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ScratchTheTurtle View Profile |
Turtle Expenses
First - Tank and stands - Two tanks... the 30 gallon tank I bought when she was small and the 90 gallon I have now- $1300 Filters - for both tanks - $350 lighting - $65 basking - PVC Pipe platform and plexi now, two Zoo Med docks before (they are algae magnets, and my turtle ate them) $90 Food - cost varies... greens, carrots, pellets, frozen green blocks, blood worms, feeder minnows... they all add up after time.. who knows what I’ve spent! Extras - water vacuum, river rock, water cond, hose, water conditioner, cuttle bone, vet visits/checkups, etc... over $300 easy I’ve only had her a year... I bought her when she was 4" long, and I’ve not regretted it... I just thought you should know what you’re getting into= I’ve spent, according to this list, over $2100 on this pet. You could go cheaper with Rubbermaid tanks, etc. but they don’t look as nice in my living room. Thanks for reading and please don’t do it unless you’re willing to do it right.
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| 05/13/08 11:25am |
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Mikeornata View Profile |
Message To: ScratchTheTurtle In reference to Message Id: 1733982
The audacity to spend 2100.00 on a 12.00 turtle........ priceless!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I got an even cheaper idea spend about a grand on an outdoor enclosure/pond that your turtles can live in year round. It requires far less maintenance and is much more natural than a glass tank. It is much more enjoyable to add plants and landscape your own outdoor turtletopia. My turtles/tortoises come inside when they absoultely need to. Besides turtles thrive outdoors. However I do realize that some people dont have a backyard. So sad. Mike D. |
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| 05/13/08 01:12pm |
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ScratchTheTurtle View Profile |
Message To: Mikeornata In reference to Message Id: 1734063 Turtle Expenses
Dude... do you come here just to step on people? I wonder how many times I’ve seen you do it before... My back yard doesn’t belong to me. I rent a house... I didn’t want a pet that I barely see in a pond - and my dad has a pond.. the maintenance is crazy, and cost him a fortune to build. And, guess what... my turtle is thriving... Get off your high horse and stop being a self entitled jerk. |
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| 05/13/08 01:59pm |
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Mikeornata View Profile |
Message To: ScratchTheTurtle In reference to Message Id: 1734088
Ok maybe I should learn to be more selfish, and box all my animals up in glass tanks for my own enjoyment without regard to their welfare. I was making a joke with the "priceless" thing, you know the Mastercard commercials?, I wasnt trying to be a smiley...just funny. Sorry you’re so dang sensitive. I rent my house too, and my landlady loves my pond. It added value to her house. And another thing... I dont see many people getting useful advice in this forum. Someone asks a valid question, we all harp on them, then start arguing with each other. Nobody gets advice it just turns into a pissing contest. From now on I will direct all questions about care to a very useful and informitive site chelonia . org. Its a non profit organization dedicated to presrving and protecting turtle and tortoise species worldwide. Mike D. |
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| 05/13/08 02:16pm |
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ScratchTheTurtle View Profile |
Message To: Mikeornata In reference to Message Id: 1734091 Turtle Expenses
Be careful what words you choose... starting with words with negative connotations like audacity automatically make a person defensive. Just so you know... the "selfish" remark you made still seems self righteous. I hope that’s what you’re going for... |
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| 05/13/08 02:42pm |
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Mikeornata View Profile |
Message To: ScratchTheTurtle In reference to Message Id: 1734115
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| 05/13/08 05:26pm |
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JAMEE View Profile |
Message To: Mikeornata In reference to Message Id: 1734313
Jamee |
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| 05/18/08 08:27pm |
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TurtleBites View Profile |
Message To: JAMEE In reference to Message Id: 1739537 Turtle Expenses
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| 05/19/08 07:10pm |
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Amphibiandude View Profile |
Message To: TurtleBites In reference to Message Id: 1740464 Turtle Expenses
i should write a mission statement for this place |
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| 05/20/08 09:50am |
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Amphibiandude View Profile |
Message To: Amphibiandude In reference to Message Id: 1741133 Turtle Expenses
only we can start the fire of reconstruction thank you sorry it kind of turned into a motivational speech |
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| 05/20/08 10:45am |
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Reptilefreak23 View Profile |
Message To: Amphibiandude In reference to Message Id: 1741162 Turtle Expenses
I have never seen you post anything over 2 sentences!!!! I GOT to get you a present |
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| 05/20/08 11:31am |
