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| Tweet Topic Started: May 27 2011, 01:03 PM (152 Views) | |
| Its Just Don | May 27 2011, 01:03 PM Post #1 |
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Here's what I did today and one of the reasons I had to come home from Denny's. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcxH6-cCK10 DP |
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| whisper | May 27 2011, 08:27 PM Post #2 |
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Don do you still have the Blue Gill in there? |
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| Its Just Don | May 27 2011, 09:23 PM Post #3 |
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Bluegill floated to the surface by the floating heater in January. :'( From what I've read, their lifespan is just 5 to 6 years and he was in the pond nearly that long. I will miss him. |
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| frogman3 | May 28 2011, 04:03 PM Post #4 |
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Don I'm amazed your turtles are that tame that they let the kids get that close. Are they all that way? |
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| whisper | May 28 2011, 06:03 PM Post #5 |
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Sorry to hear about Old Gilly. |
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| Its Just Don | May 28 2011, 06:24 PM Post #6 |
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At the beginning of each year, they will all jump in the water and hide when anyone comes near the pond, but it doesn't take them long to get used to us being around and associating people with food being put in the pond. Then they seem to remember that people at the pond edge means a free handout and they come right up to you. Not all of them are that tame. The Western Painted are much more friendly than the RES, which always are a little skittish. It's strange how even the babies that I raise in an aquarium for two years will dive to the bottom of the pond and hide when people approach for several weeks after being put in the pond. Then they gradually get more friendly, although some never do and continue to run and hide. |
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