Not a good idea to release it back, what more Old Subang Airport Road / LDP.

Better if u adopt it to someone responsible.

I suspect it might be a RES or a Malayan Box Turtle

Correct, one thing to take note. Even if they are local species, releasing them on man made lake like bukit jalil is not an option. It will encourage more ppl to release them there without knowing the fate of the animals later. Do they get enough food ? Can they survive with 1000+ of them in 1 small lake ?

This is something that even ppl in the animal profession dont really see the core problem, some even told me this "Actually I'm thinking where is the right place to release, I don't want the turtle to be confined, I hope to give back the freedom it should enjoys."

I wonder what confined defines to him, does it mean "trapped" alone in a luxury toyogo box or trapped "freedomly" with thousands of them in 1 lake ? To see it in a simplest and easiest way, we take food availability and feeding ratio and put aside other influencing factor aside first. Under the care of the owner(assuming that he is responsible enough the take care of the said specimen), the specimen would get enough food constantly throughout the per week or should i take per month ? Overfeeding is another problem but at least the food supply were always there at least in my opinion.

Another one sounds like this "Releasing them to the lake, any consequences? " What does freedom defines to you ? Lake ? Big space yet not their native habitat ? Trapped in a man made lake with thousands of others, waiting for ppl to throw pellets at them ? This kind of trend is getting worst as more and more ppl releasing their "overgrown" animals to the lake to give them "more freedom". Duh

I might be wrong, as a human i make mistakes too. So take it as a pinch of salt. No hard feelings.

This post has been edited by uzairi: Mar 7 2009, 10:07 AM

You can use uv filter to eliminate that algae

How big is your ally snapper?

Way to go bro, what a noble action to do.

Nice adrian ! Used to have them, i feed them with kangkung + sawi + banana

Nice giant turtle to have in collection !

Some STs have natural pyramiding so its ok if its not excessive and extreme.

This post has been edited by uzairi: Apr 2 2009, 02:41 AM

Razorback Musk Turtle (Sternotherus Carinatus)

Rule of thumb

Please do not handle your AST and show it to your friends, they might think its harmless but they can do some serious injury if mishandled.

Do not brush your turtle's carapace since its full of nerves and it would hurt them. Just get a nice decent water water filtering setup and you're good to go.

At first they might fight with each other since there are only 2 of them, if you wanna house them together get 3 of them and put them in a spacious tank.

The problem when they are housed together is losing their tails when bitten by the other one. Tails wont grow back and it wont look that nice.

About the water level, it should be double the height of the specimen. For a 4 feet tank, just get a decent power head filter at jalan pasar. Its just around rm28 if in not mistaken and look around for Dolphin brand.

Any pics of the enclosure and the turtle itself ?

How about the water quality ? I used to face this problem when the water quality is bad.

Not a good option to do.

How about feeding time ?

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Added on April 26, 2009, 12:03 amThat lower jaw problem is normal, our moderator crazymouse_yyh got the same problem. Its natural and normal so dont worry.

About the pyramiding problem, feed them less beans and give them more green mustard as they are good for them.

How's your baby res reaction towards the shrimp ?

This post has been edited by uzairi: Apr 26 2009, 12:03 AM

Good then, shouldn't worry much.

Correct, just leave the lower jaw problem as it is.

Interesting

Nice turtles there bro!

Talking about motherly instinct i think its time for me to go back to my hometown for a visit

It would take ages for them to multiply in quantity

Maybe i need to increase my Opuntia project scale and that means more money

no place la bro

yet to cut them since im way across the sea far away from home

you can just follow what bro camillenoir advised you to do so.

Make it at least 30 minutes.



Aside from getting a bigger tank and a good filter, try to feed them on every alternate day. That would be the best way to reduce the water smell and reduce the pellet intake. Try to give them some mustard green once a week and some feeding fish as a treat to them.

Can, but make sure you didnt kill the mosquito using insecticide.

Do not release them back at the public man made lake. Better still put it up for adoption.