DonnaM

The turtles eat kumara, courgette, cucumber etc and the plecos eat all the leftovers. Tho I do sometimes stick a t.spoon handle thru a slice of cucumber or courgette to hold it on the bottom to make it easier for the plecs to eat as well.

So who will be around this WE when Stella is in town? Any thoughts on spotlighting on Sat and the aquarium on Sunday? I know Bdspider is away and Humvee is moving house! What are others up to? Still building tanks maybe?? :lol:

Thanks Stella. Good to share these things Adrienne that first link was interesting in that it had a turtle doing the mating dance with the pleco. Exactly as this turtle was doing... I wonder how much impact the turtle biting/picking at the sores had on its condition before I even got them? It was a lovely looking pleco. As the mouth got worse, the pleco one day started to look very slugggish and reasonably unresponsive to anything.

He was alone with the 2 yr turtle. Turtle seems fine...tho he began to try and bite at the tumour so I quickly seperated them. Yes Stella, very weird! Jennifer sent photos to people who may know if anything could be done, but it wasnt possible or realistic to save him.

(Sorry about all the posts, but I cant seem to post more then one photo at a time without losing everything when I go to copy another photo! :roll: )

This guy arrived at my place with a turtle needing to be rehomed. The previous owners thought it had some food stuck in its mouth and didnt realise it was so abnormal. The growth appeared to increase in size during the weeks it was here, but didnt stop the pleco from being able to eat. (I didnt see it eat, but it kept pooing plenty!)

Yummy pizza! Nice to catch up with people and meet the new ones. I even thought the axylotyl babies were quite cute ...and I'm not usually a big fan of them.... I cant make any 'party' next WE but hopefully we can work something out for the following WE when Stella is in CHCH Have fun if you do get together next week

Not to mention the last WE of October as well Jen :lol: :lol: So where does 'spotlighting' happen around CHCH? .. for the WE that Stella is around? I need a couple of BIG bits of well weathered driftwood to put in the snakenecks pond, so if we find some while out spotlighting..... that would be a bonus! :bounce:

:bounce: Party party..... sure we can cope! :bounce:

Well its pretty certain the 2 existing volcanos are totally blown to pieces, filled up with sea water and wont rise again But a new one on the canterbury plains ?? ..... who knows 8)

Yep, planning to go to bands if fine. Animates Moorhouse wants me to put in a turtle display for the day then too. Info and education on their care etc... so will work around that and the bands hopefully

Looks great!!! :bounce: One very happy looking Beardy.

No worries, I just rolled my eyes and said... "Yeah right"... will take alot more then that to get me to move to Auckland :lol: :lol: :lol:

Hospital on emergency power, and emergency mode, men in orange coats doing inspections, town is being evacuated, several people have things broken/damage, dont know how others are. Quite alot of power out around town

Yep, pretty big one. Lots of tank splashing, but I still got power. Amelias tank has yet again got water on the wrong side of the partitian :roll: I was outside....pretty scary Milo just ran into the back-yard... I ran inside and started wiping the minor water spills... all basking areas are now soaking wet and all turtles in the water..... I've really had enough now..

I'd suggest you contact 'insideoceans' when you get down here for a tank Or get one ordered for when you arrive. They would be OK in the 2ft very short term if you are moving soon. Just maximise water volume and keep up your weekly water changes... (total changes )... and use a good external filter. Snake necks dont tend to climb out and bask as readily as the RES. They are much better with a natural piece of wood that they can climb up onto and get out of water when they feel safe etc. They are better with the UVB REPTILE light over the basking and water area as tend to 'float' on water surface and can absorb UVB that way. The UVB only penetrates a small amount (cant remember how much off hand) into water in a tank, but they have shell out of water when floating, so will get benefit from light on water. Quite different to the RES who need to get out of water and be completely dry. Dont put stones in your tank...more water volume and much easier to clean... and turtles will eat stones and can die. Be careful with a completely enclosed lid as condensation can cause respiratory and shell rot issues. Also the snakenecks need a different diet to the RES. Basically a fish/ live foods diet. Worms, snails, insects, Hot House turtle food, feeder fish etc. (Tho my little 'Minnie' -avatar photo-was munching on the end of a piece of kumara skin last night... very cute...but not usual :lol: )

Definately felt larger than a 4.6. It must be because of where it was centred. I certainly had plenty of water sloshing too, but not out of the tanks this time

I totally agree! Fabulous photos!

The fireman... one who didnt get burnt... reminded us to get the half cooked chicken off the BBQ, (We were all talking turtle at the time), so into the fry pan for last bit of cooking. Still had yummy BBQ flavour. Lovely food and sun and relaxing...with faint smell of something burnt in the distance :lol:

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Another 5.0 earthquake... That makes 4 things MarkLB. Does that mean we start the counting again? :lol: :roll: