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I live in South Texas in the Coastal Bend area about 20 miles from Corpus Christi. I have three RES all female in a 300 gal pond. My oldest is 6 years old and her name is "Sassy" the next one I got from my MIL's friend who found it in her back yard after a flood a few years ago and kept it in a 5 gal aquarium which she couldn't move around in. Took me a couple of years to convince her this was not a good environment for her. She had shell rot and her shell is pitted even to this day. I have no idea how old she is really. Just because she's was smaller than Sassy I think of her as younger. Her name is "Miss Turtle" (Miss T for short). And my third is about 2 years old. A relative found her when she was about 3" long and decided I needed another turtle! Her name is "Scooter". Since they removed her from where she was found, I was uncomfortable releasing her into a totally different environment, since she was so young. All seem healthy. We have no available turtle vet around here. I heard of one in Corpus, but cannot seem to find him. Besides my turtles, I have a gazillion guppies and swordtails in the pond, 5 comet goldfish the largest is 10" and the smallest is 6" long, and two plecos that are 15-17" long. I am also mommy to 9-11 cats depending on the day of the week. I tell everyone I claim 9 cats and 11 claim me. LOL I enjoy scrollsawing in my spare time.

Sounds like you have your hands full! I wish that we had good enough weather to have an outdoor pond year round.

I understand the cat thing, except around here it's dogs. We live on a hill off the road and people think that because we are away from the road and have a big house that they can dump dogs here. All it took was one pregnant, unhappy, unfriendly female to start the whole thing. We don't claim all of them either.

Anyway, welcome!

Lol! Thank you for the welcome! Yes, I have my hands full! Thank God I have a part-time job outside the home, and a very understanding husband! (I think it amuses him that I like animals so much!) I discovered by accident that my turtles love to eat roaches! You know, the Texas water roaches that get 2-3" long? Yuck. I swat them now, rinse off the cat hair and drop them (from a needle nosed plyers held at arms length) in the pond. The girls nearly drown each other getting to the tasty treat. (yuck, glad I don't kiss turtles!)