I have a community tank with some turtles in it, mostly maps, painteds, muds, etc. Some were 5" long, most were 3"-5" long, except for a baby mud.

Slow growing, fairly benign species.

None of them would bite you on purpose.

I was cruising the local ditches for snakes one day, and stumbled on a basking snapper, couldn't have been a month old.

Quarter size.

Figured I'd do the locals a favor and take it home.

Within 3 months it ate more than the rest of the turtles put together, grew larger than any of them, and I worried about them as snappers are an agressive species.

It was friendly for the most part unless you were in the way of it's food, and would even bask under the activeUV bulb with the rest of the turtles, something I thought a snapper would never do.

Anyway, I had to let it go, as it was growing WAAAAYYYYYYY too fast to keep over the winter.

Well, I gave it a head start.

This was just a common snapper, AFAIK, as I live in michigan.

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