Little Miss Snack Bite. The way she is growing, she is going to need a big girl name really soon! She started to develop a bit more space between than scutes than I was hoping to see, so that is when I moved her to the viv and started misting more. She seems to have smoothed right out.
Second is Black Cherry, my uber dark Cherryhead that came from Terry K. I included some close ups of his head, front legs, and heels. He has somewhere between 8 and 10 red scales TOTAL on his entire body.
Third is my little Three Lined mud turtle, Kinosternon baurii. I think he likes running water, but I am not sure
And last but not least - I was lucky enough to be given these two little beauties. My kids had just started pestering me about getting a turtle of their own, and it worked out perfect. Both are '10 models out of the same parents, but different clutches.
The smaller one, which belongs to my younger daughter. She named it "Tiffany" after the little white dog in one of the Benji movies, lol.
And the larger, which my oldest has not yet deigned to grace with a name
Well, there ya have it. I had a beautiful little melanistic Northern Redbelly, but he failed on me despite trying and trying to get him healthy. I had also a little Stinkpot that failed on me, from the same breeder. I have to say these are the only two chelonians I have had fail to thrive in almost 20 years, and they both came from the same breeder.... hmmmm. I also had a little Southern Painted that was tossed in with the other turtles I had bought (which I did not know ahead of time and did not really want) and I found that one a good home locally, along with a handful of pond turtles that I took in from various people this summer.
Second is Black Cherry, my uber dark Cherryhead that came from Terry K. I included some close ups of his head, front legs, and heels. He has somewhere between 8 and 10 red scales TOTAL on his entire body.
Third is my little Three Lined mud turtle, Kinosternon baurii. I think he likes running water, but I am not sure
And last but not least - I was lucky enough to be given these two little beauties. My kids had just started pestering me about getting a turtle of their own, and it worked out perfect. Both are '10 models out of the same parents, but different clutches.
The smaller one, which belongs to my younger daughter. She named it "Tiffany" after the little white dog in one of the Benji movies, lol.
And the larger, which my oldest has not yet deigned to grace with a name
Well, there ya have it. I had a beautiful little melanistic Northern Redbelly, but he failed on me despite trying and trying to get him healthy. I had also a little Stinkpot that failed on me, from the same breeder. I have to say these are the only two chelonians I have had fail to thrive in almost 20 years, and they both came from the same breeder.... hmmmm. I also had a little Southern Painted that was tossed in with the other turtles I had bought (which I did not know ahead of time and did not really want) and I found that one a good home locally, along with a handful of pond turtles that I took in from various people this summer.
