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I posted this up today with the hope that someone would adopt her. Shellysmom got in contact with me and decided that she wanted her for her private collection. The owner got off work at midnight and I went and got it and just finished getting settled in for the night (2:30am central time). I went and picked her up tonight because I just had a hunch that I needed to get this guy just as soon as I could and boy was I right.
I don't even know where to begin, i'm really kinda down about it actually but i'll start with the water situation. The bowl is one of those big rock looking abominations that no baby turtle in the world could possibly get into and if it did manage to get into it, there's a good chance it wouldn't be able to get out so for the last 2 months she's owned it, it hasn't been able to drink water. Oh and no soaks or anything at all for the little guy.
Food, well this isn't much different. First it was offered "veggies" which turned out to be just lettuce and also some rock hard turtle pellets (not soaked in water of course to soften it up, that would of required common sense) in a bowl that, once again, was entirely too deep so it couldn't even get to it if it wanted to. I just don't understand the deal about the dishes being 2 inches deep for a turtle that is an inch long. I know this isn't the place to be bashing people for their ignorance but I don't feel this is the product of ignorance, it's just stupid. Oh and speaking of stupid the person where she bought it told her to feed it every other day so it's shell wouldn't become deformed. That makes perfect sense. She did feed it meal worms a few times a week so it did get a balanced meal from those occassionally.
Other than all that, the turtle is wide eyed and bushy tailed, moving all over the place and so forth. The instant I got home I prepared a shallow, warm bath for it and allowed it to do something it's probably never had the opportunity to do. I've never seen an animal drink soo much soo fast as this little guy did. I doubt it hasn't had a drink of water in the 2 months this girl owned her.
I placed it in a small rubbermaid container and placed the container under a CHE right now the temp is a steady 80 degrees with 80% humidity. The substrate is coconut coir that is slightly moist.
Since it came with a 10 gallon I decided to make use of it and took a bag of gravel that I had and spread it around and then on one side I poured some coconut coir in over the gravel. I filled it up with water just to the point where the gravel is covered. So the idea was to have just the gravel wet and still have a semidry area (coir) for him/her to retreat from the water. I figured since he hasn't had any water in months I certainly wasn't going to deprive him any longer. So now he has a little wading to do what he pleases. I haven't put him in it yet, i'll wait til the morning to do so.
Anyways, after I am able to establish that he his healthy and well and ok for transport i'm gonna ship him off to Fl where hopefully he will live generation after generation in Erika's care.
Oh and for anyone wondering the reason she got rid of it was because her apt found out and wanted to charger a pet deposit of 200 so she opted to give it up.
I posted this up today with the hope that someone would adopt her. Shellysmom got in contact with me and decided that she wanted her for her private collection. The owner got off work at midnight and I went and got it and just finished getting settled in for the night (2:30am central time). I went and picked her up tonight because I just had a hunch that I needed to get this guy just as soon as I could and boy was I right.
I don't even know where to begin, i'm really kinda down about it actually but i'll start with the water situation. The bowl is one of those big rock looking abominations that no baby turtle in the world could possibly get into and if it did manage to get into it, there's a good chance it wouldn't be able to get out so for the last 2 months she's owned it, it hasn't been able to drink water. Oh and no soaks or anything at all for the little guy.
Food, well this isn't much different. First it was offered "veggies" which turned out to be just lettuce and also some rock hard turtle pellets (not soaked in water of course to soften it up, that would of required common sense) in a bowl that, once again, was entirely too deep so it couldn't even get to it if it wanted to. I just don't understand the deal about the dishes being 2 inches deep for a turtle that is an inch long. I know this isn't the place to be bashing people for their ignorance but I don't feel this is the product of ignorance, it's just stupid. Oh and speaking of stupid the person where she bought it told her to feed it every other day so it's shell wouldn't become deformed. That makes perfect sense. She did feed it meal worms a few times a week so it did get a balanced meal from those occassionally.
Other than all that, the turtle is wide eyed and bushy tailed, moving all over the place and so forth. The instant I got home I prepared a shallow, warm bath for it and allowed it to do something it's probably never had the opportunity to do. I've never seen an animal drink soo much soo fast as this little guy did. I doubt it hasn't had a drink of water in the 2 months this girl owned her.
I placed it in a small rubbermaid container and placed the container under a CHE right now the temp is a steady 80 degrees with 80% humidity. The substrate is coconut coir that is slightly moist.
Since it came with a 10 gallon I decided to make use of it and took a bag of gravel that I had and spread it around and then on one side I poured some coconut coir in over the gravel. I filled it up with water just to the point where the gravel is covered. So the idea was to have just the gravel wet and still have a semidry area (coir) for him/her to retreat from the water. I figured since he hasn't had any water in months I certainly wasn't going to deprive him any longer. So now he has a little wading to do what he pleases. I haven't put him in it yet, i'll wait til the morning to do so.
Anyways, after I am able to establish that he his healthy and well and ok for transport i'm gonna ship him off to Fl where hopefully he will live generation after generation in Erika's care.
Oh and for anyone wondering the reason she got rid of it was because her apt found out and wanted to charger a pet deposit of 200 so she opted to give it up.
