DonnaM

I'd love to know of one in CHCH too! Be great to get some taddies again :bounce:

Really sad news, and an obvious loss to the aquarium world. Please pass on my condolences to the family. Each and every life is so precious, and its so sad to know he had lost sight of how precious and valuable he was. May he be at peace.

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Agreed Mincie, and make sure its shelterd and in the sun! Have you got a REALLY good filter in the tank? A few food ideas for you..... Feed her variety. Chopped up ox/chicken or lamb heart (NO fat), any turtle food from pet shop you can get her to eat, insects, worms, snails, bits of courgette, banana, pumpkin, peas, frilly lettuce, water lilly pads and other water plants, boiled eggs and egg shells, purina 1 cat biscuits, dried fish (Purranas sold as cat food in supermarket), raw fish, hot house turtle food, blood worms, float a cuttle fish/bone (Sold as bird food at supermarket) in the water.... When introducing new food you can leave her about 4 days with no food and then feed her the new food when she's really hungry. Good luck!

Hi and welcome to NZ. How long will you be here?

Yes thats snow in the first picture. Cold!!! At that time turtles were all in my house or enclosure you can see at back of picture. I'd got too many new 'rescue' ones just before winter (12), so hadn't hibernated them. Maybe this yr I'll try hibernating and they can sleep beneath the snow :roll:

Thanks Mincie, yes that plastic mesh has been used for all sorts over the years. I had a nice gentle sloped area on other side of pond...and turtles decided they prefered the narrow area by the fence :roll: .....so out came the mesh again

Wonderful! Congrats on the new aditions to the family

Iszac are there 4 lizards in the 3rd pic? Very nic pics people.

In a couple of ponds at the moment...lovely day today...have popped the others out in the ponds today as well....over winter I had 28 turtles in the house...don't ask about the power bills.... Also the info I got about chickens was from Mark Feldman from the herp. society.

In the wild they could eat fish, insects, dead things in the water, their own eggs, babies....etc.

I know that NZ chicken eggs (and shells), carry salmonella and campylobacter so they need to be cooked before feeding to turtles. Sometimes I feed whole boiled eggs, usually just the boiled shells. I wouldn't risk feeding raw chicken meat to my turtles, tho would be great to be able to throw in a chicken carcass and let them go for it... Perhaps other countries don't have chickens that carry those 2 diseases. But thats just my opinion.

Hi K1tt3n and welcome to the forum. I hope you enjoy it You have an unusual 'name'. (I hope I spelt it right.) :lol:

Very Nice!!! :bounce:

Cool T.shirt design....Wheres the turtles?? I'll definately be in to order one when they're ready.

Sooo cute! Congratulations on the new arrivals!

Welcome TT. Hope you enjoy the forum.

Amazing! So beautiful. So where are they from peterj???

Walk the dog or sit in the garden watching the turtles. But then eating chocolates good too!!

Awesome to hear its going so well!!! :bounce: Wish I could be there! Me and the turtles are thinking of you all ....I wonder if cambell live will ever do a follow-up to help keep the park in the media?

umm nope. No access, but I do log on as soon as I get home.....most days or nights...

mmm :-? if its the Moorhouse one, I was told by the 'in charge' type person that they were 11 weeks old... which seemed reasonable given their size etc....but I'm no expert!

Hope the day is all you expect and much, much more! Enjoy!!! :bounce: Â

Name: Donna Age: 47 Occupation: Community based Mental Health Nurse. LOVE my job and the NGO I work for! Colour: Blue Music: Varied/ anything not too deafening Interests: Turtles, frogs, BBQ's, gardening, carnivorous plants, running a kids singing, dance and drama group, creative things like putting on a display in a Christmas grotto that had 20,000 visiters last year. (Already working on this years display!) Other: Had tropical fish but the turtles ate them. Had goldfish in a pond for years but neighbours cat ate them...but like looking at other peoples fish tanks! Never seen a forum till this one...not very pc literate!