olivehydra
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SLACkra said:We swear by the purigen pillows. They remove all ammonia, ammonium and polish the water. They are also re-chargeable so after the initial purchase cost of around $30 you have something that should last year 10 years or more unlike the disposable activated carbon etc. All our turtle aquariums run with purigen in the filters as well!
where do you get this product?
also i am guessing you keep the tank water at a certain temp, however what happens if they want to cool down or warm up? how deep of a tank do they require?
also it would be interesting to see if they would enjoy a land area with a heat lamp and a lil vapor making thingy.
andrew
As others have said they are not a fan of land at all. A herpetologist friend of mine was describing how he watched a bunch of aboriginal women collecting them for food, which is something I found interesting. Instead of breaking their neck (as described in most publications), these women just waded along the waters edge feeling for the snakes under submerged roots. When they caught them they just threw them onto the river bank and kept on going upstream. The snakes were that useless on land that they would still be there some time later, unable to make it back to the water, or so I am told.
I love these snakes but info on them is quite limited (or hard to find). I assume they give birth to live young?? Anyone??
Expansa, have you ever kept any with northern species of turts?