Pond Boss Forums INTRO Questions & Observations Snapping turtle removal?

Ken that is a hilarious story!


The redears and painted turtles are hound dogs during feeding time, it's unbelievable how fearless they have become after two weeks of feeding. They follow me all over the pond.

I think I have the snapping turtle problem figured out. It is a female and she laid a nice clutch of eggs along the shoreline bank. It appears that the raccoons and other critters are all of them! I found the snapping turtle in the same spot today but this time she was laying next to my BG beds devouring fresh FA blooms! I figure she can hang out a while and eat all the curly leaf and FA she wants to regain strength. She had to have come a decent distance to the pond as my outlet creek is a mile up a steep river bluff from the flooded Mississippi and the trek from my neighbors pond is pretty treturois as well. I've heard that when the river is flooded as it is now that all species of turtles have a hard time finding egg laying habitat and tend to venture greater distances than normal.

I will post some pictures tomorrow but she let me get extremely close while she was browsing through the FA. My bluegills are spawning at such a high rate that I doubt the turtles eating eggs has any impact on their production.