Caught this RES today while fishing in Linn County, Kansas. I have never seen them with orange on the bottom. Is this strange or just a natural color phase? Visions of interbreeding painted turtles and RES crossed my mind. We saw painted turtles, RES, and common snapping turtles in the pond.
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Strange colored RES
iturnrocks
May 07, 2005 12:47 AM
Replies (4)
matt43
May 07, 2005 01:42 AM
Weirdness! But pretty cool looking. You folks got any nuclear plants by that fishing hole? :-P
iturnrocks
May 07, 2005 02:28 AM
>>Weirdness! But pretty cool looking. You folks got any nuclear plants by that fishing hole? :-P
Nope
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Katrina
May 07, 2005 10:22 PM
Someone on turtleforum.com recently posted pictures of painted turtles that had the rust color as well, and it seems that the water just had a lot of minerals in it. The older turtles had more of the rust color than the young ones.
Katrina
iturnrocks
May 11, 2005 11:35 AM
Cancel this post. The orange is something topical, it comes off.
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