Dear "lovetropicals",
I see you have only just joined GWA.
As you haven't registered an option for receiving private e-mails, the only way for other members to contact you at present, is publicly in this forum.
If you are a genuine poster, then you will like to know there is a great deal of information available by using search facilities on your computer, and guiding you to specialist groups.
I don't know what area of Australia you live in, but the keeping of turtles may be subject to restriction, or licensing, in your state.
As such, if you acquired your pet from an authorised supplier rather than from the wild (which is not permitted) then I'm sure that person or store would have given you some
information about on-going care.
There are some excellent sites in Australia for enthusiasts
I post here, some links
http://www.burkesbackyard.com.au/2001/archives/2001_archives?p=1194
http://members.optusnet.com.au/~expansa1/links.html
Having no personal experience I would not want to comment on the vegetative diet you have been recommended, but water lettuce, if by that name you mean the plant botanically called Pistia stratiotes, is a weed and declared pest in some
states of Australia. A sample fact sheet is at
http://www.dpi.qld.gov.au/documents/Biosecurity_EnvironmentalPests/IPA-Water-Lettuce-PP19.pdf That plant seems to escape from ponds and can generate from a mere leaf. To think that someone would offer rare seeds in exchange seems a little illogical for a plant which is a weed in other parts of Australia. As to the rare seeds, well anyone needs to consider the viability of what they are taking, and the end result of what they are growing. I am a little doubtful about this post being genuine but then again you never know. If I'm wrong I apologise and will hope to gently assist the writer, in the right direction in this gardening fellowship. A |
