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RE: Mud/Musk Spending time on Land

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Posted by: Jobst at Fri Oct 5 02:17:18 2007  [ Report Abuse ] [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Jobst ]  
   

No, I don't. I do keep single individuals of different species together, though. My loggerhead females fought really hard and the (small) male was so repressed that he wouldn't mate and in the end nearly lost his nose. He does mate well now that he's being kept on his own and only rarely introduced to one of the females! My baurii females fought when they were together, but the male is all right to live with one of them, on an alternating basis. He makes love, not war.
I keep them (1 minor, 1 baurii) in simple 32x16in glass aquaria with a 8in water level, some flower pots to hide, an egg-laying area (6x16x4inches lxwxh) filled with humid sand and with a small basking lamp, and good filtration. Food is dry cat food and duck pellets, and homemade turtle jelly (shrimps, fish, beef heart, some vegetables). No heating for these species (I'm in The Netherlands where winter room temps drop to about 65F), lighting is a fluorescent tube and the 25W bulb over the land area, 12-14 hours a day in summer, 6-8 in winter.
Mating takes place in autumn, primarily, and egg laying starts between Dec-Feb and lasts until July, with one clutch of 2-5 eggs roughly every 1.5 months. Incubation is easy. These 4 females gave me about 50 hatchings this year alone!

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