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Pictures of my puppies, I call them puppies because they act like puppies constantly begging for attention(or food) They male is named PT short for People Turtle because he loves people (my wife came up with that name not me), the female is named Gertrude and I named her (don't ask me where I came up with that because I don't know).
The second picture is a good example for anyone wanting to know how to sex them the female is on the left the male is on the right, very obvious difference in the tail, also the female has a much deeper shell and fatter head.
They are currently housed in a 75gal with a homemade upper deck with basking platform and basking heat lamp as well as a homeade floueresent fixture with a 4ft 2.0 UVB reptisun bulb.
This winter I plan to build a similar set-up with a 180 gal tank with a built off one the sides a large tub filled with sand that they can bask on and lay eggs, next summer they will go out in my outdoor garden pond, after I build a cinder block wall around the pond with electric wire fence to keep any preditors out, but they will still over winter inside in the aquarium.

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Jeff Benfer

1.0 pastel Python regius
1.1 mojave Python regius
0.1 normal Python regius
1.3 Terrapene carolina thriunguis
2.3 Terrapene carolina carolina
4.1 Kinosternon baurii
1.1 Malaclemys terrapin terrapin
2.2 double het albino and anerythristicThamnophis sirtalis parietalis
1.0 anerythristic Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis
2.2 Iowa snow Thamnophis radix
0.2 het Christmas albino Thamnophis radix
1.1 double het cherry erythristic, albino Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis
1.1 melanistic Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis
1.1 triple heterozygous for amelanistic,carmel, and stripe Pantherophis guttatus
0.1 anerythristic motley Pantherophis guttatus
0.1 Okeetee Pantherophis guttatus

Beautiful diamondbacks, Jeff. I like your choice of companion fish for their tank too. Also, your pond looks like it did its thing nicely this summer. The lily pads look nice and lush.

Thanks Curtis, that Electric Blue Jack Demsey male and the big red tailed shark are all I have left to show from 20yrs of fish breeding, but they are two of my all time favorites so I will have them till they die. The diamondbacks have grown up with them, both fish were that same size when the diamonds were little hatchlings, so they don't see them as food, but it's funny the male (PT) chases the electric blue around the rock then the female (Gertrude) chases PT and the 3 of them go round and round and round, but not biting just play.
Ya know this is the 3rd season for that small pond and the plants are finally really filling in this year, and my 2 Shubunkin goldfish which we didn't know untill this spring that they are male and female untill they had 4 babies, 3 calicos that look just like the parents and one solid black one, must be recessive. So I have really enjoyed that pond this year, next year I am putting in a really big pond, they are fun, and the sound of thrickling water, I highly recommend it.
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Jeff Benfer

1.0 pastel Python regius
1.1 mojave Python regius
0.1 normal Python regius
1.3 Terrapene carolina thriunguis
2.3 Terrapene carolina carolina
4.1 Kinosternon baurii
1.1 Malaclemys terrapin terrapin
2.2 double het albino and anerythristicThamnophis sirtalis parietalis
1.0 anerythristic Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis
2.2 Iowa snow Thamnophis radix
0.2 het Christmas albino Thamnophis radix
1.1 double het cherry erythristic, albino Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis
1.1 melanistic Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis
1.1 triple heterozygous for amelanistic,carmel, and stripe Pantherophis guttatus
0.1 anerythristic motley Pantherophis guttatus
0.1 Okeetee Pantherophis guttatus

Ponds are great. At some point I'd like to put one in and keep it as simple as possible (too many hobbies as it is). For now, I'm working on putting in a deck and will build in a 55 gallon stock tank to turn into a pond for my spotted turtle. I'm looking forward to that, but since it probably won't be until late August till the deck's done, I'm considering waiting to move the spotted outside until next spring, just so she can get a full year under her belt before she hibernates for the first time. I don't think it would be wise to take her from her constant 72 degree tank into 100 degree-plus weather.