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As far as the plumbing setup, I'm embarrassed to admit I'm a bit clueless as to exactly how it all works, despite my husband patiently explaining it to me more than once. In one ear, out the other when it comes to stuff like that I'm afraid! If you have any specific questions I can ask him though! The filter itself is basically a pump and 2 plastic drawers that pull out of a unit that's sat in the sump. One contains these high surface area plastic bio ball things, the other has quilt batting, which collects the gunk and gets changed out every couple of weeks. Fresh water is constantly dripping into the tank to give a rate of approx 25% water change per week (I think) and drains at similar rate into the basement slop sink via a pipe through the floor.
The substrate is play sand, which took a LOT of rinsing until the water ran clear and it was good to go. No problems with turtle trying to eat it so far.
Driftwood stump and rocks sourced from local nature center and thoroughly cleaned before putting in tank.
Plants are artificial - may add a couple more. Would love live plants but know from experience they wouldn't last long.
Basking platform is slate tile we had leftover from when we did the floor in the room. It's sat on one of the heavy glass lid pieces that came with the tank. Driftwood stump leads up to it, and we added turtle's old basking platform as an additional ramp, screwed onto stump. Quickly usually sleeps with one or both back feet resting on the driftwood stump, just below the surface of the water. Oh and in case you're wondering there's a 2 inch air gap between the water surface and the underside of the basking area.
The topper is 4 pieces of custom glass, the front one being removable for easy tank access for cleaning etc. Except it's not that easy as glass piece is big and cumbersome to remove, so we may end up replacing that piece with plexiglass in the future.
Fish: 2 barbs, a dozen little guys whose name escapes me, and a red-tailed shark. We've put a bunch of snails in there to help with cleaning, but Quickly has eaten quite a few of them.
Sorry I'm a bit vague on some of the details, but let me know if you want more specific info on anything! Will upload more pics later.
Oh and absolutely post to facebook - didn't know there was a fb page, so thanks!