Hurtle and Myrtle

framerguy · 01-16-2008, 09:26 PM

Ya know how when your kids are little and they beg for a pet, and your like,"If we get this, YOU have to take care of it! I'm not gonna do it for you", and in the end...who takes care of it? That's right...you do.

Well, my daughter is 22, a senior in college, and last semester she was sure she had to have a pet of some kind at her apartment so she got two little turtles...Hurtle and Myrtle. The are very cute little guys. The green one (Myrtle) is a Cumberland Slider, I don't know what Hurtle is yet.

Well, she's gone back to school again and guess where the turtles are... .. still with me?... that's right! They're mine now.

They were in this little 10 gallon tank, with a bowl of water in the corner. They never moved much, just kind of sat around. I thought to myself there's something wrong here. I'll look these guys up...

It turns out they are aquatic turtles. I go to a local pet store that specializes in reptiles and Clint hooks me up with a basking light and a reptile filter. He says leave them in the 10g while they're little and tells me how to care for them, etc etc.

So I put water in the tank, to a depth double their shell length just like he said...and it's like I have new turtles. Hurtle, who had never opened his eyes that I saw was swimming around, crawling on rocks and asking to be handled, Myrtle wasn't far behind. I think, this is pretty cool. These guys are actually cute! Here's what they were in:

Well, a few days after I got them set up, I go behind our business to throw out trash and there at the dumpster is a 75 gallon aquarium waiting to be thrown away. It's got a crack in the bottom. So I take a piece of tempered glass I have, silicone the daylights out of it and lay it in the bottom, and resilicone all the joints (after removing the old stuff). I go to lowes and get two bags of river pebbles and two bags of play sand and now the turtle home looks like this:

It's built into the wall next to the SW tank. This was going to be the space for the new SW tank but now we are building a new house so this tank build was abandoned for the one in the new house. Now it's a turtle house. My next project for this tank is to use eggcrate, concrete and rock to build a rock wall for the back of the tank.

Here's Hurtle:

And here's Myrtle:

They are the cutest little rascals. Whenever I approach the tank they both come swimming and begging for food. They like krill..A LOT!

I hope you freshwater lovers don't mind having turtles in your forum..they are freshwater turtles after all. If anyone recognizes what Hurtle is, would you let me know?

Woodstock · 01-16-2008, 09:33 PM

Awwww.. they are so cute!

framerguy · 01-16-2008, 09:35 PM

Thanks Woody,.. I needed more additions to the managerie!

Dentoid · 01-16-2008, 09:35 PM

Ditto!

kathywithbirds · 01-16-2008, 09:55 PM

so cute! they look like sliders to me. The can eat those turtle pellets they sell at pet stores, might have more nutrition in it. Ours ate goldfish (got stinky though) and vitamin coasted flies. (dead ones, of course.)

nanoreefsrcool · 01-16-2008, 10:14 PM

i would definitly feed gold fish if you can you cant match the protein they get from them plus it is a more natural food source. when you feed pellets they develop a soft shell in my experence

good luck

PEMfish · 01-16-2008, 10:29 PM

Could be painted?

nanoreefsrcool · 01-16-2008, 11:44 PM

the one is a slider and the the other is a missippi map turtle

framerguy · 01-17-2008, 12:47 PM

Thanks Nano (it's Nick, right?), so the green one is a Cumberland Slider and the brown one is a Mississippi Map Turtle. Thanks again!

01-16-2008, 09:26 PM	#1 (permalink)
framerguy Golden Moray Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Mount Airy, Ga Posts: 2,924 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Hurtle and Myrtle Ya know how when your kids are little and they beg for a pet, and your like,"If we get this, YOU have to take care of it! I'm not gonna do it for you", and in the end...who takes care of it? That's right...you do. Well, my daughter is 22, a senior in college, and last semester she was sure she had to have a pet of some kind at her apartment so she got two little turtles...Hurtle and Myrtle. The are very cute little guys. The green one (Myrtle) is a Cumberland Slider, I don't know what Hurtle is yet. Well, she's gone back to school again and guess where the turtles are... .. still with me?... that's right! They're mine now. They were in this little 10 gallon tank, with a bowl of water in the corner. They never moved much, just kind of sat around. I thought to myself there's something wrong here. I'll look these guys up... It turns out they are aquatic turtles. I go to a local pet store that specializes in reptiles and Clint hooks me up with a basking light and a reptile filter. He says leave them in the 10g while they're little and tells me how to care for them, etc etc. So I put water in the tank, to a depth double their shell length just like he said...and it's like I have new turtles. Hurtle, who had never opened his eyes that I saw was swimming around, crawling on rocks and asking to be handled, Myrtle wasn't far behind. I think, this is pretty cool. These guys are actually cute! Here's what they were in: Well, a few days after I got them set up, I go behind our business to throw out trash and there at the dumpster is a 75 gallon aquarium waiting to be thrown away. It's got a crack in the bottom. So I take a piece of tempered glass I have, silicone the daylights out of it and lay it in the bottom, and resilicone all the joints (after removing the old stuff). I go to lowes and get two bags of river pebbles and two bags of play sand and now the turtle home looks like this: It's built into the wall next to the SW tank. This was going to be the space for the new SW tank but now we are building a new house so this tank build was abandoned for the one in the new house. Now it's a turtle house. My next project for this tank is to use eggcrate, concrete and rock to build a rock wall for the back of the tank. Here's Hurtle: And here's Myrtle: They are the cutest little rascals. Whenever I approach the tank they both come swimming and begging for food. They like krill..A LOT! I hope you freshwater lovers don't mind having turtles in your forum..they are freshwater turtles after all. If anyone recognizes what Hurtle is, would you let me know? __________________ ___________________________________ Greg All time fav quote: "Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy."-Guillaume Apollinaire "Being happy can be as easy as deciding to be!"-Greg Kimsey (framerguy) 75g Main, 55g Fuge w/DSB/+-25#LR, 25g Sump, turboflotor skimmer, 2x250w MH(9hrs/d), 4x65w PC(14h/d), 950gph mag drive/seaswirl return, 100# LR, 3" SB chronicles-akwareum (\___/) This is Bunny. (=O.o=) Copy and paste him into your signature (")__(") to help him gain world domination

