Help snapping turtle!!

[polypterus101]

So i'm walking to my garage and i see this weird little thing shuffling around on my lawn. I go closer and i find an upsidedown baby snapping turtle. I then get a jolt when it stops moving. I take it inside and put in an old 20g and then it flips over and starts swimming again. My question is what to feed it and what size ttank i should buy for it?

 

[Squawkbert]

Put it back in the nearest pond/lake/muck hole around. Any other action will result in a chain of events ending in tears.

 

[Dangerdoll]

I agree, bring it to the closest watering hole outside, these guys are way too much to handle in home aquaria. When it is too big for you to handle, you will try placing it outside and it will be too late for him. He won;t know how to fend for himself and find his meals.

 

[bettagurl]

I agree^^
these guys get HUGE, and unless your willing to spend 30+ years taking care of a monster you should release him
also, if you were to slip up while cleaning its cage you would be missing a large chunk of somewhere.
I just caught one about 16"+ a few days ago, they have bad tempers..this guys cut through a 2" piece of wood like it was nothing.
also they are very strong.
GL with him!

 

[dbcb314]

God throw it back outside haha.

When these thing grow... they get big, scary, and stinky lol.

 

[Firebelly__girl]

My dad finds these in the roads about to be road kill all the time going to work. He usualy sets up a baby pool for them and lets us play with him for a while and watch him, later that day he takes them to a pond around our house. Once we were fishing and a huge snapper stuck his head up and was stareing at us, my dad swears it was the snapper we released a few years ago "saying hi and thank you" That thing was about a foot and a half wide from one side to his shell to the other when we released him..

 

[darkcirca]

I found one of these the other day as well. After hearing the story about the snapping turtle biting the broom stick in half today from my family I am glad I put him back at the pond. I'd hate to put my hand in the tank to clean and it take a bite out of it.

 

[ITHURTZ]

Iv kept these before. They will eat alot of things. When I had the baby ones put some fish flakes on the water and they will eat it. I would like to get one again, they are fun.

 

[bettagurl]

they love guppies too..

 

[ITHURTZ]

guppies, goldfish, your fish they dont care:coffee2: