Rio Grande Cooters! Aquarium to Pond: Part 2!

Paschendale52

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Hello!

Today I received 4 Rio Grande Cooters (Pseudemys gorzugi) from Underground Reptiles. They were picked up from the local UPS store without issue and arrived active, looking around, and in good shape.

I'm excited to raise these guys out for a while and then move them out to the pond after they get large enough. This will be the second set of turtles to move out to the pond and will be my largest turtles by a fair margin. According to the internet sources I've been looking at a size of ~16" diameter and ~20 pounds or so would not be an unreasonable size for these guys to get to.

Without further ado!

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TammyJ

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They are beautiful! I guess they lose that dramatic colouring on the shells as they grow to maturity?
 
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