If you remember, the last time we met our turtles they were living in a huge glass ashtray with about 1cm of water, and a couple of stones to while away the hours.

Oh-ho how times have changed. We’ve now got them installed at Turtleham Palace- a spacious glass tank where they can swim freely in oceans of water, shape up their flippers in the gravel corner, and then chill out on a floating rock.

They certainly seem to like it. Last night we were cleaning the tank and when Emma tried to take one of them out, the other one bit her.

We’ve only got ourselves to blame for the biting though, instead of feeding them horrible dried up turtle food pellets, we’ve now got them on fresh (defrosted) juicy shrimp.

Feeding with the shrimp is good fun- if you just chop it up and put it in the water they will eventually eat it, but a better way is to stick a bit of meat on the end of a cocktail stick and then bob it through the water all innocent like until the Turtles hunt it down.

Have a look for yourselves:

If that video doesn’t work for you, here it is on YouTube.

For names, we’ve gone East / West, old and new, long and short. The darker toned, angry-looking one who is so edgy she jumps off the rock as soon as she hears a noise is Svetlana, whereas the dopier, chilled out fella is Kip.
Svetlana and Kip.

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