They only bite if you step on them or get too close. Snapping turtles hide in the bottom mud and ambush their prey. Snapping turtles can eat fish almost as big as they are but probably will not eat too many. Their carapace is 10 to 18 inches long, and they can grow to 35 to 60 pounds. Most average 10 to 35 pounds and 8 to 19 inches long.
Common snappers eat plants, fish, crayfish, ducklings, and all sorts of animals.
Basically, anything that they can catch will get eaten. Females lay 25 to 50 round eggs in early summer. Clemmys guttata is the increasingly rare spotted turtle. They eat insects and small animals. They are gorgeous, small black turtles with yellow spots.