Oh okay. Thanks.. After all these years I'm feeling so guilty because at the time we just assumed it would be impossible for him to get out of that tank and so one must have eaten the other. So we didn't really investigate much after that. Now I realise how stupid it was to assume that one turtle completely ate the other whole without leaving traces.. and I'm wondering is there anything I could have done and maybe found him, if I hadnt assumed and kept looking? That's something that has been bothering me..
We had looked all over the house that morning but not found anything.. we live in a different building now. I feel so bad that I didn't do anything when I had the time..
maybe I could have looked all over the building, in the stairs, and asked people to look out if I had posted about it then, or realised how stupid our assumption about his disappearance was. We just slept knowing we have two turtles and woke up to see only one.. almost like the other one disappeared in thin air. It hurts me to know I'll never know what really happened with him after he left the tank (if he did) and what did he have to go through. I've seen two turtles dying and it's really not nice when they're weak and close to death.. mine was a fit, nice, happy turtle... Can't imagine what he must have had to face after the incident.
How do you think it must have got out of the house when the door was closed all along ? And how must he have got out of the tank when they were much smaller to even reach the top?