As I told you a couple weeks ago, my tortoise partner (William owns half interest in all my turtles and tortoises) was going to be spending his vacation here with me to dig the sludge out of my pond, instead of going to look at tortoises in South Africa. Well, he and my across-the-street neighbor have been working on the pond for the past two days. What a BIG job! The turtles had dug caves under the bank, and the banks were eroding away in spots.
Here's what it looked like before the project got underway:
Note the large water iris on the right side of the pond. The plant was taking up half the water space and had to come out! What a job that was.
Here's what it looks like at the end of today:
And we found TWO of these:
Another bad close-up picture, sorry! I figured if any eggs ever hatched the big turtles would eat the babies.
My back is breaking and William has to leave on Saturday. I hope we can finish by then. More pictures to come...
(UPDATED 3-24-18) DARNED PHOTOBUCKET! I SHOULD HAVE NEVER USED THEM FOR MY PICTURES, BUT AT THAT TIME, IT WAS HARD TO POST PICTURES USING THE FORUM'S PICTURE THING. SO HERE ARE THE POND PICTURES FROM MY COMPUTER. THEY MIGHT BE OUT OF ORDER, BUT YOU CAN AT LEAST SEE WHAT THIS THREAD WAS ALL ABOUT:
Here's what it looked like before the project got underway:
Note the large water iris on the right side of the pond. The plant was taking up half the water space and had to come out! What a job that was.
Here's what it looks like at the end of today:
And we found TWO of these:
Another bad close-up picture, sorry! I figured if any eggs ever hatched the big turtles would eat the babies.
My back is breaking and William has to leave on Saturday. I hope we can finish by then. More pictures to come...
(UPDATED 3-24-18) DARNED PHOTOBUCKET! I SHOULD HAVE NEVER USED THEM FOR MY PICTURES, BUT AT THAT TIME, IT WAS HARD TO POST PICTURES USING THE FORUM'S PICTURE THING. SO HERE ARE THE POND PICTURES FROM MY COMPUTER. THEY MIGHT BE OUT OF ORDER, BUT YOU CAN AT LEAST SEE WHAT THIS THREAD WAS ALL ABOUT:
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