Thanks agian everyone.

Mortal - great pages.. had lots of good info

Ian - I'm going to try putting some rocks in (I have to find some big ones cause I had small rocks in but he tried swallowing them) Then I'll prolly cover off areas, never thought to do that, great idea!

One last thing.. on the pages that were listed, there was a thing about common snappers vs alligator snappers.

http://www.chelydra.org/common_alligator_snapping_turtle.html

I've never known what kind of turtle he was. And I still don't. A lot of people have told me he's a common, but he doesn't look like any common I've ever seen. His shell is more like the alligator snappers, only a little smoother, but not as smooth as a commons. His head is also between the two. His nails are longer then both. And he has a feature I've never seen on a turtle, or any animal actually, he has what looks like a goatee kinda. I circled it on a picture. I don't know a lot about turtles so maybe it's normal. Any help with classification would be great. By the pictures I've seen of both alligator snappers and commons, he looks like a mix between the two.

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