Re: NANFA-- Garbage Disposal Turtles

Jeffrey Fullerton (tcmajorr_at_westol.com)
Sat, 20 Sep 2003 10:24:37 -0400

> Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 17:02:39 -0500
> From: John Bongiovanni
> Subject: Re: NANFA-- Garbage Disposal Turtles & Other Herps
>
> I had a Slider turtle (I think, it had webbed rear feet and long claws on the front. It looked superficially like a red-ear without the red). I raised it for 6 years from a pup until it ran away. Boy I miss that turtle. :-( It sure was excited to see me enter a room!
>
>
> John
>
Any species of aquatic turtle that eats fish will work. The virtue of
Kinosternids is that they are small and probably the easiest to
accomodate in captivity.

Jeff
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