Habitat - Outdoor :: RES In New Mexico

[GunnerMan]

Never found the male, he is the one I am worried about. Hardly ever see him. I accedentaly caught the female though and she didn't seem to unhappy beeing in the muck honestly but I took her out and put her back in the pond. I will get some anacharis asap. I have not measure dthem yet but they are probably about 5 or so inches. They should have a lot of quiet time now that our cleanup is done. I have checked and double checked all of our goop buckets to make sure there are no trutles in them.

[SpotsMama]

Good luck. Keep us posted.

[marisa]

Some water hyancinth in that pond would really be good (can you get it where you are? It's usually sold in garden shops that sell pond supplies).

[DavidY]

Be careful of what kind it is (make sure it's not poisonous) because someone else mentioned their turtle died not long after eating their hyacinth that they had gotten from the pet store (and has since been banned from sale in their state).

[marisa]

How many kinds of water hyancith are there? I read that post, but have never heard of water hyancinth being poisonous. Was the poster sure it was water hyancinth? Could it have been treated with something?

[DavidY]

Hmm, I don't know. I've never heard of anything like that before either, but that post made me a little nervous about just putting any live plant in with the turtles.

[GunnerMan]

Yeah I always get some Hyacinth int he pond, like I said it's early in the season thats why it is kind of bare, hyacinth is a littlew harder in my pond as I have skimmer that sucks the top layer of water so any floating plants end up in the skimmer.

[marisa]

Well, if you go by http://wikipedia.org/wiki/water_hyacinth there are 7 species. I could not find any info on them being poisonous despite the other drawbacks they may have (such as being invasive).