Feeding time.
Oatmeal and mealworms are on the menu.
Oatmeal and mealworms are on the menu.
Oatmeal Mealworm frenzy
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Says the video is private.....
Hmmm? I think I fixed it now. Thanks.
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I love the turtle -- grab it & run, er, swim away, fast as you can!
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It won't play for me, I see the picture but when you click to play it says private
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Me too, can't watch it.
Strange 
, the video setting keeps reverting to private after I change it to public. Hopefully it will stay set this time.
, the video setting keeps reverting to private after I change it to public. Hopefully it will stay set this time.
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Worked this time.
The fish seem to go after the worms after you let them go.
Where did you get the turtle from?
I can't find them here in Alberta.
The fish seem to go after the worms after you let them go.
Where did you get the turtle from?
I can't find them here in Alberta.
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What are the smaller, quicker fish with the dark stripe?
The quick fish are some kind of minnow (shiner). Exactly what their genus is I couldn't tell you. They are the first fish inhabitants of our pond. When I first started planting around the pond I was collecting some cattail roots from a local pond and noticed a school of some tiny 1/4" long fry in that pond so I netted a dozen or so out and put them in my pond. They have since grow and bred over the years and become a welcome inhabitant. Unlike the goldfish or koi, they tend to swim closer to the bottom of the pond, however they do feed on floating stuff on the surface by shooting up and jumping much the same way trout do. They are extremely quick too. If I throw fish pellets, or better yet a live insect, on the surface of the calm pond a minnow will quite often respond and take it in the same second. In fact we'll often see them rising on their own in the pond when hapless insects briefly land on the surface of the water.
The turtle is a Western painted turtle, apparently they do live in all the Western provinces, but only near the Southern border. I live 30 minutes from the boarder in Southern BC and practical every small body of water around here has a population of them.
The turtle is a Western painted turtle, apparently they do live in all the Western provinces, but only near the Southern border. I live 30 minutes from the boarder in Southern BC and practical every small body of water around here has a population of them.
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Great video!
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Possibly a Redside Shiner Richardsonius balteatus.
http://fieldguide.mt.gov/speciesDetail.aspx?elcode=AFCJB39010
http://fieldguide.mt.gov/speciesDetail.aspx?elcode=AFCJB39010
That sure looks like them, they definitely have that red coloring on their sides.