Comments on: Shelly Larratt

By: Swathy

Swathy — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 18:05:55 +0000

can you tell me what species it belongs to?? i have the same kind but don’t know about its family origin or sex. :P

By: Sarah

Sarah — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:42:02 +0000

I have 2 turtles (one a red eared slider aswell) and they are ok with some fish. She should be ok with the fish since shes young and they are bigger than her, though she may nip at them a little. Im sure that she will et used to them being around as she grows up, and there wont be too much of an issue. :) Turtles are such great pets!!

By: stefafra

stefafra — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:16:38 +0000

Oops, yes she will grow up, slowly but constantly, and yes, she will eat any fish as soon as she is big enough for it.
The initially small and cute creatures are carnivorous, actually mine got big on a diet of raw minced meat and cuttlefish bone (cuttlebone?), they need the extra calcium to build new shell otherwise they get soft, ill and die.
As for the sex, it might be very difficult to say, once I read that males have a slightly concave lower shell and female are flatter, but I don’t really know even after having one of those for 20 year. In Europe they are considered a pest because people dump them in ponds and lakes when they get too big and they eat everything that moves.
It will stop eating and doing pretty much anything as soon as winter starts, put it in a cool place were it does not freeze to overwinter.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 12:05:34 +0000

Yeah it will eat the fish when it gets a bigger and they grow quite quickly too.

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 04:12:09 +0000

Shelly’s beautifully green.

By: Joanne

Joanne — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 21:35:29 +0000

Won’t the turtle eat the fish when it gets bigger?

By: Edurus_Fas

Edurus_Fas — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 12:38:17 +0000

If it’s a girl, Shelly…. if it’s a boy, Shelton :P

By: Kyle

Kyle — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 23:55:46 +0000

Could have painted a superman cape on her shell providing it wasnt gonna hurt her.