A few articles back, I wrote about my plans for revamping the habitat for our red eared sliders and putting the Russian tortoise habitat in the backburner until mid spring. Because the planning, costs and logistics required to create the…
Custom aquatic turtle wet / dry filter schematic
I’ve taken a few minutes of my spare time to dissect grifloki’s (see previous entry) custom wet / dry filter build and constructed a diagram of the diassembled filtration system and identified its components. This is for those who want…
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Some research, some rough sketch of the future red-eared slider vivarium
I’ve done some more indepth research on custom sumps and wet/dry filter setups and designs through various aquarium hobbyist and reef keepers’ web sites. I’ve gained a lot of valuable knowledge while researching and then I came acrossgrifloki’s YouTube channel where…
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Side view of the aquatic turtle habitat design
Here’s a side view of the proposed aquatic turtle habitat design and a rough idea of how things will work when they are all put in place. I’m contempating whether or not to attach a submersible pump to the reverse…
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Designing the perfect red eared slider tank
I am in the process of designing a complete aquatic turtle habitat for my two red-eared sliders, whom I’ve adopted from my sister. They were originally given to her from her boyfriend when they were mere hatchlings, not so different…
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