I don't think she caught it. I think they bought it at a pet store, I'll have to ask her when she gets back from vacation. They'd had it for several years, though. I will get a new reptile bulb, the aquarium bulb is about burned out and we were going to get a new one today. I will pick one up at the local fish and exotics shop when I go today...the LFS didn't carry ghost shrimp, and I was going to get some and small goldfish for feeders.

I usually have to add tons of pH-decreaser along with the chlorine neutralizer when I replace aquarium water. Would limestone raise or lower the pH? Our water has really high pH here...I usually jsut test with the kit I bought at walmart for the aquarium, with the little glass tube, and the card that shows a color range, from bright blue at 7 to yellow below 6 i think. Its always WAY off the blue end. I've had a couple of smaller peices of the limestone (I guess thats what it is...the white rock with all the holes, I see it sold for fishtanks a lot. pretty easy to break) in my fish tank, and haven't seen any significant changes in the pH.

If she did catch the turtle wild (which I doubt, shes got 2 small kids, and isnt the type to go grubbing around for turtles anyway) I have no idea where she would have gotten it, and it was a couple of years ago at least. She was thinking about letting it loose in a creek or a waterhole at the golf course down the road from where she lives. (She's in san marcos, lots of rivers and creeks around here anyway) I really didn't want to set it out in the wild, since it was probably store-bought, and has lived in captivity so long anyway, and has relied on the safe, constant tank conditions. Hopefully if I do end up having to get rid of him, I can find someone with a good-size backyard pond who would like to keep him.

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