K. cruentatum

[juli11]

Just bought a group of these cool animals. I already have 2 young animals but I had the chance to get 1,2 adult. This was 2 weeks ago and now
And here some pictures of them. Not all animals I'll make more!


(The female enclosure) the male and the two baby's are together in an enclosure with my P.

The guy kept them in unclean water so you can't see their shell colour

 

[cdmay]

Cruentatum are my favorite mud turtle....so let's see more photos!
Nice going on those eggs too, hope they hatch.

 

[juli11]

Sure in the evening! Yesterday I put the male to the females and he directly breed with both real breed machines

 

[juli11]

Here some pictures of the juveniles. They weren't really amused about the photos

 

[juli11]

Here is one breeding female. She's about 20 years old!

 

[cdmay]

Looks like your juveniles are going to be pretty adults. As they get older they tend to calm down and stop trying to bite everything.
I've kept a lot of aquatic turtles and can honestly say that for small size, big personality, pleasing color and ease of care red-cheek mud turtles are hard to beat.

 

[juli11]

Looks like your juveniles are going to be pretty adults. As they get older they tend to calm down and stop trying to bite everything.
I've kept a lot of aquatic turtles and can honestly say that for small size, big personality, pleasing color and ease of care red-cheek mud turtles are hard to beat.

Yes they look good. Really red. And the adults are all from different bloodlines. The juveniles are from a different then the adults too but they're siblings. And yes beautiful personalities. I'll continue the post in this thread maybe we'll see some more eggs/hatchlings.

 

[Anyfoot]

I've just shown Dawn these photos, first words were "we are not having any".
She can read me like a book.

They look gorgeous. What is there natural habitat like, Are they fresh water turtles?

 

[juli11]

I've just shown Dawn these photos, first words were "we are not having any".
She can read me like a book.

They look gorgeous. What is there natural habitat like, Are they fresh water turtles?

They live in middle America ( Nicaragua, Guatemala etc). They don't make a hibernation and they're fresh water turtles.

 

[Gillian M]

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Here some pictures of the juveniles. They weren't really amused about the photos

Very nice. Thanks for sharing.

By the way, what do they eat?

 

[juli11]

Everything without fruits and plants. I feed them fish,worms, grammarus etc. very easy eater and hungry all the time

 

[juli11]

Found some new eggs today. Again four. It's really funny I never see them on the land for sun basking if for digging a nest but I found eggs for the second time. Unfortunately i don't know which female laid those eggs..
you can see on the third picture that they're all fertile and you can see the difference between the "old eggs"

 

[juli11]

Just found a new egg. Only one but I think I disturb her while she laid the eggs. So they should come some more.


It's very cool I just have this adult trio since three months I have now 9 eggs.

 

[cdmay]

Neat picture! Thanks for sharing. Can't wait to see the hatchlings....

 

[juli11]

Yes hopefully I'll get some hatchlings. I never breed this species. If everything goes right the first hatchlings will hatch in the end of January!

 

[juli11]

So unfortunately the first clutch still don't hatch.. the eggs looks pretty and big..
wait wait wait.
Because of a fire some of my animals (also the C. Cruentatum) aren't at my location at the moment. The friend where they're told me that one of them laid 5 eggs again at his location

 

[juli11]

Or what do you think?

 

[cdmay]

Can't tell from the photos--or without looking at them in person.
But my rule is to wait.

 

[juli11]

Yep that's my rule too actually...
so wait

 

[juli11]

There hatch something



And they produce new one