Pet Snapping Turtle

[Inferno]

Originally Posted by tommymac

DONT FEED THEM GOLDFISH, you have ot use minnows or something else, goldfish are not good for turtles.

That's good to know. I had a smaller snapper many years ago and fed it lettuce and cold meats like hot dogs and ham. Did not get salmonella. It was pretty tame, but looking back, I am glad I did not get bit lol

I have a 55 gallon tank now, so it will be a smaller snapper. I have eyeballed a few that will work, but seeing the size of the big ones in the lake will require a LARGE aquarium sooner than latter.

I might just make it a Blue Gill aquarium, there are LM Bass in the lake also, but they will outgrow the 55 also. Maybe some sliders with the Blue Gill.

[tommymac]

Originally Posted by Inferno

That's good to know. I had a smaller snapper many years ago and fed it lettuce and cold meats like hot dogs and ham. Did not get salmonella. It was pretty tame, but looking back, I am glad I did not get bit lol

I have a 55 gallon tank now, so it will be a smaller snapper. I have eyeballed a few that will work, but seeing the size of the big ones in the lake will require a LARGE aquarium sooner than latter.

I might just make it a Blue Gill aquarium, there are LM Bass in the lake also, but they will outgrow the 55 also. Maybe some sliders with the Blue Gill.

Look at mud and musk turtles too, some look prety cool and dont get as big as snappers. I had a 20 gal with 2 muds, one musk and a painted turtle and they all did well 9despite me feeding them goldfish )

Snappers can be agressive but will sneak up on ya too so be careful. I have never owned a ginormus one bt have handled a few and had a few smaller ones as pets and they can be sneaky.

[Dave]

Originally Posted by Inferno

That's good to know. I had a smaller snapper many years ago and fed it lettuce and cold meats like hot dogs and ham. Did not get salmonella. It was pretty tame, but looking back, I am glad I did not get bit lol

I have a 55 gallon tank now, so it will be a smaller snapper. I have eyeballed a few that will work, but seeing the size of the big ones in the lake will require a LARGE aquarium sooner than latter.

I might just make it a Blue Gill aquarium, there are LM Bass in the lake also, but they will outgrow the 55 also. Maybe some sliders with the Blue Gill.

Blue gills are awesome in the home aquarium. Very aggressive though eat damn near anything

[Mudpuppy]

snappers make good soup.. we use to catch them with pepperoni out of the river..

[Amber Lamps]

Turtle is one of those foods, like crab,that is more trouble than it's worth IMHO.

[Mudpuppy]

not when your friend not only pays you for catching them but also makes the soup whilst you drink beers..

[Mudpuppy]

yeah blue gill would be an awesome aquarium fish..

[Dave]

Originally Posted by Mudpuppy

yeah blue gill would be an awesome aquarium fish..

I had one for like eight months, you could toss anything in there, house bugs, pellets, fish, lunchmeat. Dude just didn't care

[Mudpuppy]

Originally Posted by Dave

I had one for like eight months, you could toss anything in there, house bugs, pellets, fish, lunchmeat. Dude just didn't care

no shit? so it would eat anything.. that is cool..

i had a pike and a some kind of a cichlid called a jaguar or something.. i fed them all kinds of shit as well.. they really liked earthworms (which most fish of decent size do).. so when it rained i would go a-worming hunting..

the coolest fish i had was a red devil - feed him goldfish and he would grab ahold of them from behind and you could watch them intake the goldfish until the skull popped off.. Well that and my butterkoferi.. bought 5 of them and 1 lived - the strongest.. put him in a tank with 5 fresh water piranha and he destroyed every last one of them..

[Dave]

Originally Posted by Mudpuppy

no shit? so it would eat anything.. that is cool..

i had a pike and a some kind of a cichlid called a jaguar or something.. i fed them all kinds of shit as well.. they really liked earthworms (which most fish of decent size do).. so when it rained i would go a-worming hunting..

the coolest fish i had was a red devil - feed him goldfish and he would grab ahold of them from behind and you could watch them intake the goldfish until the skull popped off.. Well that and my butterkoferi.. bought 5 of them and 1 lived - the strongest.. put him in a tank with 5 fresh water piranha and he destroyed every last one of them..

Nice, my silver arrowana did one like that. Murdered all his tankmates and suicided. I was...upset