{"id":778,"date":"2008-01-18T11:51:03","date_gmt":"2008-01-18T09:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/archives\/778"},"modified":"2008-01-18T11:51:03","modified_gmt":"2008-01-18T09:51:03","slug":"stelo-the-spoiled-brat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/archives\/778","title":{"rendered":"Stelo the Spoiled Brat"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s now been almost a year since we took Stelo home<\/a> and lost Cupid<\/a>.   When Cupid died I was really worried about Stelo but he really did seem a lot stronger from the beginning.   <\/p>\n

This is Stelo today!  Click on the photo to view it larger (looks better that way!)<\/p>\n

\"Stelo<\/a><\/p>\n

He has really grown!  He’s strong and healthy, eats like a little pig and I’m sure he knows how pretty he is.   He’s all like “Be sure to get me from my best side now!<\/em>”   <\/p>\n

I think it’s probably my fault though, for such a small turtle (only about 2 inches so far), he really does have a lot of room to himself.   He is already in a tank that is big enough for him at his adult size, so he has a ton of space.<\/p>\n

Check out Stelo’s palace, if you look you can see him on the basking area up top, he’s the little black round bit (again, it’s better to view it larger)<\/p>\n

\"Stelo<\/a><\/p>\n

He is in for a surprise though, once Phoenix<\/a> grows a little more he will be joining Stelo for a while, until he outgrows it.   At adult size (anywhere between 8-12 inches depending on gender) Phoenix will be approximately twice the size of Stelo (anywhere between 4-6 inches), so it wouldn’t be safe to leave them in the same tank.   Also, the tank just wouldn’t be big enough for them both.   <\/p>\n

I don’t know where Phoenix will go when he is full grown but I still have a few years to worry about that yet.<\/p>\n

Technorati Tags: Turtles<\/a>,Pets<\/a>,Aquarium<\/a>,Schildpadden<\/a>,Schildpad<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s now been almost a year since we took Stelo home and lost Cupid.   When Cupid died I was really worried about Stelo but he really did seem a lot stronger from the beginning.   This is Stelo today!  Click on the photo to view it larger (looks better that way!) He has really grown!  He’s …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-the-zoo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}