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They're Home and Awake!

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Fri Mar 18, 2011 4:08 pm
by Diamondbacks4Life
So happy, all my turtles made it through hibernation and everyone is looking good. All maintained a healthy weight. Was a little worried about them going from the shallow water for hibernation back to full stocktank outside but they made it through the night okay and are swimming around and basking right now in this warm spurt of 78 dgree weather :3
So here is the my lovely adult females of my diamondbacks. Haha they dont seem that big but the two biggest are 8inches and so I threw in small diamondback just about to hit the 4inch mark, who should be female also because she isnt showing sign of being male compared to another one that size whos tail is definitely getting bigger.


Also yes, that diamondback does have a healed old injury on the side of her shell.
Re: They're Home and Awake!

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Fri Mar 18, 2011 5:28 pm
by happycamper
Congratulations on a successful hibernation!
Beautiful turtles!!
Re: They're Home and Awake!

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Fri Mar 18, 2011 7:26 pm
by rsour24
yayaya ive been waiting to see these haha
Re: They're Home and Awake!

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Sat Mar 19, 2011 12:55 am
by steve
Nice! I had mine out for a stroll today too. Had a peak 166 uW/cm2 UVB reading

Re: They're Home and Awake!

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Sun Mar 20, 2011 5:39 am
by AllTheCandies
yaaaaay! they're all so pretty! i love their patterns
Re: They're Home and Awake!

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Sun Mar 20, 2011 12:36 pm
by Diamondbacks4Life
Well the turtle will be sleeping in their summer home for a week. Furture of the week shows it going down to the 20s. Darn
Re: They're Home and Awake!

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Tue Apr 12, 2011 8:02 am
by Diamondbacks4Life
Well i thought I would update, when i brought them home temps dropped belows 30s again and they went back to not moving. Things havent gone so smoothly. The female on far right defiently has a problem and has become inactive. She actually poped up floating last week and I brought her inside. All the other turtles however ate for the first time this morning so that is good news accept for the lone male. Not sure how he is. He seems slow to and did not eat. Went from being in the 30s one night to 86 yesterday. The temps are all over the place here. So we will see how things go but it was good to see most of the diamondbacks super active.
Re: They're Home and Awake!

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Tue Apr 12, 2011 11:19 am
by AllTheCandies
ouch :/
the weather is NUTS lately! The world done gone crazy.
Re: They're Home and Awake!

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Wed Apr 13, 2011 10:17 pm
by Bugbug
It's always rainy and wet in Oregon, not many chances to let my turtle outside :/ i bet it would be awesome to be able to though.
And sorry about your Turts not feeling well... hope they get better : (
Re: They're Home and Awake!

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Mon Apr 18, 2011 3:51 am
by Moose
I hope all is well with the female DBT she is my FAVORITE! Weather is varying quite drastically here in az but thats kind of typical, keep us posted!

Re: They're Home and Awake!

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Mon May 09, 2011 8:03 am
by Diamondbacks4Life
Well i thought i should say. Yesterday the female on the far right passed away. Very upsetting to me, each dbt is like a one of kind painting which cant be reproduced. I can never replace her. I will really miss not seeing her.
On an upside though, the male which i thought might be sick too has gone back to normal.
Re: They're Home and Awake!

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Mon May 09, 2011 8:06 am
by Jaysea

Very sorry to hear that, she was beautiful. At least you know she had a happy life with you, and you can always remember her by looking at her pictures. I'm sure that's not much help to you right now tho

Re: They're Home and Awake!

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Mon May 09, 2011 2:17 pm
by Bugbug
Sorry about your loss, hope you are doing okay *hugs*
Re: They're Home and Awake!

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Mon May 09, 2011 3:24 pm
by Moose
dbt4LIFE i AM SOOOOO SORRY FOR YOUR LOSS! She really was a beautiful turtle! Are you going to be okay?

Re: They're Home and Awake!

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Mon May 09, 2011 8:52 pm
by slider_keeper
so sorry to hear the news, hang in there things will be alright:)