I personally wouldn't swap or trade any reptile... unlike mammals, reptiles can hide health issues and traits for a very long time. It rarely or if ever happens in the turtle scene, with turtles, the serious keepers, they really want to know exactly what they have and that can be almost impossible in the Emydura complex unless you know the entire history of where your turtles came from. With so many irresponsible and or uneducated back yard breeders crossing lines. Murrays, Krefft's, Brisbane river, Clarence, Hunter, Macleay River turtles can all crossbreed if kept together and produce mongrel clutches with no genetic integrity whatsoever. Many turtles also have a generation length of 10,15-20 years meaning they will not breed for that long, so it's a long time to wait to find out what you thought you had is now a big goose egg.. An adult female turtle can produce viable eggs for 4 consecutive seasons from a single mating and a single clutch can have up to 5 separate fathers. Once a turtle's genetics are compromised, it's irreversible. Macleays for example are the smallest Australian species in captivity with males averaging 12-14cm Straight Carapace length and females around 16cm, I once saw a person trying to sell yearling "Macleays" that were 23cm! What a joke. They'd obviously been crossed with Murrays and were HUGE!
No trades or swaps for me.
