Sewer lagoon turtles
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I got a call from a company today to remove snapping turtles from their sewer lagoons. Does anyone have any pointers on how to get them out this time of the year? Normally I would just trap them out, but they don't respond to bait right now. I was thinking of putting a canoe in and dipping them out with a net. The ponds have a hard rubber liner in them and the water line is down about six feet with about five feet of water. Has anyone worked with these types of lagoons?
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Re: Sewer lagoon turtles
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My Lagoons are clay liners. I am sure there will be sludge on the bottom that the turtles will hide in. It will make it hard to dip them out if you can find them. Care must be taken not to tear the lagoon liner. Care must be taken with the methane off gassing when you start stirring up the sludge. Breathing to much of it can make you light headed and pass out. Flat bottom boat would be better then a canoe for that reason. Dave
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Re: Sewer lagoon turtles
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Was it me, I'd go with floating repeaters. Don't really need bait, as they will climb aboard to sun.
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My Lagoons are clay liners. I am sure there will be sludge on the bottom that the turtles will hide in. It will make it hard to dip them out if you can find them. Care must be taken not to tear the lagoon liner. Care must be taken with the methane off gassing when you start stirring up the sludge. Breathing to much of it can make you light headed and pass out. Flat bottom boat would be better then a canoe for that reason. Dave These lagoons are about a year old so I'm hoping there won't be too much muck on the bottom. The turtles are in the last stage of the lagoon so I'm hoping there won't be too much on the bottom either.
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Was it me, I'd go with floating repeaters. Don't really need bait, as they will climb aboard to sun. Snappers aren't basking turtles like sliders are.
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Re: Sewer lagoon turtles
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Is there a reason they need to be taken right now for damage or something this winter. I would try to get an annual contract to control their turtles and this spring use the turtle trap sold by wcs. The net one made by Jerry Shilling. You will fill it up with turtles until there are none. I don't know what to do this time of the year. I would do whatever I could not to dig around in the "sludge" of a lagoon.
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Re: Sewer lagoon turtles
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I did some swimming ponds on a nuisance job to remove snappers. I used a 4 foot grade stake and drilled a hole through it and crimped a 6 foot cable on it with large size 1/4 turn Bass hooks baited with meat. The sticks were a little more hidden then the milk jugs. The hooks came out the side of the mouth when they bite them and removed very easy with no harm to them. Went back each day a pulled snappers up on shore and put in truck. It was in warmer weather. Dave
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some one offered the suggestion of bait or give them something to climb on.
wrong answers! large snappers in iowa at this time of year will not climb on stuff to sun themselves.(thats what small turtles do) ie: painted turtles or red eared pond sliders etc. snappers are not feeding in these cold temps regardless what you re offering. their digestive systems have shut down. you may see turtles moving in cold water even under ice but to catch them you would have to get in the water or catch them through the ice. my question is why do you want to catch a snapper in a sewer lagoon? it won't be fit to eat!
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my question is why do you want to catch a snapper in a sewer lagoon? it won't be fit to eat! Waste handlers process their waste many different ways. Most use some sort of pumping system, depending on the type of process needed dictated by the type of waste and volume. Turtles interfere with the pumps and the process itself. As far as eating them, the statement was that the ponds were final stage ponds. Maybe the turtle were feeding on fish in the ponds. There would probably be no difference in taste. It all depends on the affluent, stage, and process.
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Re: Sewer lagoon turtles
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When I was a kid we spent the first 2 weeks of summer vacation trapping turtles. We put them in cattle tanks of clean water. We changed the water a few times and spent the rest of summer catching fish to feed them. About a week before school started back up we had a big party and turtle fry. I sure miss the old days of being care free.
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Re: Sewer lagoon turtles
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Truth be known, the sewer lagoons are probable no different then some of the swamps they come from far as how clean they are. Dave
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