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title: "This is my new “African Side-necked turtle”. It just get the biggest…"
description: "This is my new “African Side-necked turtle”. It just get the biggest kick out of his permanent smile 😊. I put plant hangers in the aquarium with pothos in…"
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community: "Anything about plants"
author: "MamaJuju"
published: "2023-08-27T03:34:36.306Z"
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# This is my new “African Side-necked turtle”. It just get the biggest…

_Posted by MamaJuju on 2023-08-27_

This is my new “African Side-necked turtle”. It just get the biggest kick out of his permanent smile 😊. I put plant hangers in the aquarium with pothos in just to help keep nitrates down now that we have two. Rosco is the painted turtle on the right, he’s about 12 and he’s a rescue. The African is a baby… l went in to the pet store to get supplies but that smile got me!!

All this to say the turtles knocked the pothos into the water and started taking huge chomps out of it like it was lettuce and I FREAKED! Pothos is poisonous! ☠️ I never thought anything of it because I’ve used it in fish tanks for years…Well evidently it’s not poisonous to reptiles! So I’m very grateful my friends are ok.

P.s. the baby doesn’t have a name and the store said it was too young to tell if it is male or female…can someone help me name it?! When I first saw it I thought of the Pokémon “Bulbasaur” right away but I’m not convinced…TIA 🐢🌿

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