{"id":491,"date":"2006-09-22T07:31:07","date_gmt":"2006-09-22T05:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/archives\/491"},"modified":"2006-09-22T07:34:45","modified_gmt":"2006-09-22T05:34:45","slug":"turtle-yoga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/archives\/491","title":{"rendered":"Turtle Yoga"},"content":{"rendered":"

Usually the turtles will slide off their basking spot if they see you coming.  That’s how they got their name… sliders.  Frick! is a Yellow Belly Slider and Radar is a Red Ear Slider.  They bask in the sun (or under a heat lamp in this case) and if they see anyone coming they just slide off into the water.<\/p>\n

Last night though, Frick! let me get close enough to take a photo of him doing his turtle yoga under the light. <\/p>\n

\"Turtle<\/a><\/center> <\/p>\n

 He obviously was keeping a very close eye on me, to make sure I wasn’t up to no good, but it definately shows that he is getting more used to having me around. <\/p>\n

The other night I noticed Radar trying to bite him. That worried me quite a lot as I know RES turtles can get sort of aggressive at times. I’ve posted on a few different turtle forums asking advice. Some have suggested that we seperate them, which isn’t really an option as we don’t have another tank. <\/p>\n

If it continues we are going to have no choice but to take Radar back where we got him and keep Frick! alone. Which isn’t a problem for Frick!, as it turns out turtles are more solitary than social. It would be a problem for me though, I really like Radar too, although I do like him slightly less whenever I see him picking on Frick!. <\/p>\n

Time will tell!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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