Australian Reptile Park

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Originally uploaded by GuOddian.

We went to the australian reptile park yesterday and had a look at the turtles there. They had lots of long necks, though all of them were outside. It was interesting the amount of green algae that had grown on their shells, also a shame that I don't have a picture to show as well. The Murray Rivery turtles and the Saw Shelled turtles that were outside had reletively clean shells in comparison, makes me wonder if this is a testiment to how much time the long necks spend in the water compared with the other species as the Murrays and Sawshells were all out on land basking where as half the long necks were swimming.

This shot is of slow basking on the log first thing in the morning.

Shell steadily improving

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Originally uploaded by GuOddian.

Well here is steady at the bottom of the tank. You can see his shell is steadily improving and that makes me very happy.

On another note the idea to chill the crickets a little before feeding was fantastic, worked a treat. I tried to take some photos of the crickets being munched but it's very difficult to get a good one so I couldn't post any of them.

I also bought some fish for my small tank. I was breeding guppies to feed to the turtles but I've found they grow too slowly so I've given up on that and just feed them frozen freshwater fish when they get fish instead. So my small tank is now housing silversharks, algae eaters and catfish (all quite young) along with the guppies that will, once large enough so the turtles don't eat them, be moved to the large tank with the turtles.