Photo Gallery :: Releasing a Rescue

[Linus]

I had the opportunity to release a really old male RES into a local pond, in fact my college's pond. I had permission of the guy who runs the pond. Don't go releasing turtles into random ponds please.

Anyway, onward to the photos:


Here's the big guy.












Another Melanistic Male














These guys are hanging out near where you can buy food for $.25

[AlexisAwesome]

Very nice.

[dumbork14]

Cool. Love the group shots.

[justatwinturbo]

Just for fun, in the 3rd from last pic, who can spot the Cumberland slider, and what looks to be a trachemys emolli x res hybrid

[AlexisAwesome]

The one on the left? He is kinda tilted over?

[Linus]

He looked fine. There were def. some in the pond that were tilted though.

[steve]

Wow, that's a lot of healthy looking RES. Is this the same pond you posted about a year or so ago?

[Linus]

Yep.

Ok, so on another fourm, we're having an issue of what exactly this guy is. I assumed he was a male RES, because of the very faint red ear you can see in the first photo.

But here's the problem. His front claws are short, but he has a fat tail. And he has no stripe through his eye.

And you can see in the second photo how much different his whole head looks from the other slider.

[justatwinturbo]

its a RES, you can still see some of the pattern on the carapace, and the faint (very faint) red on the head.

[Sir Max]

Thats ALOT of turtles haha!