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to heat or not to heat?
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Sat May 28, 2011 4:43 amby Eric
I live in northern CA close to Sacramento and I'm planning to build a habitat for my turtles that includes a 4 foot deep pool that is 20 foot in diameter.The pool in about 7,500 gallons.I was thinking about using one of those solar pool heaters for the winter and bypassing it in the summer.Will this be good or bad?there are wild RES in this area so Im sure theres a way I can keep them outdoors year round.
Re: to heat or not to heat?
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Sat May 28, 2011 12:31 pmby steve
I don't think you'll need it with that size pond. Have you posted pictures of it? Sounds great...
Re: to heat or not to heat?
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Sat May 28, 2011 8:24 pmby Eric
No pics yet,Im still in the planning stage of the habitat.Thanks for your reply,the money saved on not heating will be used for a good filter system
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Sat May 28, 2011 9:22 pmby Linus
They'll be fine.
How large are the RES. Don't expect them to be very active in the cooler months.
Re: to heat or not to heat?
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Sun May 29, 2011 2:14 amby Eric
there only about 3.5 and 4 inches right now,but I just got a 9 inch male today when I was at a koi farm.They had it in a little bucket so I had to save him.Hes in a 650 gallon pool in my garage right now
Re: to heat or not to heat?
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Sun May 29, 2011 3:42 amby Linus
PICS!
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Sun May 29, 2011 8:46 pmby SINI5T3R
ya something to heat that much water would run you a few hundred bucks EASY. if i were you I would go to like walmart and get one of those big pool filters and maybe one of those little things that run along the bottom of built in pools and stuck up all the debres on the floor. would be cool. pictures would be sweet aswell!
Re: to heat or not to heat?
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Mon May 30, 2011 12:27 amby Eric
Here's a pic of the 650 gallon pool that Mr.Man is in,hes hiding right buy the floating log.
http://i1189.photobucket.com/albums/z42 ... 1306729631
Re: to heat or not to heat?
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Mon May 30, 2011 12:34 amby steve
Looks good, hope you take a lot of in-progress pics!
Re: to heat or not to heat?
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Tue May 31, 2011 1:06 amby Linus
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Tue May 31, 2011 5:16 amby SINI5T3R
had almost the same thing for my turtles but outside so they could get all that good sun
ponds liek this are so fun because they are easy to set up, easy to take down and clean and move, and FUN to decorate! great to add fish too because its so big the turtles usually have hard times catching anything in there. and you can easily add like 60 different fish in that pool there. I had LOADS of cichlids, algae eaters, gold fish, minnows, angel fish, allll sorts of stuff in mine.
Re: to heat or not to heat?
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Wed Jun 01, 2011 2:10 amby Eric
Ill put mine outside when I move,right now my dogs will tare up the pool and maybe eat the turtle
