Photo Gallery :: Joining the Circus!

[Hammy]

I walked into the kitchen this evening and this is what I seen... I think special bonus points should go to me for being able to sneak up on them before they disembarked!

[sonyj]

So adorable!! Thanks for sharing it with us, Hammy.

[daredevilgirl013]

That tail is monsterous! I hope mine's tail doesn't get that big! I think it could kill someone.

The balancing act is cute. You should enter it in the photo contest.

[jenaero]

very cute. definetly enter it

[cam722]

That is a fantastic picture..

and with that tail.. that's definitely a boy you have there.. LOL

[daredevilgirl013]

Hey and that little green tube says EHEIM Almost like Ahem..like they are saying Ahem excuse you for interrupting our act. That's cute!

[TinySlider2]

Aww how cute. Great picture.

[Hammy]

Thanks for the nice responses everyone!

I should really keep my proper camera on hand near the tank at all times as they are always doing something silly!

[marisa]

That's fantastic!

[QuanMan]

Dang.......*awards you with special bonus points*

[SlidersRCool]

I can never sneak up on my Slider quick enough before he jumps into the water. That's a really cool picture though. I'm sure they scuttled off as soon as you snapped

[Hammy]

They stayed there as I took the picture, so I slinked off quietly and left them to it

Didn't want to disturb them again with the real camera... though I will kepp a look out in future!

[RESCHIU]

that is so cute, getting picture of special moment like that is very rare to find. Do they get along well?(since one's bigger than another one), can I also ask you a question, what size of the floating dock you purchase that would hold up two turtle like that, mine's small size and water always gets in whenever my turtle land on it

[Hammy]

They get on alot better than I originally thought they would from reading the forums, and their general behaviour...

The dock is the biggest one of the range, I think large, (not sure if there was an X-large) and the three of them can all fit on it fine...

Feeding used to be a problem as the big guy (Spanky) used to eat ALL the food, so I reverted to hand feeding them all...

Lately I have been trying to get back to float feeding them, just sprinkling into different areas and monitoring them, and they are all happy enough with that (though once I go near the tank with the food they tend to beg for a while and disregard the food that I am throwing into them - waiting on me hand feeding them) But eventually they calm down and go about their business and suddenly realise there is food floating by them!

I have been closely monitoring this as I am still a little apprehensive about Spanky being alot bigger than the little ones and taking all their food - but they appear to be happy enough to share, and thats a relief...

Doesn't mean I can relax though... as long as Spanky is alot bigger than them I will continue to stay with them during feeding time to make sure everything is fine.

One of the little ones even tried to take food from Spanky and I had to intervene and seperate the pair of them... was a scary moment...lol

(I will stop rambling now)

[marisa]

Sounds like they're doing well. I can relate with the feeding issue, especially when they've gotten used to getting food from your fingers.