In article <C3033EF0.3CCD3%joe@bizqwick.com>, San Diego Joe <joe@bizqwick.com> wrote: > "Galen Hekhuis" wrote: > > > Do water turtles crawl away, and do you have to keep them in cages or > > are water turtles more like fish, in that they pretty much stay in the > > pond? > Our turtle walks around a lot. We have a fenced yard that he cannot escape > from. He always returns to the pond after a walkabout. > > >I don't know much about turtles, but I did find in my brief > > skimming that some turtles need to eat vegetables, and in the wild > > they often consume duckweed. > > Red-eared sliders are typically carnivorous as youth and eat more greens as > they age. > Just like us. :-) -- To reply by email, remove the word "space"

I coulda swore it was illegal to sell red eared sliders in the US, because of the salmonella thing years ago. I KNOW it was illegal a year or so ago, because the local pet shop had a BIG fine slapped on them for selling them. -- Gareee (Gary Tabar Jr.)

In <9sjrd3lq1b170c5upsg06jld9pktjo7jes@4ax.com>, on 09/04/07 at 05:31 PM, Galen Hekhuis <ghekhuis@earthlink.net> said: >Do water turtles crawl away, and do you have to keep them in cages or are >water turtles more like fish, in that they pretty much stay in the pond? >I don't know much about turtles, but I did find in my brief skimming that >some turtles need to eat vegetables, and in the wild they often consume >duckweed. (Maybe the alligator ate the turtles that were eating the >duckweed in back.) Usually, they'll crawl away. Alan -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ** Please use address alanh77[at]comcast.net to reply via e-mail. ** Posted using registered MR/2 ICE Newsreader #564 and eComStation 1.21 BBS - The Nerve Center Telnet FidoNet 261/1000 tncbbs.no-ip.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------