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Tonight I saw a small snapping turtle swimming around and eating fishfood off the surface.Do you guys see this often?....Joe
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My tadpoles and bullfrogs love it....I always thought turtles were cleaning up my pond bottom. Hopefully painted turtles.
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I've seen the painted turtles doing that, but the snappers are too shy.
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My snappers will surface in my daily feeding area if I stand there and talk. They know it is time to feed and will readily feed on pellets thrown to them, I mean one pellet at a time, shy is not in their vocabulary here, my painted turtles are the same way, but they dive every time I move to pitch them a pellet.
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It is a snapping turtle not a painted turtle...After seeing this its got me wondering about frogs and even watersnakes.....
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Yep, I've got three large snappers that always swim over and gobble up pellets on the surface. The painters have started to join them.
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Live and let live! 
If pigs could fly bacon would be harder to come by and there would be a lot of damaged trees.
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my snappers are shy. they visit the feeder pretty often at the late evening feeding. you have to stand still though or they will scoot!!
Scott Hanners
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I wouldn't worry about a single small snapper. Consider him/her to be your sanitary manager. If you had three or four really large ones, then I'd think about doing some thinning.
Ken
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