Habitat - Indoor :: Turtle's Tank

[Brearune]

Part one of our turtle tank remodel.... we built her an out of tank basking area so that we can fill her 55 up fully. a 55 is still too small for her, but i just bought a 75 gallon we're planning on setting up in January (we're moving to a new house, figured we may as well wait )


her home, before... look how big she is, and how small it all looks I knew we needed a new tank at that time, but this is also when i realized that her basking area was no good, so I decided to spend the money to build an out of tank area instead.

sooo, here's the start of that process!


Bent it ourselves... that's my fiance Don, btw... don't mind him. =P


taped some of the pieces together


All taped together! and so we glue, and thennn...


we glue on all of the bottom substrate... which, btw, she has already destroyed -_- she's flipping strong, and her claws easily dug into the glue... put two and two together, and the whole thing is shredded. Gotta redo that soon, already. bleh. oh well, it looked nice at first, huh?


And step 1 is complete! Next will be in January at the new house, when we get her into her nice big tank I can't wait, she'll be so happy there.


BTW, anyone know of any 'plans' for building my own stand for a 75 gal (average dimensions)? The one I bought didn't come iwth a stand so during this month I'm going to work on getting that done for January. hah. thanks, guys, hope you enjoy pictures.....



EDIT: here's a couple random cell phone shots of turtle figured I should put some plain shots of her as well.


finally eating her lettuce... she was refusing for sooo long... thank god!


Sand covering her after I cleaned her tank hahaha.

[megcornell]

Nice upgrade.
There are some really good plans for 75g stands online. I used one set and modified it for a 55g and it works great. Here's the link:
http://www.arbreptiles.com/cages/75g_stand/index.shtml

[Brearune]

oh wow, that's perfect! and it's gorgeous! I was kinda nervous about some of the ones i had found before, but that seems pretty good Thanks!

[BullDog]

Looks great! Perhaps if you put the stones much closer together she won't be able to tear it apart? Donno!
How big is she?

Also, the link Meg posted is the one I did for my 75 and 90 gallon stands as well

[Mauk]

Wow that looks pretty nice the stand and the out of tank basking area. I will have to copy these ideas when my guys get big enough, hell I am already planning to get a 100+ gallon tank or stock tank for these 3 hatchlings.. i'm crazy!

[bradmeisel]

i jus payed 230- for a 75 gal stand that isn't as nice as that. That's a nice stand you made.

[Brearune]

As for how big she is; her shell's around 7-8 inches... She never stays still enough to figure it out exactly
and thanks guys!
and yeah, I definitely plan on making that stand, especially since I now have people vouching that it can support the weight of the tank. I was worried about building my own solely because of that haha.
so thanks sooo much for that link and the feedback on that

[awatson88]

Building a stand is pretty easy and cheap. I just upgraded to a 55 gallon. I built my own stand basically the same way that the website showed. It was about $30 in wood and takes only a few hours. Looks just as good as the ones you buy at the pet store for $150+.