my turtle will be 7 yrs old around now, or i can go by purchase date of may 2000. he came to the store in march of 2000 a little smaller then a 50 cent piece. so he could have been a couple months old already. i never had any problems with him. i think he got tapeworms from goldfish that i had mainly been feeding him when he made the jump up from rosie reds. i treated that and stopped feeding him goldfish and he never had any probs sense. when i actually bought him his very tip of the tail had been nipped by another similar size ally. after a few days at home it looked like it was getting white (fungus or something) so i treated him with some fish med directly on the tail and it preventing it from spreading and eventually just dried the tip up and it fell off. you can see by the pics i have on here that it wasnt much. if you are houseing yours together, you might want to seperate them. also, when he was about 3 i put him in a crate to clean out his tank. well i have bene doing that for 3 yrs but i guess he was getting to large for the crate because he was able to snap at it (was made of hard plastic) and he broke the tip off from his upper jaw/beak. thats grown back fine too. those have been the only medical probs i ever had with him. when he was small he ate a lot of fish, small rodents, worms, crickets, mealworms, and reptomin. as he got larger he ate the same things just larger sizes. also added trout chow. nto he mainly eats fish and thawed out rodents. although recently i have been getting him frog legs from the seafood place which he loves. also eats crayfish.

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