Sidney Crosby The Red-eared Slider

Well I'll be damned! Winter has arrived in Newfoundland!!
What's new with Sidney?
To all Turtle lovers please send me lots of e-mail.

Hello Fellow Chelonians. I am Sidney, a Red-eared slider. My owner gave me a 2nd name so I consider myself to be quite unique. Mother nature called me Trachemys scripta elegans; I ca-rum-ba! I have trouble pronouncing it myself and I am the turtle!

I weigh about 2 pounds and spend most of my day in my aquarium swimming happily. I am still camera shy as you can see. When I was with my previous owner I was not treated very well. I was kept in the dark most of time, was malnourished, and did not even have claws. But after being taken care of by my new owner I have since grown claws, the spots on my shell have disappeared and I am now much healthier. I also had to learn how to swim as most of the time I had to waddle around the bottom of the tank; the water level was not high enough for me to swim like a turtle should.

My main diet is Nurtrafin Turtle Pellets but my favorite snack foods are chicken and pork-chop. I do not much care for veggies and turned up my nose at romaine lettuce, banana, carrot, cabbage and other fruits and veggies. And live fish are a SUPER TREAT! I chase them down with wild abandon. Gobble-Gobble-Gobble! It is tiring work but is well worth the taste of fresh fish; quite a delectable dish. A turtle fav!

I have my own e-mail address at sidneycrosby@nl.rogers.com but find it difficult to answer as my claws are too big to type. The water in the tank slows down the Internet connection so my owner answers all my mail on my behalf.

I have two canine friends in Singapore, Eddie & Chester. Eddie is a Jack Russell Terrier & Chester is a Wire Fox Terrier.

This website is a personal site and it is not for sale!

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