FRT Substrate

[dodo]

Can you please post pics of the substrate that you are using with your frt along with the measurement of the frt?

Mine is around 13 inches or so and for the last 5 years, was in bare bottom tank...

I want to change the look of my tank and was thinking sand

 

[dirtyblacksocks]

I've heard they will eat crushed coral as well? Keep in mind these turtles come from riverine estuaries - where fresh water meets the ocean, so a high pH is important.

 

[shells-n-scales]

Just picked up another fly river a really small one in fact. I dont want to use play sand in this setup.. What kinda of sand is powdery white, and tends to be used alot with chiclids? Or is silica sand found in Home Depot or Lowes? (would it be found in the cement dept, or in the gardening center?? I'm not fish savy... so bare with me. But this guy is going in a display tank, vs all the other ones that are in large stock tanks and kept pretty simple.

For fly ingesting sand, throw a piece of cuttlebone.... I had one large male whole had a similar issue, once we started giving him cuttlebone it stopped.

 

[dirtyblacksocks]

Just picked up another fly river a really small one in fact. I dont want to use play sand in this setup.. What kinda of sand is powdery white, and tends to be used alot with chiclids? Or is silica sand found in Home Depot or Lowes? (would it be found in the cement dept, or in the gardening center?? I'm not fish savy... so bare with me. But this guy is going in a display tank, vs all the other ones that are in large stock tanks and kept pretty simple.

For fly ingesting sand, throw a piece of cuttlebone.... I had one large male whole had a similar issue, once we started giving him cuttlebone it stopped.

SeaChem makes a pre-packaged substrate that is white sand. I forget the name of the brand, but it's about as fine as it gets, and it's pre-rinsed so you don't deal with stray particles getting into the filters.

It's not cheap, though. But it's gorgeous.

 

[shells-n-scales]

Is this any good???

http://www.homedepot.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?jspStoreDir=hdus&catalogId=10053&productId=100674209&navFlow=3&keyword=silica%2Bsand&langId=-1&searchRedirect=silica+sand&storeId=10051&endecaDataBean=com.homedepot.sa.el.wc.catalog.beans.EndecaDataBean%4022192f19&ddkey=Search

 

[dirtyblacksocks]

With such an expensive and hard to come by animal I would just spring for something that has been designed for aquariums by a reputable company, over the cheap Home Depot method. Who knows what the difference is though, if any.

 

[VLDesign]

I use Home Depot "Not for use in Aquarium" white play in my 1500 gallon tank; there is also a small amount of argonite based sand in there as well.

 

[noodlestrudel16]

I have a 4" FRT in my 75g tank and I use fine crushed coral that's probably 1.5" thick. Sometimes he ingests some CC (I don't know if it's intentional or not) and so far he's fine. Oh and the CC keeps my water ph steady at 8.0

 

[uting]

my substrate is gravel. had no problems with it before. just make sure that you feed floating food.