Habitat - Indoor :: NEW TANK !!!

[steve]

He's adorable! These turtles get huge and are aggressive (needs to be kept alone)... http://www.austinsturtlepage.com/Care/c ... tshell.htm

[the-turtle-Girl]

They're aggressive towards others of their species . He gets along fine with my two RES and my Mississippi Map

[the-turtle-Girl]

Anyone know how to sex a softshell turtle ?

[steve]

Females are much larger, males will have a longer tail.

[the-turtle-Girl]

Drats, I don't have a large enough tank for a female fully grown , I already have to get a huge tank for a male lol

[steve]

Maybe she will be on the smallish side? My female RES isn't too big compared to other RES her age.

[the-turtle-Girl]

Softies can gut up to like 2 feet :/ and I don't wanna deal will eggs again . I wanna stock tank and a better filter so I can do more for my turtles but money's tight right now .-. I hate not being able to give them more room , they're all small turtles but I have 4 of them in a 55 gallon , just feel like they don't have enough space :c

[the-turtle-Girl]

I recently moved and got new turtles ! I have a 55 till tax time the im gettin a 75 but here it is !
http://i64.tinypic.com/2zgakqc.jpg

[steve]

Looks great! If you don't mind some comments, I would hang those lights on either the ceiling or wall. Use a GFCI outlet for all aquarium equipment. I'm not sure what's holding down the basking area and maybe throw on a background if you want to hide some of the wires. Did you decide on the sand?

[Kansasslider]

My phone won't let me see your tank but congrats anyways.

[steve]

here's an embedded image

[the-turtle-Girl]

Looks great! If you don't mind some comments, I would hang those lights on either the ceiling or wall. Use a GFCI outlet for all aquarium equipment. I'm not sure what's holding down the basking area and maybe throw on a background if you want to hide some of the wires. Did you decide on the sand?

I had sand in it . I just moved me and my boyfriend have an apartment now on our own and I just moved the tank yesterday . Hadnt decided weather I wanted to put sand in it . And I moved my softshell and my Mississippi map into a 35 together cause one of my bigger turtles was picking on the smallest of the tank so I just separated them , but yea I wanna hang my lights from the ceiling or I wanna make an actual basking area for the top of the tank and then I'll have my lights on that , we're taking things one week at a time lol , I'm hopefully getting a 75 gallon tank and a Rena xp3 and something else not sure yet , but yea I'm working on things slowly !

[Kansasslider]

Hope your basking area can't fall off. Looks good. I like sand and have white sand in my stock tank. I do not recommend Rena filters they have problems.

[the-turtle-Girl]

[the top was mis-posted, -steve]

http://i68.tinypic.com/2zg8zs1.jpg
http://i67.tinypic.com/et8oir.jpg

There's a metal rack underneath it that sits on the tank so it's not going anywhere lol

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Here's Kimbo my Eastern Spiny Sofshell
http://i68.tinypic.com/9ifw9h.jpg
Smalls my RES
http://i64.tinypic.com/2yy3wpu.jpg
Wiz my other RES
http://i64.tinypic.com/2dayfj5.jpg
Ninja my common map
http://i63.tinypic.com/2chxqie.jpg
m&m my Eastern Painted
http://i63.tinypic.com/fm8654.jpg
And last but not least Ink my Mississippi map
http://i65.tinypic.com/10pu5xf.jpg
All my babies !

[steve]

The Eastern Spiny is much prettier than I thought.