Snapping Turtle Hand Feeding

Hand feeding a common snapping turtle. I released him back into the wild soon after this video. I still have all my fingers.

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[coutterboy]

so i got a common baby snapping turtle and im going to hold on to him for awhile, how often do you feed him? and how small did you first get him and how often did you feed him? cuz i really want to make sure he survives

[parisauburn]

@coutterboy I just fed him once a day, they will eat about as much as you can give them so you want to make sure not to overfeed them. Mine was a hatchling when I found him, they grow relatively fast, but a 29 gal (what mine is) will last them at least 3 years. I let mine go soon after this because he had already outgrown the tank. They are very hardy creatures though, and usually have no problem adapting to captivity. Also its good to vary their diet with crickets, minnows, and turtle pellets.

[Creekwalker420]

nicely done sir.. how long did you keep him? i am trying to keep a hatchling for a few years. hopefully until about the size of this one. nice tank and war eagle.

[parisauburn]

I had him from a hatchling for probably about three or four years, there extremely easy to keep. Just don't keep anything smaller than him in there or it could dissappear. I also had a few smaller Stripe-necked musk turtles in the tank with him at one time but he decapitated one of them and I had to remove the others before it was too late for them as well. WAR EAGLE!!!!!

[Durzen98]

ELLIS FROM LFD2

[ddog12921996]

You shouldnt be hand feeding your turtles. They start to associate your hand with food and will bite you.

[007gametester]

And they should live up to 12 years...

[007gametester]

Also if you collect rocks, only get the ones without algae, and from higher mountains, far from the city, and only from small snow water streams. preferably not from a forest, (pine forests are ok). And when you are home first wash them with water and chlorine, after then wash it at least 3 times under fresh water, and after then boil them, because you don't want to put any bacteria or virus in your terrarium.

[007gametester]

So fast flowing water is not good, but you still need a top notch filtration, so a filter is not enough, you will need a NOT low quality canister. And as I said big leaf plants. As for it's food It is important to give a variety of food each weak! You have to switch day to day, that is the healthiest. It will need for a healthy life style fish (alive is better, they can sharpen their natural instinct, mammal, bird meat (no spices, or flavoring, it cant digest it right), and for vitamins etc.

[007gametester]

And if you have a special heat lamp then it should be only over the island (dry land). And it should heat only half of the island, if you don't want to burn it. As for the water get a heater that you can place under rocks and gravel, because these turtles can break the glass heaters, and it can hurt itself with it. Also for a this size turtle you WILL NEED a water canister, and get only the right size for the amounts of gallons that you have, because they like swamps, or stagnant water the most.