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Post by bear24 on Apr 11, 2008 11:26:46 GMT -5
So I will keep this short until I get some picks to back it up. I moved my res colony(got a donation and kept it). into a 5'x2' tank it has about 14" of water totalling over 60 gal. 2 heat lamps and a 4' florescent light it. I will be planting it over the next few years,Lol. It looks great and all that is in it right now is the branches, bog wood and turtles. Those girls I got from the rescue are doing great; hard shells, eating like pigs, swimming like champions, navigating a rolling basking log. Pics coming.
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Post by bear24 on Feb 4, 2009 14:23:55 GMT -5
Update: picks still coming. I gave up planting the tank after the turtles ate through about 3 pounds of jungle val and a 3' long C.wendtii. I switched out almost all my wood used for reps, and now use cork bark. I had a log twist and break the ribs of my male jeweled curly tail. That will never happen with cork. Also rolling log got slimy and smelled like sewer so it went to the dump, was untreated and probably a bad idea in the first place. I have some chaser fish for them to gulp down (jeweled cichlids), and a few full meals swimming around 7" pacu.
The turtles have eaten these water plants; watersprite(not liked, floats around forever), cryptocoryne leaves(loved), val(eaten), anubias(loved, grows to slow for viable food source), African river fern(yes eaten but not supposed to $20 for 6" rhizome), salvinia(eaten), dwarf sagittaria(eaten), sword plants(loved)
And these dry foods: Reptomin (buy this stuff it is the best), Nutrafin Max(okay food low ash and moisture, alright portions of protein and filler, floats and gets the job done), Exo-terra turtle diet(comes in a bag, breaks apart almost right away upon hitting the water, does not float, turtles pick at the substrate all day, almost as good of ingredients as reptomin, but crap IMAO, leaves the tank smelling bad and clouded by all the broken pellets)
These wet foods are used; none man, fresh plants or floating hard stick its the only option
Highly recommended is Russ Gurley's Guide to keeping and breeding freshwater turtles. Its the closest thing I have to a bible, go buy it.
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