Hi all,
My hubby and I have a water turtle (known in the UK as a terrapin?) I've looked at loads of pictures on here but he doesnt seem to match any of the breeds shown in pictures given by other members! He's def not a slider, is fairly similar to a diamondback, but his skin is much darker.
We live in Corfu, Greece, and his story is that we have a rather strange river by the side of us, it is supposedly fresh water, but at one end it goes into the sea - never seen anything like it. My daughters found him, along with the egg he came out of on 17th April this year, brought him into our bar with the usual shouts of "Mummy - can we keep him?? and although we have a rule that anything they find in the water has to go back if it's alive we elected that he was too small to survive on his own and got a tank set up for him.
He has lived in his tank on the bar all summer, become very popular with our tourist visitors and a very definite member of our family (lots of animals...lots!) but the season ended a month ago so we brought him home.
He's always been a healthy eater but during the last few days he's refusing his food (generic dried stuff from the pet shop) and has taken to sleeping underwater instead of on his sunny rock..... We've tried changing his food but nothing seems to get him interested. Any ideas?
I have got pics of him but this PC has no memory card slot so I need to get hubby to put them on his PC and email them over.
Thanks in advance
Helen
My hubby and I have a water turtle (known in the UK as a terrapin?) I've looked at loads of pictures on here but he doesnt seem to match any of the breeds shown in pictures given by other members! He's def not a slider, is fairly similar to a diamondback, but his skin is much darker.
We live in Corfu, Greece, and his story is that we have a rather strange river by the side of us, it is supposedly fresh water, but at one end it goes into the sea - never seen anything like it. My daughters found him, along with the egg he came out of on 17th April this year, brought him into our bar with the usual shouts of "Mummy - can we keep him?? and although we have a rule that anything they find in the water has to go back if it's alive we elected that he was too small to survive on his own and got a tank set up for him.
He has lived in his tank on the bar all summer, become very popular with our tourist visitors and a very definite member of our family (lots of animals...lots!) but the season ended a month ago so we brought him home.
He's always been a healthy eater but during the last few days he's refusing his food (generic dried stuff from the pet shop) and has taken to sleeping underwater instead of on his sunny rock..... We've tried changing his food but nothing seems to get him interested. Any ideas?
I have got pics of him but this PC has no memory card slot so I need to get hubby to put them on his PC and email them over.
Thanks in advance
Helen
