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Post Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 12:25 pm   2 HEADED RED EAR SLIDER VIDEO AND MORE......................

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Post Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 1:54 pm   

Yeah I've seen a lot of those before. They cost over 100's of dollars. I think a hatchling albino runs for like 150$ and a 2 headed a little more. Albinos however have different care needs since their skin is so sensitive. So a beautiful animal like that requires top notch care. They are realy beautiful though...
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Post Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 6:42 pm   

The untold part of that story is that breeders breed literally thousands and thousands and thousands of turtles to get those rare mutations, discard most of the "normal ones" and sell those exotic RES for outrageous prices, and most of them, the two headed ones especially, don't live past hatchlings, especially because these "companies" don't care enough about the turtles to tell the new owners about the proper care of hatchlings.
It's really pretty disgusting in my opinion.
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