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04-Sep-06, 05:05 PM
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  My little turtle.. its about 2 months old its gorgeous. but one problem is when i brought her she had a soft spot on the bottom end of the shell. now since then it has hardened just a little but still it is a bit soft!
i feed her in a seperate tank outside to get a bit of sun everyday! i had a calcium block aswell in the tank ( the shop suggested it) is there any other tips???
thanks
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04-Sep-06, 05:12 PM
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feed it things like prawns (soaked in fresh water for 30mins before feeding), turtle food from the pet store with added calcium in it or anything full of calcium/keratin
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04-Sep-06, 05:13 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-06 Location: Brisbane Age/Gender: 23  | | | | RE: Murray River Turtle???
Supplement the food with vitamin D and calcium powder and feed it whole small fish. You can get turtle food frozen in chocolate sized blocks this has calcium and vit D in it already. The sun is important too so keep that up.
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04-Sep-06, 05:17 PM
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ok thank you
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04-Sep-06, 05:24 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Aug-06 Location: Sydney | | | | RE: Murray River Turtle???
you have a murray river turtle?? mad! i didnt realise you could keep those!
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04-Sep-06, 05:31 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Dec-05 Location: Sydney Gender: | | | | RE: Murray River Turtle???
I bought 3 hatchlings at the start of the year, I like to vary the diet from day to day between bloodworms, earthworms, dusted woodies or crickets, frozen cubes of turtle food from Sydney Reptile Supplies in Parramatta (mix of bass, barramundi, bok choy, calamari, calcium and vitamins) and they always have live plants (duck weed and ribbon weed). I will give them small live fish when they grow up a bit.
There are 2 great caresheets on turtles in the feature articles section of this site which are definately worth a read.
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04-Sep-06, 07:20 PM
| | Suspended | Join Date: Mar-06 Location: diamond creek, melbourne, australia | | | | RE: Murray River Turtle???
wow never heard of murray river turtles
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04-Sep-06, 07:25 PM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Jun-06 Location: Coffs Harbour Gender: | | | | RE: Murray River Turtle???
i have two murray rivers, they are also known as short necks...
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04-Sep-06, 07:32 PM
| | Suspended | Join Date: Mar-05 Location: Nowra Age/Gender: 24 | | | | RE: Murray River Turtle???
any chance of pictures? They are heaps cool to keep hey.
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04-Sep-06, 07:51 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-06 Location: Brisbane Age/Gender: 23 | | |
Here one of mine i just noticed i dont have many good pics 
There is a sleepy cod on the right too.
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