Turtle tank filteration....

[HawgHunter]

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.

[wesleydnunder]

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.

Mark

[Nickintex]

I use 2 internal Fluval filters in my 30 gallon long that houses my Mud and Musk Turtles.

[HawgHunter]

So I should be fine with a HOB filter....thanks guys!:emt_thumbs:

[PhishPhreek]

when you move back outside,
I would go with a small submersable pump and a home made wet/dry (any plastic storage container)

http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/displayitem.taf?Itemnumber=45303

I use one of these to do water changes for tanks that are lower than my deep sink.

[TaTeR ToT]

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.

[mnemenoi]

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.