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  • Turtle tank filteration....

    Just wondering what other turtle keepers use as filters for thier aquatic turtles? I, or rather my 7 yr old daughter, have 2 red ears around 3 inches each.

    Right now we have them in a 10 gal for the winter so we can bring them in and take them out as weather permits. Once it warms up this Spring we have a cool little plastic sand box that looks like it's made of stone that they will be going in.
    A mouth will say anything....:ym_chatterbox:....Take a picture!!!!

  • #2
    Back when the kids were little we kept a couple RES that the boys had caught in a plastic kiddie pool. I used coarse sponge filters driven by an air pump just for mech filtration. I didn't really care about biofiltering the pool as I did a 100% weekly water change, and the turtles weren't effected by ammonia, etc.

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    • #3
      I use 2 internal Fluval filters in my 30 gallon long that houses my Mud and Musk Turtles.
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      • #4
        So I should be fine with a HOB filter....thanks guys!:emt_thumbs:
        A mouth will say anything....:ym_chatterbox:....Take a picture!!!!

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        • #5
          when you move back outside,
          I would go with a small submersable pump and a home made wet/dry (any plastic storage container)
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          I use one of these to do water changes for tanks that are lower than my deep sink.
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          • #6
            i kept and raised a female res from 3"tl, to 13"tl, i had her for 6 years, she lived her whole life in a 75g tank.

            i used and eheim 2217 and rena xp4.

            i usually had to clean these filter every month or so.

            i had 2x 4ft twin tube shop lights, each ran one exoterra 40watt flourescent reptisun bulb, and a flora max for the anarachis and hornwort that i was growing for her to graze on.
            it was a display i had bought over 100lbs of fla stone flat rocks, and used quick crete to hold them together, it was like a step stone ladder leading to a large 15x12" stone ontop where she would bask, she had 1x 150watt reptisun basking bulb over her stone.

            if you are doing a pond in would reccomend a large homemade sponge filter system, on my bros 96x36x32 620g turtle pond we built i made a massive sponge filter out of a mage 9 pump which i attached a pvc male adapter to and put a 1" pvc pipe on it about 12" long with slits cut into it all the way down on both sides of the pipe and capped off with a pvc cap, i slipped a large roll of quilt batting over the pipe and it kept the pond spottless, i ran 3 of these in there.

            each one is good for around 250g.
            just keep ontop of cleaning it or it wil burn the motor up.
            FRENCH FRY!!!

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            • #7
              I had a 3" softshell in a convict/bullhead tank when I was a teen. Had a small ledge and various floating pumice to crawl out onto. I used 2 big HOB filters and he grew quickly.
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