Meet Franklin - our baby Krefft's Turtle!

kagan1042

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Hi everyone, have a look at my special early Christmas present.....

Isn't he adorable! He is eating well and loves playing in the bubbles from the hangon filter. He has already started to try and chase the fish who are only just a little smaller then him.

I will be measuring/charting his weight and growth every week, so i will keep you posted. One the day we got him he was 3.8cm long and weight 7.2 grams. Tiny turtle!

He's very shy but is learning that hands mean food!
 

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Kagan, he is absoluetly adorable......Many happy years ahead of you. Can't wait to get more pics of him in the future.

 
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  • Katia Del Rio-Tsonis:
    Dear All, I would appreciate some help identifying P. waltl disease and treatment. We received newts from Europe early November and a few maybe 3/70 had what it looked like lesions under the legs- at that time we thought maybe it was the stress of travel- now we think they probably had "red leg syndrome" (see picture). However a few weeks later other newts started to develop skin lesions (picture enclosed). The sender recommended to use sulfamerazine and we have treated them 2x and we are not sure they are all recovering. Does anyone have any experience with P. waltl diseases and could give some input on this? Any input would be greatly appreciated! Thank you.
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    sorry I am having a hard time trying to upload the pictures- I have them saved on my hard drive... any suggestions-the prompts here are not allowing for downloads that way as far as I can tell. Thanks
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