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Hi there!I hope don't bore you with my qst!the last one is pretty funny..two times I noticed my baby snappy make a kind of yawn in the water!!!is'it possible?I'm sure she doesn't get any food...just yawn or..drink?lol..

Hello,
First of all, I don't recall you saying... Do you own an alligator snapper, or a common snapper?

If an alligator snapper, when your lil ones opening his mouth check for a wiggling tongue? See it... then your lil guys attempting to catch those pesky fish in his tank,lol.

If its a common snapper, you may just be dealing with a little guy who is attempting to eat you...lol, no joke. My little guys when upon seeing me immediatly run to the side of there tank, under water. And if I put my finger near there tank, they attempt to snap me....

Anywho, neither of these reasons may be what your snappers doing...

Have a good day,
Steven

It may be "smelling" the water. They will open and close their mouth slightly to pass water over their olfactory organs. Mine does it when I sneak food in the water without him seeing it. He does while he's tracking it down.
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when snapping turtles eat they "suck" their food in, so after their done feeding they expel the water that was sucked in with their food. something i find interesting is that my snapping turtle does it too, but mine does it out of water, but he isn't expelling water when he does it out of water, i think hes just trying to make himself look larger then he is.