turtle substrate
- Thread starter rhinod56
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I've kept Musk and Painted turtles on bare bottom tanks with large rocks for climbing on and living, floating Anachris for cover. Bare bottom tanks are very easy to keep clean.
I used to have a bunch of rocks and stuff in my tank, but if I didnt take them out and clean them everyday, crap would get stuck under them and make the water get nasty, so I removed them and now just have barebottom with a big cinder block as a land area. My turtles happy, and my waters clean.
AttackFish;1060035; said:
The bad thing about using cinder blocks is that they are very rough against a turtles shell and after a while of rubbing against this, they could develope an infection.
Vicious_Fish;1061347; said:
Normally, from what I see when he gets on and off of it, he raises himself up about an inch of the ground, so I havent noticed him dragging himself on it. I check the bottom of his shell evryday just incase though.
I also notice, when I take him outside, he never touches the ground with his shell unless he's resting, but when walking he raises himself up REALLY high and can walk quite fast. I remember the first time I took him out in the yard he "Ran" all the way across it.
