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    Looks like a small snapper!
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    Quote Originally Posted by BobC View Post
    Looks like a small snapper!
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    yes sir ,a common snapper , before anyone goes and gets all kinds of alligator snapper sideways about it in our aquarium .
    sure has what is quite common in them with a real bad boy attitude and a strike that will outpace lightning it seems .
    about the size of a chicken egg and around 1 year old , not a this year hatchling .
    our "pancake" turtle (aka softshell turtle ) that was in there grew up from hatchling to pancake size and got replaced with this one .
    it is amazing to see how large of a food item a tiny snapper can engulf in a single strike
    we are currently on a chicken innards diet supplemented with mosquito minnows and some crappie trimmings too ....
    it is totally deadly in the dark and reduces a live minnow population FAST .
    it managed to ketch the last rosey red in the aquarium that was about a year old and very turtle wise the first night !
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ketchn View Post
    and here is the new fish finder in the flesh , finds fish faster than a jack rabbit in rattlesnake country by golly
    Cool..... Are you feeding it live meat yet?
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    It will be munching on crappie minnows in no time
    The love for fishing is one of the best gifts you can pass along
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    Quote Originally Posted by SKs Crappie Catching Adventures View Post
    Cool..... Are you feeding it live meat yet?
    mosquito minnows about a dozen at a time , eats about 9 or 10 as soon as the sunsets , the other 2 or 3 make it about 1 or 2 more days , the goldfish that is in that tank is some kinda jumpy right now i tell ya .
    really tuned in fast to seeing humans and coming for food and begging , took it about 2 days to figure out who drops food in the tank
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    Funny how quickly they become accustomed to being fed
    The love for fishing is one of the best gifts you can pass along

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    Quote Originally Posted by DockShootinJack View Post
    Funny how quickly they become accustomed to being fed
    this is why we can't take them back to where we find them , they must go way remote from humans when we release them , otherwise they will be headless turtles in no time
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ketchn View Post
    this is why we can't take them back to where we find them , they must go way remote from humans when we release them , otherwise they will be headless turtles in no time
    Man, that’s the truth…they are an apex predator and about as foul tempered as they come. Fear isn’t in their DNA!
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    Quote Originally Posted by BobC View Post
    Man, that’s the truth…they are an apex predator and about as foul tempered as they come. Fear isn’t in their DNA!
    Bob
    the speed of the strike is just amazing , to watch one eat food ,with the kids is REALLY fun ,it never fails how the kiddos jump like they hit an electric fence on the strike
    my 9 year old and my grandson both had the same reaction ,oh look at the turtle , he is hungry and WHAM ! gone in one strike is the food at about 2 seconds faster than the speed of lightning
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    Yes, no doubt a good practical lesson. It won’t take long for them to connect the dots and realize that’s how fast a finger would disappear….
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