Re: Hello from Turkey!
Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2018 2:11 pm
litefoot wrote:To get the spray bar back above the water you can make the holes a hair bigger to quiet it down. Use something with a small point , ice pick , small nail and try in small increment's until you get the sound and or affect you want. Little larger holes will quiet it down a lot. You can also remove the spray bar part and let just the open tubing shoot water across the surface for a different effect.
With the canister filter try and make different nozzles to control the fast flow , be creative . Maybe even make a splitter to have half at surface and the other half going straight down. Or just put an inline valve to slow it down just a little or both (DIY) nozzle and a valve?
Basking area: how about cutting some cardboard and "wrap" basking area for some privacy "no" cover may hold too much heat in. Colored construction paper or magazine pictures as a background. A natural picture to help them feel safe and comfortable. That is until they get use to all going on around them. They will get comfortable in time and will not jump in the tank when you enter the room. Instead in time they will wake up and give you the "look" , we are trying to sleep up here. We were having good dream's , you woke us up running around out there. Turtle have remarkable expression's !
Thank you for the great recommendations! I stopped using canister filter until I find a good solution both for the noise and the current. I observed them and they were really unhappy with too much current (a 1500l/h filter for a 150l tank, with 1200l/h inner filter), and now they seem more comfortable, spending time in water. With the canister they were standing in the ramp or on the top of the inner filter.