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Box Turtle Enclosure: Progression Thread
- Thread starter Nanci
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snakemom1961
Spring is here!
Ya know? If I had a backyard like that I don't think I'd EVER leave it. You have done an awesome job and to see the fauna that have come to enjoy it is spectacular. I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the purplish blue water lilly!!! Water lilies on a whole have to be one of the most beautiful plants, but that Blue one is a notch above the rest!
Thanks for sharing all of this with us Nanci, We all are thoroughly enjoying all your updates.
Thanks for sharing all of this with us Nanci, We all are thoroughly enjoying all your updates.
Nanci
Alien Lover
I'm so excited!!! I've had this lily as long as Tina and Alfred, and she has never bloomed, till tonight! This is Mrs. George C. Hitchcock, a night bloomer. I'll check on her when I leave for work in the morning. She may be open, if it doesn't rain all night. Supposedly, buy the third day, she will just stay open all day.
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Nanci
Alien Lover
I know, it's not big news, but my fig tree in Fort Tort finally has fruit. Tiny fruit. It's very boring out there. The blue dragonflies that drank wine with me every night are gone. Seasonal. The roseate skimmers that replaced them were not as abundant, and very skittish. I see one every once in a while. Frogs sing in the evening, when I've never had them before, ever. The sweet potato vine is growing like kudzu, and I am winding it decoratively around everything. It had its first bloom yesterday. There are baby evil Bahama anoles everywhere. I still have the native green anoles, too. I found a muskmare by accident while flinging a grass plant around to look for a turtle. The torts are seen more frequently than last summer. One of their clutchmates, owned by a friend of mine, died yesterday, with no apparent previous illness. They are kept indoors. I don't think that's healthy. But her torts all get annual checkups and fecals and ultrasounds and bloodwork, for $$$, at the university hospital where they were hatched, so? I wonder what happened. Hopefully they do a necropsy. The goldfish are slowly recovering from the hawk visit, but still won't come to the surface for food, which is too bad since their new $$$ organic really delicious-sounding food floats. They did sniff around my hands when I was removing yellow leaves out there, so I know they aren't afraid of me. I also got a thermometer installed, and the water temp is about 80F at the deepest part. I bought fall slow-down spring start-up food for the fish, to be ready. That's pretty much the news.
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tricksterpup
I has nuttin to Say.
Amazing!!!! down right Amazing. Thank you for posting pictures of the newts. LOL I need to order some of these guys from Paul this year. Those are some nice looking critters and would be cool if they bred for you in that pound. I bet you are going to get some tree frogs around there as well now due to the water.
Hmmm.. and this came the lady who said there were no tree frogs in her area.
Nanci
Alien Lover
An Exciting Find!!
I was plowing around through the tall grass plants in the Terra Pen looking for Fagalo when I found a surprise inhabitant! This froggy even sat there patiently while I ran inside to get the camera, and didn't move when I brushed the tall grass aside to get a couple pics! I have no idea what he is- I'm not familiar with Florida frogs. Up north, I'd call him a leopard or pickeral frog, something like that. Now this guy did not come here as a tadpole with waterlillies- it's not the same area at all. Where'd he come from??
I was plowing around through the tall grass plants in the Terra Pen looking for Fagalo when I found a surprise inhabitant! This froggy even sat there patiently while I ran inside to get the camera, and didn't move when I brushed the tall grass aside to get a couple pics! I have no idea what he is- I'm not familiar with Florida frogs. Up north, I'd call him a leopard or pickeral frog, something like that. Now this guy did not come here as a tadpole with waterlillies- it's not the same area at all. Where'd he come from??
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RobbiesCornField
Bring it on.
The sweet potato will take over EVERYTHING!!!! My parents have it in their yard, and it completely overtook the little island between the ponds and streams, and started choking off some of the streams. Granted, the largest sweet potato I pulled out (after the bloom) was close to 10 lbs, but these plants are EVIL!!!!!