Slow and Steady - Inactive

I am tracking the development of Slow and Steady, the Eastern Long Neck (Chelodina longicollis) Australian Freshwater turtles. This blog started when they were just 5 months old.

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Location: Sydney, Australia

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Thursday, May 19, 2005

Turtle Bum


Turtle Bum
Originally uploaded by GuOddian.
This great shot is of Steady's bum. My girlfriend Georgie took the photo.

The turtles are doing great, they really love the earth worms, but they only get them once a week at most. They're still getting the vitamins once a week inside their fish. Steady's shell is almost completely black again, Slow's shell is gradually getting better I think and harder as well.

We have a whole bunch of fish in there with them now. I bought a rainbow shark and a flying fox for my other tank as I had read they were placid fish. But they turned out to be agressive buggers so they live with my turtles now. They fight each other all the time too, but they're too fast for the turtles. There are also 20 feeder fish in there (Tiger Barbs and Rosy Barbs) but they're too fast for the turtles at this stage. They'll help filter the water and keep it clean though so I don't mind if the turtles don't eat them yet.

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