Southern Painted Turtles

[Nafun]

After dealing with my sister's turtles, and the turtles of my wife's coworker, I got the bug. I had turtles as a kid, and decided I just had to have some.

I found them in the kingsnake classifieds, they're captive bred and a lot smaller than I was expecting. I didn't expect them to be legal length, but I expected at least plausible deniability. They're smaller than quarters, so I'm keeping them for educational purposes. I'll begin training them in ninjitsu on monday.

There are five of them in total (one is very easily spooked and always leaps into the water when he sees me coming.) but the picture only shows four. One of them has only a stub of a tail. I don't know if it's a birth defect, or if it was bitten off before he arrived.

Their names are Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, Donatello, and Yertle. Not original, but I can't tell them apart anyway and it's better than calling them "turtle".

I've got them in a sterilite tub for now, I have a waterland tub coming tomorrow. Will post more pictures when they're in their final habitat.