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Spike the Stinkpot

Brewster320

Brewster320

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Heres few pictures of my female stinkpot, Spike. My little brother was getting rid of his freshwater fish tank and was going to flush the chiclid done the toliet and I felt bad because I like chiclids and so I ended up with it. I it was in 5 gallon tank and it looked real pitiful there so I decided to grab a larger tank and put him in there with Spike. I had spike in with my painted but I don't think she liked it very much, and from what I've heard musks get along with fish unlike most other tutle so I tried my luck and so far they've been fine(its been like 3-4weeks). I've been thinking and think of upgrading to a bigger tank, making a paludarium, and adding more chiclids, any toughts on that? Also anyone know what species of chiclid this one is?

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Some sort of African cichlid for sure... they can be rather nasty, but I'm guessing size wise that one will ignore the stinkpot. Whether the turtle will follow along is anyones guess.

Can't wait til our little mud turtle gets big like that!!
 
Ya, this one my cousins actually caught in NH and brought it over my house. Would have rather brought one than take a fully grown adult out of the wild but shes become my favorite type of turtle thats for sure!

And when I first put the chiclid in with Spike it tried pull its "chiclid ways" on her but she completely ignored it and the chilid gave up. They both ignore each other now and since musks aren't really know for chasing down and killing fish like painteds and RES I figure they should be fine. We'll see.
 
I have some minnows (rosie reds) living with both my painted and my mud turtle. All are ignored by said turtles. Some have a stronger prey drive than others!
 
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Hypancistrus said:
I have some minnors (rosie reds) living with both my painted and my mud turtle. All are ignored by said turtles. Some have a stronger prey drive than others!
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Really? My painteds will chase any fish down as soon as I put them in and they are relentless! lol. Its nice i got atleast one turtle that doesn't like to eat fish, adds more variety to the tank.
 
What do stinkpots eat? I need some kind of new, small, native turtle that won't eat my killifish. Outside.
 
Nanci said:
What do stinkpots eat? I need some kind of new, small, native turtle that won't eat my killifish. Outside.
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They'll eat pellets and fish food and i think some people give them the algae pellets you give plecos. In the wild though they are scavengers that eat bugs, worms, crabs, crayfish, carrion, some water plants. They don't get big though, 5" is a huge stinkpot, and they'd rather walk than swim and like sitting in shallow water were they can breathe without a lot of effort. they don't bask alot either, usually, it depends on the turtle. When mine was in with the painteds it used to bask all the time.
 
I keep my stinker with a crayfish and some rosie reds. He would much rather NOM a pinkie than anything else!
 
looks kinnnnnda like my Jack Dempsey chichlids that I have but I'm not 100% sure becuase yours looks a little lighter blue than mine.
 
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