Video of my turtles hunting crayfish ... is about 15mb or so

here

It's hardly hunting when they are being hand fed in a small tank. :P

Good video tho. And was 17MB.

That second one put up a decent fight.

Pretty cool. How long have you had them? I've wanted to get turtles for a while but they're hella expensive.

they're about 10 months old. If you have a license ( which you need to buy them anywhere legit ) you can get them from Lone Pine @ $40 ea or so ... the money goes into their turtle breeding programs ... heaps cheaper than the $100+ at a pet store.

haha they're pretty cool. whats with the star wars music lol.

CHEWBACCA!

WHAT A WOOKIE!

they're about 10 months old. If you have a license ( which you need to buy them anywhere legit ) you can get them from Lone Pine @ $40 ea or so ... the money goes into their turtle breeding programs ... heaps cheaper than the $100+ at a pet store.

What's involved in getting a license? I know you have to contact some department and keep a log-book... Is there much more to it then that?

the star wars song is from clerks and its done by Supernova - Chewbacca What A Wookie

What's involved in getting a license? I know you have to contact some department and keep a log-book... Is there much more to it then that?

Nope that's about it. DPI or fisheries can't remember which one.

Get in contact with the EPA - Environmental Protection Agency.. They'll issue you with a turtle permit.

I should get some footage of my tank at feeding time...
It's insane =)

Lineup now =

2x Splendidae (man these things have HUGE mouths (largish side of medium)
9x Red Devils (7x medium + 2x large
70x odd Red Devil fry - 5th batch so far: good food for Splendidae :/
3x Festae (1x small + 2 medium size)
2x Rivulatus (medium size)
2x random africans (small med)
3x Huge Blue Claw crays
1x Extra Large Plecostomus

LOBSTER
STICKS
TO
MAG-NET

ok not quite but still, would have been a nice choice in songs :)

I felt sad for the baby lobsters.
:(

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last edited by Dopefish at 17:39:21 13/Sep/05

All these threads always make me jealous, I really wish I had the money to get a decent tank setup :(

I lol'd at the 2nd one darting away and the turtle didn't know & tried to eat that rock

http://home.iprimus.com.au/whoop/crab.gif

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i bet it must feel bad to be eaten alive

It would have been better if this was one of those mislabled 'home videos' =(

haha the crayfish was pwning the turtle for a little while there, on the second one

whoop damn it you beat me to the lobster joke :/

its ok we'll all laugh at your ocau thread about it hunter lol

Haha that was great, bit of fight action. I want a turtle so I can call it Monty!

PS Dopefish ROFLMAO !!

My brother had three red eared sliders a few years back, very cool creatures.

Turtles ftw.

Stinky how do turtles react to stuff put in the tank, plants, logs, ornamental fish ect?

If you turned the tank into a bit of a forest or put nice grasses on the bottom would they just eat it or dig it up foraging? Are they aggressive towards other tank life if you keep them well fed?

last edited by StopShootingMe at 21:34:19 14/Sep/05

I should feed our turtle some of those, would be fun to watch =)

we put some sucker fish in there not long ago, he didn't eat them but played with them until they died =(

Actually, last two turtles I had were obliterated by the massive Red Devil I had at the time. I figured they were able to get out of the water and away from him so it shouldn't be a prob

He swam around an around trying to get et em out on their nice lil log until he somehow decided that if he sunk it, he could then stop them getting away from him..

I still remember him circling the log that morning thinking "wtf is up with this fish?" and not worrying about it anymore because I thought they'd be safe an could get away from him.

Anyway, by the time I got home from work that evening he'd dug the extra bit of gravel out from around the base of the log which then sunk the log below water level where he then proceeded to tear all the legs (and it's head) off one before wedging the other in so tight against the log before covering it in gravel it suffocated :(

They're pretty aggressive, but I'm told you can keep them with fish if the fish are big enough to brush them off ( guy i spoke to had kept them with large barra / saratoga ). Any plants they destroy pretty quick.

Usually you don't need to worry about them being a target for your fish ( unless you have super aggressive fish ... Hermi ).

Yeah, I was certainly surprised. Imagine how I had to explain it to my (then) fiance (didn't get married fortunately) at the time that my uber fish executed a brilliant tactical plan and obliterated here worthless mutant turtles..

Yeah, it came out wrong when I told her that time as well

nice story hermi but poor turtles :( i had a few turtles back as a kid as well but they were terrestial ones

Aren't they called Tortoises?

ahaha awesome watching

nice work

do a google for tiger pistol shrimp. they shoot a pulse of water, underwater that can kill and stun little things upto two meters away with this weird claw. apparently it reaches temperatures upto a million degrees at the point. amazing stuff :D.

linkies

lmnt

err, dude, that things not fresh water (it's Salt Water) and is more commonly known as a Mantis Shrimp

You DON'T have them in your tank as there is a very real chance that they will crack the glass. A mate bought some live rock one day and I was helping him position stuff in his tank when I got this god almighty WACK from a hammer on the inside of my finger.
I shat myself thinking "WTF, something just bit me in a salt water tank out of a rock!!"
When I looked closer to try an see what had possibly killed me (the whole thought of being bitten by something in a rock thats in salt water is pretty f***ing scary) and calmly freaking out about it I noticed it was a small Mantiss Shrimp.
It died soon after in my fresh water tank =)