Habitat - Indoor :: help! im new at this.

[sammajolynn]

alrighty, so my old middle school teacher quit due to illness.
she had many animals...&& needed to get rid of them so she left me with one red eared slider.

i dont know much about where he used to be or anything.

he was given to me with a tank, a floating dock, a rock && a 2 oz. bottle of reptomin floating food sticks.

he/she idk? is about 6 inches from head to tail.

he was barely ewating the pellets so i went and got him a dozen guppies and put them in the tank.
he has eaten all but 4 in the last 2 weeks.

he stays under the floating dock and never comes up from the water.

help would be nice!

[Vtolds]

You need to get basking Lights to encourage him to get out. So you need a UVA light for heat, and a UVB Light. So you will need 2 clamp lamps and a 75 watt incandescent bulb along with a Reptile specific 26 watt 5.0 UVB Bulb (Compact Fluorescent. You also need a water heater, that is big enough to hold the water at 78 degrees.

How big is the tank? Do you have that lighting? and the water heater?

[sammajolynn]

no i dont have anything.
my tanksa 10 gallon filled about 2 inches high. i recently moved him towards a window and now he get out a lot. hes swimming and splashing

[Vtolds]

You need a lot more water and a lot bigger tank than a 10 gallon. You should try to find yourself a 55 gallon tank and everything else I have mentioned. It looks like I forgot about filtration also. You need a filter that can filter 3 times as much water as you have int he tank a hour. So if you have a 55 gallon tank you need a filter that is built for 165 gallons, so something like a Rena XP3 would be perfect.

[megcornell]

There's no need to double post. I'm locking this thread. Any replies can be made to the topic in general care.