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yay!!!any day that you add 2 new turtles to your collection is a great day,and today is such a day.not only did i get my hatchling red-cheek MUD(not musk...),i also snagged a hatchling chiapas musk(s.salvinii)as well.sorry,but i could'nt beat the price,ya know?thank you eric@empire of the turtle,they are great,lively little turtles!
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1.1 cb spotted turtles (parker(f),stinky(m))
0.0.1 cb baby red cheek mud (unnamed as of yet)
0.0.1 cb baby chiapas musk (chomper)
0.0.3 wc baby stinkpots (inky,blinky,&dot)
1.1 wc eastern mud turtles (george & jane)
1.0 cb eastern painted turtle (fred)
0.0.1 mississippi map (lil' dummy)
0.0.1 cb ally snapper (gamera)
1.0 cb albino corn (rusty)
0.0.1 wc halloween crab
0.1 irritating cat (sassy )
2.0 cb children (sidney,13 & kaelan,5)
0.1 wc wife (danae,age withheld due to fears for personal safety)

I told you. Eric is The Man! High quality too.
This is what his redcheeks grow to look like...

sweet!i can't wait,honestly.how old are they before the color starts coming in?
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1.1 cb spotted turtles (parker(f),stinky(m))
0.0.1 cb baby red cheek mud (unnamed as of yet)
0.0.1 cb baby chiapas musk (chomper)
0.0.3 wc baby stinkpots (inky,blinky,&dot)
1.1 wc eastern mud turtles (george & jane)
1.0 cb eastern painted turtle (fred)
0.0.1 mississippi map (lil' dummy)
0.0.1 cb ally snapper (gamera)
1.0 cb albino corn (rusty)
0.0.1 wc halloween crab
0.1 irritating cat (sassy )
2.0 cb children (sidney,13 & kaelan,5)
0.1 wc wife (danae,age withheld due to fears for personal safety)

They start to color up at about an inch and a half depending on their diet. I feed a lot of krill and shrimp as these naturally bring out red color. At two inches they look pretty good and by three inches they are really nice.
This one pictured is a two year old...also one of Eric's hatchlings.

yeah,i figured shrimp/krill had somethind to do with it.i mean,it works for flamingos..i use freeze-dried krill,and live grass shrimp that i catch locally,along with minnows(roughly chopped),tubifex blocks(some eat it,some don't),and reptimin sticks.i've noticed that shrimp perks up the red-eared sliders colors,too.oh,eric said that he'd have some hatchling scorpion muds next year,and i made sure that i'm on that list,too.
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1.1 cb spotted turtles (parker(f),stinky(m))
0.0.1 cb baby red cheek mud (unnamed as of yet)
0.0.1 cb baby chiapas musk (chomper)
0.0.3 wc baby stinkpots (inky,blinky,&dot)
1.1 wc eastern mud turtles (george & jane)
1.0 cb eastern painted turtle (fred)
0.0.1 mississippi map (lil' dummy)
0.0.1 cb ally snapper (gamera)
1.0 cb albino corn (rusty)
0.0.1 wc halloween crab
0.1 irritating cat (sassy )
2.0 cb children (sidney,13 & kaelan,5)
0.1 wc wife (danae,age withheld due to fears for personal safety)

My turtles mostly don't care for the freeze dried tubifex worms. Frozen blood worms though are eagerly taken by hatchlings. But you should feed things like that in a separate container as they foul the water badly. So does frozen brine shrimp and frozen krill.

Wow those are some good looking turtles. Good luck with them.
Jeff
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Jeff Benfer
You'll get your regius's to the wall, man!
1.0 pastel Python regius
0.1 mojave Python regius
0.1 normal Python regius
0.2 Terrapene carolina thriunguis
2.3 Terrapene carolina carolina
4.1 Kinosternon baurii
1.1 Malaclemys terrapin terrapin
2.1 Ambystoma tigrinum
0.2 Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis
1.0 anerythristic Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis
1.1 Iowa snow Thamnophis radix
1.1 heterozygous for amelanistic,carmel, and stripe Pantherophis guttatus
0.1 anerythristic motley Pantherophis guttatus

those are awesome... how big do these guys get?
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Shawn