I had an acquaintance whose slider outgrew his tank so she made him a black hard plastic pond in her apartment. [Landlord ignored this but lady below her was already frightened of her for other reasons involving reptiles and amphibians].
Eventually, she released slider into a small pond out in the woods.
I know frogs cannot be released after living inside for six months due to household contaminants spreading to the outdoor population via the frog. I wonder if the same or similar is true for slider.
[Or for any other specimen that irresponsible owners have dumped onto the environment].
The problem in Florida with released snakes is well-known in terms of over-population and crowding out native species.
But what about the upsetment of baterium within the environment of the sliders themselves? as well as their water stuffs?
The problem I think is larger than overpopulation. It has to be. Any specimen that lives in an artificial human environment for x amount of months is bound to become "contaminated" by that environment.
An irresponsible release [dumping, abandonment] into a natural setting which is unfamiliar with the onslaught of human contaminants which the turtle has been exposed to...
multiplied by the number of turtles released into ecologically sensitive areas...
you do get where I'm going with this, right. Things as basic as a slider excreting into the natural environment and spreading the humanstuffs that way.
I'm not expressing it so well, damn the aphasia, but you sorta get it, right?
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Date: 2015-10-12 12:23 am (UTC)I had an acquaintance whose slider outgrew his tank so she made him a black hard plastic pond in her apartment. [Landlord ignored this but lady below her was already frightened of her for other reasons involving reptiles and amphibians].
Eventually, she released slider into a small pond out in the woods.
I know frogs cannot be released after living inside for six months due to household contaminants spreading to the outdoor population via the frog. I wonder if the same or similar is true for slider.
[Or for any other specimen that irresponsible owners have dumped onto the environment].
The problem in Florida with released snakes is well-known in terms of over-population and crowding out native species.
But what about the upsetment of baterium within the environment of the sliders themselves? as well as their water stuffs?
The problem I think is larger than overpopulation. It has to be. Any specimen that lives in an artificial human environment for x amount of months is bound to become "contaminated" by that environment.
An irresponsible release [dumping, abandonment] into a natural setting which is unfamiliar with the onslaught of human contaminants which the turtle has been exposed to...
multiplied by the number of turtles released into ecologically sensitive areas...
you do get where I'm going with this, right. Things as basic as a slider excreting into the natural environment and spreading the humanstuffs that way.
I'm not expressing it so well, damn the aphasia, but you sorta get it, right?