Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 4:11 pm
Yeah most of them are rescues and they came that way. I have raised squirt from a hatchling and he's perfect, Jackie {res} and Chloe {ybs}were both 7 inches and living in a 20 long before I got them, Crunch {fl cooter}was found in the road with a chip out of his shell that was bleeding and I went through 7 months of blood poison and shots, Storm {melanistic slider}was living in a bathtub with 2 inches of black water in a basment in Mass before he came here, Onyx {common musk}and Lexus {res} were living together for 10 years and Lexie came with severe shell rot and only 3 inches, onyx was way skinny, Timmy came with very mild shell fungus, They have all had their issues but are getting better and the shells havn't gotten any worse I have the care down to each turt and what they need. Almost all the tanks are now gone and we have a HUGE pond I will get pics of soon it is 7 foot by 13 foot and 21 inches deep with a 3 foot by 1 foot stream connected into a 9 foot by 6 foot 10 inch deep area, there is a 3 foot land area with various plants along the entire side of the ponds and then a 10 foot by 6 foot land area at one end. 2 water falls move the water. All but Lexus, Spazz, Tc, Tinker and Benltey are in the pond {no the russian and sulcata aren't either} I feel once they reach 5 inches they can go out there otherwise they stay in the house.
11 res,2 Cooters,4 Sulcata,2 ybs,1 Ornate wood,2 Common musk,1 melanistic slider,1 striped mud,1 russian,2 japanese pond, 2 3 toe box, 2 Black Woods, 3 Vietnam pond, ,1 western painted,2 reeves,1new guinea snake neck,2 Miss maps, 1 African helmeted
how do you pay for all that 
