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Animal Combinations; Mixed exhibits questions
Topic Started: Nov 23 2014, 09:51 PM (123,790 Views)
Uolym
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Doué-la-Fontaine keeps Black Rhino with Addra and Speke's Gazelles, Sacred Ibis and waterfowls, so it is possible to mix them. However, these are fast or flying smaller animals, with many places to escale is there is a need. And Anton is right : individuals from a species can show different behaviors.
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Ztlabraptor211
Feb 10 2016, 10:54 PM
Alligator snapping turtles commonly live in deep water. They're ambush predators and wait near the bottom. Due to this, fish that spend a lot of time near the surface wouldn't really be in harms way. I've seen snappers and common North American fish housed together many times
Yes, alligator snapping turtles can live in deep water, rivers, for example. But, rivers will help them move if they want to, and alligator snappers will always be near a tall object underwater when standing still, watch videos of people catching the turtles either in the swamp or near rivers. Besides, alligator snappers are more commonly found in swamps instead of rivers like you're referring to.

And yes, you can combine snappers with fish, but that doesn't mean they will be safe. It matters on your caring of the fish inside the enclosure. When at the Fort Worth Zoo in Texas, there was an exhibit with a 10 foot alligator and an average sized alligator snapping turtle. When the alligator was small he attacked the snapper and left a pretty bad dent on the turtles shell. A few years later, the alligator got four of his tail scutes bitten off. If an alligator snapper can bite through a alligator's almost bullet proof leather, it can bite through a fish. You say that there is a less likely chance that snappers will prey on fish in the cage than I thought, and you're right. But, snappers still need to breath, and so they must surface for air. They will realize that they can eat those fish up at the surface and may start to stay up there on a ledge or a log.

So in conclusion, you are right with them living in deep water also, and you are right with fish being housed in tanks with snappers. In the end though, snappers are still dangerous to fish, and if kept together, the owner will have to be fine with occasional casualties.
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Ztlabraptor211
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That's true, but it's not a frequent occurance and most other combinations will have occasional problems as well
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Snappers are also quite inactive compared to other turtles, so if you keep them well fed they probably won't be interested in hunting.
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I own a snapper. Sure, they are pretty inactive, but it is very hard to fill the stomach of a snapper without making them overweight.
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Ztlabraptor211
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Common or alligator? Both are extremely different
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A weird random guy.

Sorry for freaking out guys...

I hope I didn't freak you guys out :/
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Ztlabraptor211
Feb 13 2016, 08:04 PM
Common or alligator? Both are extremely different
Common. But even then I own a red eared slider and a western painted and they all have big appetites. My common snapper has the largest though which is about 1 pound of food for an 8 lbs turtle, and even with alligator snappers you have to feed them two or three large rats every week. Which could still be a lot of fish passing through the bowels.

And Charizard, i'm just passionately comparing notes. ;)
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What would you guys suggest for a mixed exhibit featuring Rhamphorhynchuses and other species? Time period and range doesn't matter
Edited by OwlParrot, Feb 14 2016, 04:08 PM.
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Moi
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لماذا ؟؟

Can I combine sulcata tortoises, egyptian tortoises(males only) and cattle egrets in an aviary ?
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I know this makes no sense which is why I wanna try it; could I make a combination exhibit with wombats and armadillo or pheasants and echidna ?
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Anton
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@Moy, yes

@Ztlab, first one I wouldn't do. Second I think could work, though. But as you already stated, they're extremely awkward.
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I love odd combinations xD Thanks for the info but why wouldn't armadillos and wombats work?
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Both are fossorial animals I guess, so there might be some territorial issues about burrows and such. Toronto Zoo has mixed Wombat with Échidna (and Wallaby) thought, and it works well. The Échidna has access to its own section if it needs privacy from the other animals.
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And wombats are well known to be very aggressive.
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Even Steve Irwin feared them.
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