My Pets

    Let me introduce you to all my pet animals. I have 9 turtles, 2 crested geckos, a few aquariums full of fish, and I recently got a monitor lizard. As you can probably tell I love animals and always have, it's been my dream to have a lot of animals and I plan to get more in the future. I got my turtles first, I started off with just 2 of them, who I named Donatello and Leonardo. Then as a year went by I found out the Leonardo was a girl so I named her Lili instead, which was a surprise.

    After a year of having my two turtles I got my geckos, I noticed they're colors were orange and red, so I decided to name them Mango and Strawberry. It was pretty fun when I first got them, I'd let them out to crawl on the walls and on the ceiling of my room. But getting them down was a bit of a challenge because they were fast and did not want to go back in their terrarium. By the way, I usually leave their tank open during the day for fresh air and incase they want to explore their corner of the room. But one time I forgot to close their enclosure and Mango ended up getting out for two days before I noticed. I usually check on them everyday but since their nocturnal they hide during the day, which means I won't see them until it gets darker outside. After a couple hours of looking for him, after noticing he was lost, I found him hiding under my bed, in my shoes, sleeping.

    After another year had gone by I ended up buying 7 more turtles, all of them were different species too, which is fun. I ended up naming them: Bowser, Luigi, Crush, Squirt, Rocky, Puddles, and Tortuga. So at this point my house is filled with multiple large aquariums. I do plan on building a pond in my backyard so they'll be happier and it'll be easier to take care of them. I have a few fish too, the big ones are in the same tanks with the turtles and the smaller ones are by themselves. When my big fish were tiny the turtles kept trying to eat them, which was good because I didn't want a lot of my fish to keep breeding, so they kept the fish population at a constant rate. I even have one fish who is missing an eye because the turtles got hungry.