Platinum Florida Snapping Turtle
Juveniles freely forage for food while adults prefer to be ambush predators lying in wait for the next passing meal.
Platinum florida snapping turtle. Common snapping turtles are true omnivores and will eat anything they can fit into their mouths. It s a 100 pound alligator snapping turtle. Hybrids can be good community turtles. Three monster sized suwannee alligator snapping turtles discovered recently in north florida were not harmed in any way according to the florida fish and wildlife conservation commission.
These tendencies make all sizes excellent tank turtles. Don t forget food for your new turtle. A suwannee alligator snapping turtles caught for research purposes facebook fwc fish and wildlife research institute pictures of three turtles found in the new river florida have gone viral. The only real difference between florida and common snapping turtles is soft spikes on the neck and head called turbercles.
They re excellent swimmers and do well in mostly water tanks with plants and other under water obstructions. If you hatch 10 000 florida snappers each year you may notice that one out of every few hundred comes out very light and silvery platinum colored so we put them aside saved them for you. Florida snapping turtles chelydra serpentina osceola are found only in peninsular florida where they live the typical snapper s life at the bottom of their pond or lake buried in the mud waiting for their next meal to pass by. Their behavior diet and care is similar to florida or spiny softshells and follows.
Hybrid softshells are a true rarity. Its snout is more pointed than that of a common snapper. Chelydra serpentina osceola category. Researchers from the florida fish and wildlife conservation commission captured the rambunctious prehistoric looking reptile near gainesville fla.
In florida it gives way to the florida snapping turtle. According to wpec tv the florida fish. Very few breeders have been able to cross florida and spiny to produce these offspring that look like a mixture of both species. A 100 pound suwannee alligator snapping turtle was among three of the massive reptiles recently captured in florida researchers said.
The florida snapping turtle has powerful jaws and strong neck muscles and it can extend its beak around to the side at least half the length of its shell carapace.
