Ken's Deputy 4,462 Posted November 9, 2021 Report Share Posted November 9, 2021 Looked in at my Common Snapper, just now. I'm always looking at him. He's great Nine inch shell now. I'm not trying to feed him big. Noticed something along the front edge of his shell though. Between his head and his legs. Looked like dead shell 'skin', from his gradual growing. I find that in the water and net it out. Thought, he looks happy enough. Maybe I can just sneak my hand in there and pluck that off? First thing I noticed was how far down my hand was going. The water fools the eye. It's a lot deeper than it appears. Second thing I noticed was the almost imperceptible shift in his head and neck. He was tracking that hand. At the same time, subtly sliding his jaws closer to alignment. Fukker was gonna take my finger off!!! I withdrew my hand. Turtle's like: 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
THE STIFFMEISTER 17,356 Posted November 9, 2021 Report Share Posted November 9, 2021 Leave jobs like that to the professionals , like ken 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ken's Deputy 4,462 Posted November 9, 2021 Author Report Share Posted November 9, 2021 True. I think, if Ken put his hand in there? Turtle'd feel cheated! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Greyman 32,113 Posted November 9, 2021 Report Share Posted November 9, 2021 You should be using your feet 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
gnipper 6,826 Posted November 9, 2021 Report Share Posted November 9, 2021 45 minutes ago, Greyman said: You should be using your feet The snapper would be ill if them trotters went in its water. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
green lurchers 17,103 Posted November 9, 2021 Report Share Posted November 9, 2021 6 hours ago, Ken's Deputy said: Looked in at my Common Snapper, just now. I'm always looking at him. He's great Nine inch shell now. I'm not trying to feed him big. Noticed something along the front edge of his shell though. Between his head and his legs. Looked like dead shell 'skin', from his gradual growing. I find that in the water and net it out. Thought, he looks happy enough. Maybe I can just sneak my hand in there and pluck that off? First thing I noticed was how far down my hand was going. The water fools the eye. It's a lot deeper than it appears. Second thing I noticed was the almost imperceptible shift in his head and neck. He was tracking that hand. At the same time, subtly sliding his jaws closer to alignment. Fukker was gonna take my finger off!!! I withdrew my hand. Turtle's like: Little cnt needs a Bbq swiftley 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mackem 29,696 Posted November 21, 2021 Report Share Posted November 21, 2021 Saw dozens of them over the years when sitting quietly beside water, seen them hunting ducks etc, you can buy traps for them, a bit like eel nets. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ken's Deputy 4,462 Posted November 21, 2021 Author Report Share Posted November 21, 2021 Fukkin Love my one, Mackem! In fact, as you were posting, I was just sat here, day dreaming about mitre angles and doors. Sort of things that fill my head. In the last legs of getting a major project here finished. My kitchen cupboard. Then, I intend to lash out the furnishing of my turtles tank, before going back into the kitchen and targeting doors Shit ton of painting notwithstanding? I actually wonder if I could have his tank finished this year? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mackem 29,696 Posted November 21, 2021 Report Share Posted November 21, 2021 How much did it cost, and where did you buy it? Unusual pet. The first one I ever saw, I was watching a muskrat feeding when I saw the silt and weed move below the surface then as its outline cleared "Holy s**t, its a f***ing snapper turtle" 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ken's Deputy 4,462 Posted November 22, 2021 Author Report Share Posted November 22, 2021 They're generally available, if anyone's looking for one. No regulations or shit. Usually come as hatchlings. Or any size from about the six to eight inch mark, once the usual fukking idiots realise just what that that impulse purchase of a 50p piece sized baby has actually lumbered them with. Thirty, forty years ago? Hatchling, at a convention, could cost a fiver. Five years ago? My one, a bare hatchling himself, cost me £80.00, in a pet shop. Fukkin love him! (Or her? Never really bothered to try and work that out. Doesn't matter) Be even better, once this 'cage' is made. I'll be lowering the walls of the IBC, making him all the more casually visible. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mackem 29,696 Posted June 4, 2022 Report Share Posted June 4, 2022 Spoke to a guy yesterday, he saw a snapper a few years ago actually grab and drown a drake mallard in a lake. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ken's Deputy 4,462 Posted June 4, 2022 Author Report Share Posted June 4, 2022 Absolutely! And why ever not? Funny; I've actually just wandered in, from working outside. Looked in at Snape ~ in his flash new home! ~ He looked at me and I said; " Feed ye again tonight, Snape. " Fukker's on a day old chick about every two days now. And he Always acts like I'm starving him! Even at his size ~ and I just got a pretty fair measurement of 9" of shell length ~ he'd give a duck nightmares. I'm not interested in seeing what he could do to larger things. I'm the one that'd have to clean the pond and filter afterwards. With the chicks, he just shits a bit of dust and two feet (!) every now and then. I net it out and save the filter 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mackem 29,696 Posted June 4, 2022 Report Share Posted June 4, 2022 5 minutes ago, Ken's Deputy said: Absolutely! And why ever not? Funny; I've actually just wandered in, from working outside. Looked in at Snape ~ in his flash new home! ~ He looked at me and I said; " Feed ye again tonight, Snape. " Fukker's on a day old chick about every two days now. And he Always acts like I'm starving him! Even at his size ~ and I just got a pretty fair measurement of 9" of shell length ~ he'd give a duck nightmares. I'm not interested in seeing what he could do to larger things. I'm the one that'd have to clean the pond and filter afterwards. With the chicks, he just shits a bit of dust and two feet (!) every now and then. I net it out and save the filter Yup, the guy I spoke to actually saw a snapper crossing a road last week, when he saw the duck/snapper tussle the duck was flapping on the surface, at first he thought a mink had it till he saw the turtle below the surface Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ken's Deputy 4,462 Posted June 4, 2022 Author Report Share Posted June 4, 2022 What an Adorable picture, Katch! That really just somehow typifies a Snapper! 'Leave me alone? I'll leave you alone. I'll just walk around with a fukking great sod on my back. Not caring.' I love 'em! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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