Mr. Bart," The Missouri Turtle Man" will be happy to take care of all your snapper needs. Baby alligator snappers start at around 50 bucks. Mattas=PIA. All sidenecks in general, Mattas in particular. Skin/water issues...they are dirty. If you get a Matta, You gotta get a Pipa frog to go with it...just not in the same enclosure. And yeah, there are ammonia issues with feeding Goldfish...the turtle is an ammonia factory on his own. Snappers are much tougher...and they eat rats to pork chops Wayne