This story started out not very good.. really sad as a matter of fact.
A MA Herp Society friend contacted me to say that he was able to rescue [ wait'll you hear this ] an adult female Brazilian. He told me that a younger person contacted him and asked him if he would take this big "TURTLE" that they had raised. The story goes that she was a hatchling raised in a 55 gallon aquarium on newspaper and fed Reptomin pellets! Have no idea what kind of water dish.. probly no hide..... I hate to think what else - this really hurts to even write this. She got so big that she couldn't even turn around in the aquarium.
He took her and checked her over - excellent health!!! ( unbelieveable ) she had never seen another redfoot ever - and virtually shipped her to me the next day - mid Aug. '09.
Since the temps were good I immediately placed her outside into a quarantine enclosure and watched to see what she would do. She didn't move out from under the Rose of Sharon for 2 days.
Introducing our new girl coming out from under her 'corner-hide' -
She started cruising and hasn't stopped!
Eating her first "real" food - Hibiscus bloom!
I felt it was worth a video...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lq__RF_srdI
More 'inside' info soon...
NERD
A MA Herp Society friend contacted me to say that he was able to rescue [ wait'll you hear this ] an adult female Brazilian. He told me that a younger person contacted him and asked him if he would take this big "TURTLE" that they had raised. The story goes that she was a hatchling raised in a 55 gallon aquarium on newspaper and fed Reptomin pellets! Have no idea what kind of water dish.. probly no hide..... I hate to think what else - this really hurts to even write this. She got so big that she couldn't even turn around in the aquarium.
He took her and checked her over - excellent health!!! ( unbelieveable ) she had never seen another redfoot ever - and virtually shipped her to me the next day - mid Aug. '09.
Since the temps were good I immediately placed her outside into a quarantine enclosure and watched to see what she would do. She didn't move out from under the Rose of Sharon for 2 days.
Introducing our new girl coming out from under her 'corner-hide' -
She started cruising and hasn't stopped!
Eating her first "real" food - Hibiscus bloom!
I felt it was worth a video...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lq__RF_srdI
More 'inside' info soon...
NERD