As of october 2010, there are northern side neck turtle, fly river turtle, northern red faced turtle, painted side neck turtle and saw-shelld snapping turtle.
This is an outstanding exhibit in what is an underrated reptile house. To be perfectly honest this entire zoo is underrated and somewhat perplexingly only 700,000 (or less) visitors tour it every year. It gets about the same attendance as terrific zoos in Miami and Dallas, and all 3 are superb and worthy of higher attendance numbers. In my mind there is very little wrong with the establishment, and in my opinion this zoo is a serious contender for being one of the top 5 in North America.
An excerpt from my 2010 review:
Amphibians & Reptiles Building – I thoroughly enjoyed this building, and I was quite tempted to place it in my “best category”. There are gigantic aldabra tortoises in an outdoor yard, an opening exhibit that is a ceiling-to-wall, enormous turtle tank, and a brilliant “Yangtze River” exhibit with these species: Chinese alligators, yellow pond turtles, golden thread turtles, Chinese softshell turtles and reeve’s turtles. The many other terrariums and tanks include cool-looking Javan forest dragons, gila monsters, a king cobra and many other reptiles and amphibians. Only a modest collection stops this building from being truly top-class, but there is work on a new venomous snake gallery.
If you visit this tank at 11:45 AM you can see the daily feeding. The coolest part is the Archerfish shooting the crickets off the stump they stated doing a few months back. Check out this video I took today.
