud turtles
http://forums.kingsnake.com/view.php?id=1942111,1942111
Is anyone else on this forum keeping Scorpion Mud turtles? I'm currently keeping pairs of both the northern and southern forms.
Below is a comparison photo between the northern form (left)of Kinosternon scorpioides scorpioides and the southern form (right), which at one time was thought to be a diff...
Stinkpot photo
http://forums.kingsnake.com/view.php?id=1917501,1917501
came across this little turtle today and took a few photos. just thought i would share this photo with everyone. Image
Breeding Razorbacks
http://forums.kingsnake.com/view.php?id=1906798,1906798
Is there any tricks to breeding razorback musk turtles? What size does the female razorback have to be to be able to breed? please, any info. would be great. thanks!
Bob
2 Reeves
http://forums.kingsnake.com/view.php?id=1903776,1903776
I currently have 2 baby Reeves Turtles that I plan to put in a 150 gallon aquatic turtle tank, what kind of turtles can go with them? I was thinking stink pots?
Floating baby 3 stripe
http://forums.kingsnake.com/view.php?id=1895407,1895407
A teacher at the school I work at found a baby 3 stripe on campus stuck in a crack in the sidewalk. She came to me with it and asked if it would make a good classroom pet. i of course said it was much better than any slider she would get with the size requirements ect. Well she decided to keep i...
New 3-Striped Mud
http://forums.kingsnake.com/view.php?id=1893203,1893203
I wanted to share a couple pics of my new hatchling 3-striped. "She" is doing great, she even ate and did some swimming around the new tank.
Seeing 3-Stripes in my dreams
http://forums.kingsnake.com/view.php?id=1892451,1892451
Ever since I saw pictures of Jeff's 3-striped mud hatchlings on here, I've been hooked. I've been reading so much about them and talking to people and decided it's time to add another species to the fold.
I'm going to the NARBC this weekend, and a breeder is bringing me his last hatchling from las...
3 stripe mud laying eggs
http://forums.kingsnake.com/view.php?id=1876134,1876134
Finally caught my female 3 stripe laying eggs, usually she does this during the day while I am at work, but last saturday was her time, so I was able to get some pics of here laying. She laid 6 eggs, this was her 5th clutch this year.
-----Jeff Benfer
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Claudius angustatus
http://forums.kingsnake.com/view.php?id=1862838,1862838
Here are some pics, hope you enjoy them..
stinkpot aquarium size
http://forums.kingsnake.com/view.php?id=1855822,1855822
My son has two stinkpots which are about 1.5 years old and are somewhere in the range of 2.5 inches (not too good at measuring them). Anyway, they are in an aquarium which needs to be enlarged.
What is a general recommendation for a container and filtration which won't bankrupt me.
Thanks for any...
Stinkpot turtles
http://forums.kingsnake.com/view.php?id=1853389,1853389
My son has two stinkpot turtles which are about 3.5 inches in lenth. A friend has a smaller turtle I believe to be a Mississippi Mud. Can these turtles be housed together?
Also, are there any mud/musk turtle hybrids?
Eastern Mud Eggs: need quick advice!
http://forums.kingsnake.com/view.php?id=1851065,1851065
Sorry if this is wordy. It is my first post. If you don't wanna read much, in a nutshell, I have an eastern mud turtle who we thought was a boy...but she's not because she just laid egg(s)and we need some advice. Her habitat is outside but we'll have to move it inside. I've read that eastern mud tur...
longevity records
http://forums.kingsnake.com/view.php?id=1846244,1846244
Frank Slavens used to put out a book with longevity records of many species of R&A. I don't think he's doing it anymore but does anyone know who may be keeping longevity records? I have an eastern Mud turtle that I found as a hatchling on April 5, 1980. I don't think that's a record but he may...
3-stripe hatched!!!
http://forums.kingsnake.com/view.php?id=1840341,1840341
Tonight I was talking on the phone to my friend Lee about ball pythons, other snakes, fish and aquarium plants ect. ect. and when we started the conversation I noticed one of the eggs were cracked, ....half hour later I checked back and this little fellow was already out and about.
This is the smal...
Striped mud turtle prices?
http://forums.kingsnake.com/view.php?id=1829150,1829150
I've been looking for a striped mud turtle and most of the babies I found were $10-$20 each, and the two most expensive places I saw them they were $40 each. I live in Canada and I couldn't get any from these places though, because shipping would have been an issue. When I found a guy with some I wo...