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Mikeornata View Profile |
Message To: Reptilefreak23 In reference to Message Id: 1741204
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| 05/20/08 08:13pm |
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Gottee guy View Profile |
Message To: Mikeornata In reference to Message Id: 1741693 Turtle Expenses
in addition to that huge run on paragraph don’t buy any wood that is not from a man-controlled forest (ie. don’t buy mohagony or rosewood from Brazil) and don’t buy or take any wild animals unless under a certified permit that IS approved by environmentalists or fish and game.don’t move on a habitat on a forest or a swamp, especially if an endangered animal lives there and use clean burning fossil fuils, or even better, renewable fuels eccept for biomass because it causes too much Co2 that destroys ozone in the mesosphere and stratosphere thus causing global warming to intensify the killing of large numbers of coral reefs that are home to millions of sea creatures that may one day benefit us by finding the cure for cancer and other related disease that affect the heart and destroy tissues of the homo sapien. yeah, this affects turtles too. |
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| 05/20/08 08:59pm |
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Amphibiandude View Profile |
Message To: Gottee guy In reference to Message Id: 1741764 Turtle Expenses
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| 05/21/08 08:20am |
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Amphibiandude View Profile |
Message To: Gottee guy In reference to Message Id: 1741764 Turtle Expenses
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| 05/21/08 08:25am |
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Reptilefreak23 View Profile |
Message To: Amphibiandude In reference to Message Id: 1742116 Turtle Expenses
that was powerfull... man thats usually me..... you away from repticzone... "huvinsnavinwinkleglucunsfielvistutinis fugu blub bluub blub blub .......GOLDFISH!" "Tell me you see all the circles in the sky.........HEY LOOK THAT ONES A TRIANGLE!" I am happy for yall who dont know him away from repticzone ...... (im his best friend and herpotology field partner) |
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| 05/21/08 08:41pm |
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Mikeornata View Profile |
Message To: Reptilefreak23 In reference to Message Id: 1742729
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| 05/21/08 08:55pm |
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Mikeornata View Profile |
Message To: Mikeornata In reference to Message Id: 1742749
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| 05/22/08 02:02am |
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Gottee guy View Profile |
Message To: Mikeornata In reference to Message Id: 1742917 Turtle Expenses
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| 05/22/08 07:36am |
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Amphibiandude View Profile |
Message To: Gottee guy In reference to Message Id: 1742978 Turtle Expenses
if you do what you hate to live then you arent living at all but if you do what you love then you are truly living for to gain your life you must lose it for we are not eternal and only have one chance at this life. |
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| 05/22/08 08:29am |
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Mikeornata View Profile |
Message To: Amphibiandude In reference to Message Id: 1743006
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| 05/22/08 09:25pm |
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Reptilefreak23 View Profile |
Message To: Mikeornata In reference to Message Id: 1743650 Turtle Expenses
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| 05/25/08 05:52pm |
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Gottee guy View Profile |
Message To: Reptilefreak23 In reference to Message Id: 1746147 Turtle Expenses
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| 05/25/08 07:46pm |
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Gottee guy View Profile |
Message To: Gottee guy In reference to Message Id: 1746272 Turtle Expenses
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| 05/25/08 07:49pm |
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Reptilefreak23 View Profile |
Message To: Gottee guy In reference to Message Id: 1746278 Turtle Expenses
but yeah.. that is a BIG change of subject. ... but not a surprising one though. |
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| 05/25/08 09:00pm |
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Ballpythongirl View Profile |
Message To: Reptilefreak23 In reference to Message Id: 1746355 Turtle Expenses
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| 05/26/08 11:49am |
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Amphibiandude View Profile |
Message To: Ballpythongirl In reference to Message Id: 1746872 Turtle Expenses
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| 05/26/08 09:00pm |
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Amphibiandude View Profile |
Message To: Amphibiandude In reference to Message Id: 1747496 Turtle Expenses
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| 06/11/08 12:32pm |
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Gottee guy View Profile |
Message To: Amphibiandude In reference to Message Id: 1757883 Turtle Expenses
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| 06/11/08 01:58pm |
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