01-16-2008, 09:33 PM	#2 (permalink)
Woodstock The Wand Geek was here. ;) Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: North Carolina Posts: 21,674 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: Hurtle and Myrtle Awwww.. they are so cute! __________________ ~Doni Marie~ *GOT ICH???* ~120 Reef Chronicle ~ *~29 gal QT/Hospital tank~* *~3 gal Pico~* "Energy and persistence conquer all things." Benjamin Franklin __________________________________________________ ______________________________________________ 120 mixed reef, dual Reeflux 10k 250 MH, dual Actinic t5s,AquaController III, ASM g3, 2x Korallia #3, Mag 9.5 return

01-16-2008, 09:35 PM	#3 (permalink)
framerguy Golden Moray Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Mount Airy, Ga Posts: 2,924 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: Hurtle and Myrtle Thanks Woody,.. I needed more additions to the managerie! __________________ ___________________________________ Greg All time fav quote: "Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy."-Guillaume Apollinaire "Being happy can be as easy as deciding to be!"-Greg Kimsey (framerguy) 75g Main, 55g Fuge w/DSB/+-25#LR, 25g Sump, turboflotor skimmer, 2x250w MH(9hrs/d), 4x65w PC(14h/d), 950gph mag drive/seaswirl return, 100# LR, 3" SB chronicles-akwareum (\___/) This is Bunny. (=O.o=) Copy and paste him into your signature (")__(") to help him gain world domination

01-16-2008, 09:35 PM	#4 (permalink)
Dentoid Over Achiever Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Virginia Posts: 9,592 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: Hurtle and Myrtle Ditto! __________________ Scott Dentoid's Reeforama

01-16-2008, 09:55 PM	#5 (permalink)
kathywithbirds You talkin ta ME? Join Date: May 2007 Location: Philly area, NJ Posts: 4,929 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: Hurtle and Myrtle so cute! they look like sliders to me. The can eat those turtle pellets they sell at pet stores, might have more nutrition in it. Ours ate goldfish (got stinky though) and vitamin coasted flies. (dead ones, of course.) __________________ (\__/) (\__/) (@.@) (^.^) (")_(") (< >)

01-16-2008, 10:14 PM	#6 (permalink)
nanoreefsrcool Midas Blenny Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 112 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: Hurtle and Myrtle i would definitly feed gold fish if you can you cant match the protein they get from them plus it is a more natural food source. when you feed pellets they develop a soft shell in my experence good luck __________________ 90 gallon Oceanic Tech waiting to be set up 48" Outer Orbit fixture (2)x 150w HQI (2)x 130w Actinic PC 10 Gallon Micro Reef 17lbs Fiji LR (2)x65 watt PC (one actinic, one 10,000k day bulb) 10lbs Carib-sea LS Filtration: Hagen 300gph HOB, Prizn HOB skimmer Flow: Maxi-Jet 400,aqua clear 10 Livestock: Green Clown Goby, hermits and turbo snails ANTI WALDO ANTI BIO BALLS ANTI CARRIBEAN BRISTLE WORM[/b]

01-16-2008, 10:29 PM	#7 (permalink)
PEMfish Reef Lobster Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Kane Co. Il. Posts: 1,634 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: Hurtle and Myrtle Could be painted? __________________ Paul `EM My cichlid tank plans, or Piranhas...; See how it all came to be; http://www.reefsanctuary.com/forums/...g-catchup.html http://www.reefsanctuary.com/forums/...ets-ready.html Make it idiot-proof and someone will make a better idiot. I'll make the whole damn world jealous if given the money to do so. Don't make mistakes and learn from them, read and learn how to avoid mistakes.

01-16-2008, 11:44 PM	#8 (permalink)
nanoreefsrcool Midas Blenny Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 112 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: Hurtle and Myrtle the one is a slider and the the other is a missippi map turtle __________________ 90 gallon Oceanic Tech waiting to be set up 48" Outer Orbit fixture (2)x 150w HQI (2)x 130w Actinic PC 10 Gallon Micro Reef 17lbs Fiji LR (2)x65 watt PC (one actinic, one 10,000k day bulb) 10lbs Carib-sea LS Filtration: Hagen 300gph HOB, Prizn HOB skimmer Flow: Maxi-Jet 400,aqua clear 10 Livestock: Green Clown Goby, hermits and turbo snails ANTI WALDO ANTI BIO BALLS ANTI CARRIBEAN BRISTLE WORM[/b]

01-17-2008, 12:47 PM	#9 (permalink)
framerguy Golden Moray Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Mount Airy, Ga Posts: 2,924 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: Hurtle and Myrtle Thanks Nano (it's Nick, right?), so the green one is a Cumberland Slider and the brown one is a Mississippi Map Turtle. Thanks again! __________________ ___________________________________ Greg All time fav quote: "Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy."-Guillaume Apollinaire "Being happy can be as easy as deciding to be!"-Greg Kimsey (framerguy) 75g Main, 55g Fuge w/DSB/+-25#LR, 25g Sump, turboflotor skimmer, 2x250w MH(9hrs/d), 4x65w PC(14h/d), 950gph mag drive/seaswirl return, 100# LR, 3" SB chronicles-akwareum (\___/) This is Bunny. (=O.o=) Copy and paste him into your signature (")__(") to help him gain world domination

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