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Here comes MILLIE!!!
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I think the phrase you're looking for is "Will Work for Food"!
Bold and Pinstripe send a warm welcome to their distant cousin! Mississippi mud turtles and three-striped mud turtles are very close in appearance and closely related, as well.
Bold and Pinstripe send a warm welcome to their distant cousin! Mississippi mud turtles and three-striped mud turtles are very close in appearance and closely related, as well.
And Millie sends a hearty thanks back to Bold and Pinstripe! [emoji2][emoji173]️
CarolM
Well-Known Member
Welcome to the family Millie. And congratulations Moozillion. Millie looks gorgeous and like she will fit right in.
Fabulous growth for just one year.
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YES!!! Kasey did a FANTASTIC job with Millie!!!Fabulous growth for just one year
Millie is doing FANTASTIC!!! i was worried about taking on a "special needs" turtle, but I need NOT have worried at all!
Millie eats anything and everything I offer her (her foster mom told me Millie eats well, and boy, was she was right!). Millie gobbled up the Hikari Sinking Carnivore pellets from the very first day I brought her home. When I dropped some of the Mazuri floating turtle pellets in, she didn't even wait for them to soften up at all, but grabbed a pellet, chomped down, and shattered with with an audible CRA-ACK !!
I had been told that Millie especially enjoys LIVE food, so i dug up an earthworm and dropped it in her tank. I figured she'd eat it but I was unprepared for the EPIC BATTLE and the WORM CARNAGE that ensued!!! The worm was a huge one from my back garden: easily 4 inches long and robust. Millie is 2 and 1/2 inches long. As soon as I dropped the worm in, Millie took about 1.5 seconds to size up her victim, and then she lunged and chomped down on it! The worm immediately reared itself up and wrapped around her head (this thing is twice as long as she is, if you recall) and she RAN BACKWARDS IN REVERSE THE ENTIRE LENGTH OF THE TANK, dragging the thrashing earthworm with her!!! The worm put up an amazing fight, but Millie NEVER released her grip, shook her head from side to side and pawed at it with her only front foot until she managed to bite it entirely in half. The halves continued to writhe and squirm, but it didn't bother her at all! She had quite a feast!!! I got photos of the battle, but I apologize for the darkness of it all-
Millie may be small, she may be immature, and she may have only 3 feet, but don't try to tell her she's handicapped: she won't know what you're talking about!!!
Millie eats anything and everything I offer her (her foster mom told me Millie eats well, and boy, was she was right!). Millie gobbled up the Hikari Sinking Carnivore pellets from the very first day I brought her home. When I dropped some of the Mazuri floating turtle pellets in, she didn't even wait for them to soften up at all, but grabbed a pellet, chomped down,
and shattered with with an audible CRA-ACK !! I had been told that Millie especially enjoys LIVE food, so i dug up an earthworm and dropped it in her tank. I figured she'd eat it but I was unprepared for the EPIC BATTLE and the WORM CARNAGE that ensued!!! The worm was a huge one from my back garden: easily 4 inches long and robust. Millie is 2 and 1/2 inches long. As soon as I dropped the worm in, Millie took about 1.5 seconds to size up her victim, and then she lunged and chomped down on it! The worm immediately reared itself up and wrapped around her head (this thing is twice as long as she is, if you recall) and she RAN BACKWARDS IN REVERSE THE ENTIRE LENGTH OF THE TANK, dragging the thrashing earthworm with her!!! The worm put up an amazing fight, but Millie NEVER released her grip, shook her head from side to side and pawed at it with her only front foot until she managed to bite it entirely in half. The halves continued to writhe and squirm, but it didn't bother her at all! She had quite a feast!!! I got photos of the battle, but I apologize for the darkness of it all-
Millie may be small, she may be immature, and she may have only 3 feet, but don't try to tell her she's handicapped: she won't know what you're talking about!!!
Turtle girl 98
Well-Known Member
Omg she is adorable Moozillion! And oh goodness that worm was huge. I give my little Elvis worms out of the garden to and they're always way bigger than him. It's fun watching them eat them.Millie is doing FANTASTIC!!! i was worried about taking on a "special needs" turtle, but I need NOT have worried at all!
Millie eats anything and everything I offer her (her foster mom told me Millie eats well, and boy, was she was right!). Millie gobbled up the Hikari Sinking Carnivore pellets from the very first day I brought her home. When I dropped some of the Mazuri floating turtle pellets in, she didn't even wait for them to soften up at all, but grabbed a pellet, chomped down,
I had been told that Millie especially enjoys LIVE food, so i dug up an earthworm and dropped it in her tank. I figured she'd eat it but I was unprepared for the EPIC BATTLE and the WORM CARNAGE that ensued!!! The worm was a huge one from my back garden: easily 4 inches long and robust. Millie is 2 and 1/2 inches long. As soon as I dropped the worm in, Millie took about 1.5 seconds to size up her victim, and then she lunged and chomped down on it! The worm immediately reared itself up and wrapped around her head (this thing is twice as long as she is, if you recall) and she RAN BACKWARDS IN REVERSE THE ENTIRE LENGTH OF THE TANK, dragging the thrashing earthworm with her!!! The worm put up an amazing fight, but Millie NEVER released her grip, shook her head from side to side and pawed at it with her only front foot until she managed to bite it entirely in half. The halves continued to writhe and squirm, but it didn't bother her at all! She had quite a feast!!! I got photos of the battle, but I apologize for the darkness of it all-
Millie may be small, she may be immature, and she may have only 3 feet, but don't try to tell her she's handicapped: she won't know what you're talking about!!!
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Doonparker26
New Member
AWESOME story and a great ending to a new beginning! We read so many sad story this one made my day!!!
Millie is such a pretty turtle! Her barbels are adorable! And the light color on her carapace looks a lot like Bold, especially on the sides. Millie truly is lovely.
Bold and Pinstripe say that Millie's earthworm-subduing technique is flawless, and there's nothing handicapped about her at all!
Bold and Pinstripe say that Millie's earthworm-subduing technique is flawless, and there's nothing handicapped about her at all!
Millie is such a pretty turtle! Her barbels are adorable! And the light color on her carapace looks a lot like Bold, especially on the sides. Millie truly is lovely.
Bold and Pinstripe say that Millie's earthworm-subduing technique is flawless, and there's nothing handicapped about her at all!
Thank you! I think she's really pretty too![emoji2][emoji173]️
And I'll be more than happy to convey Bold and Pinstripes approval of her technique to Millie! I'm sure she'll need pleased![emoji2]
Bigred1974
Member
Loving Millie’s set up as well. She’s thriving - well done you
Thank you, Bigred1974! [emoji2][emoji173]️
"I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself."
D. H. Lawrence
