i just had a bad experience with a turtle not being taken care of from the in laws family, water changes once a month for a 20 gallon tank and the turtle was over 7 inches. when i would go over their it would have green water that was ridiculously smelly, and a filter that wasnt working, the turtle was to big for the tank and its floating basking dock and they didnt even have a basking lamp and had no idea it needed one,I took the turtle and put in a 125 tank. It took 6 months to nurse it back to health, and gave it away to someone who new his stuff.
Filtration not need!.......?
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I once had a turtle tank without filter and water changes once a week. It stinks real bad. My turtle is not happy about it either. My turtle is only 3 inches then. You dont have to go big on filters too. Regular filters you would use for fish would do. I have an turtle treating tank thats 40 gallon filter by a small internal filter that does 265 gph and has volume of 1/4 gallon. My water remained at 0 ammonia, I do 40% waterchange everyweek
From luck of the draw you could call it, my male turtle attacked the female that I took in from a very small tank. So the male is not in a container (only about 30 gallons sadly, but it is a temp home). The container has no filter on it, so we will see what happens there. On a good note, teh gf said I could get another tank woot woot.
Very possible with weekly water changes. I would keep tons of plants at the waters surface tho, with only roots in the water feeding. They sell some aqua planters that mount to the side of the glass that I have seen....not sure where to buy them tho, online somewhere.
Cookie*420;4647118; said:Very possible with weekly water changes. I would keep tons of plants at the waters surface tho, with only roots in the water feeding. They sell some aqua planters that mount to the side of the glass that I have seen....not sure where to buy them tho, online somewhere.
Very likely the turtles would A. Knock down the plants into the water or B. Eat the plants... Or most likely they'd do both. Putting plants in a sump or refugium though would work nicely.
komodo182;4647104; said:From luck of the draw you could call it, my male turtle attacked the female that I took in from a very small tank. So the male is not in a container (only about 30 gallons sadly, but it is a temp home). The container has no filter on it, so we will see what happens there. On a good note, teh gf said I could get another tank woot woot.
Get a filter asap. those that voted no has never own a turtle properly. As mention in my above post, filter is a must. Since turtle create more waste then fish does.
zenyoungkoh;4648504; said:Get a filter asap. those that voted no has never own a turtle properly. As mention in my above post, filter is a must. Since turtle create more waste then fish does.
I put them back together hours ago,lol.
My turtle tank has an xp3 and an ac110.
I think the main reason this came up is like someone said on the other site, ammonia does not affect turtles as quickly.
I isolated the male turtle for the night since I wanted to watch him when I put him back in and I could not do that when I sleep.
There has not been a serious attack since then and according to a few people that I know with turtle experience, a bite on the arm is nothing to worry about since nothing was removed.
I was one of the few people on the other site stating that turtles should have a filtration system and I thought maybe I should get some opinions of a larger sample. MFK is a pretty large sample.
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