Habitat - Indoor :: New eastern mud turtle tank!

[Marcus.85]

So, I'm about to buy 2 baby eastern mud turtles and I thought I might use my old turtle setup I had in my attic.
The dimensions are 40"x17"
This is what I set up so far:




I still need to add rocks, buy a lamp holder for the uvb and some plants and rearrange it a bit. But don't worry i'll keep you guys up-to-date.
My question is the following:
I have 2 internal filters in there, a hydor pico (for up to 8gal) and a duetto dj 50 (up to 13gal). They're kinda small, I just filled them with biological material, without any sponge or whatever. I got a spare fluval 405 but it's way too powerful for that kinda setup and baby turts.
Would they be able to keep the water in check with 2 babies and some mosquitofish?

[happycamper]

Looks cool

[Marcus.85]

[Diamondbacks4Life]

Looks awesome! greta work. As for the filters. If you keep cleaning them alot. They should work.

[Marcus.85]

Well, after all they're just two mud turtles 1 inch and a half long, not res. Plus I'm planning on adding lots of other plants who can give a hand in keeping the water a bit cleaner. It shouldn't be too hard for the filters. But I'm looking for a small canister anyway, I found a TetraTec ex 700 for just 30bucks from some guy.

[Marcus.85]

Almost done:

[blackforces get you]

that looks really great. looks expensive too

[BullDog]

That is an awesome shape tank! Love all the plants! Your new muds will be in heaven!

[Marcus.85]

I'd say done:

[untsmurf]

awww baby!!!! What a cutie!

[BullDog]

Ah! First time I looked at the pic I didn't even see the turtle! So tiny and cute ^_^

[BiteyBits]

Wow that tank is amazing! Great job.

[Marcus.85]

Update:



I moved stuff around a little bit so that turtles and plants have more room and cleaning would be easier.
Added 2x39W t5 neon lights, i think they look stylish.
Turts have started basking a bit, i caught them on the basking rock a couple of times.
Mosquitofish are breeding and there's millions of them.

ps- apple snails have laid some eggs on the front glass.

pps- thursday I'm gonna get some red cherry shrimps. About 40 of them. I'll put them in a small tank with plants and stuff but i wanted to add some of them to this tank. Do any of you know if they might survive? WHAddyathink you guys? Thanks.

[rsour24]

that is an awesome setup. how you manage to grow plants in a turtle tank ill never know

[Marcus.85]

rsour: mud/musk turtles are carnivores. They generally don't mess a lot with plants (at least i hope so!), compared to res/ybs that will eat almost any kinda plant. that's why i got the eastern muds (and the small adult size). In the RES tank I have 0 real plants in the water, they're all silk/plastic.