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Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2005 11:11 pm **Newbie from New Zealand**

Hi guys. i am looking at setting up a turtle tank. i am looking at getting two turtles. My tank is about 140 litres. I currently have a filter and heater. I am just sussing out a ramp for my turtles and well as some lighting....i cant wait to get them

Cheers Craig

Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2005 12:48 am

How big will they be? 140 litres (about 37 gallons) is only adequate for hatchlings.

Think 40 litres for every 2.5 centimeters of shell length (I hope my conversion is close

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and hello!

Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2005 12:58 am

the shell on them at the shop are about 4-5 cm's i think....yeah my tank is just under a metre long by 40cm high by 38 cm wide...i thought it would be big enough for two res? Maybe what the shop told me is wrong...let me know

Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2005 1:12 am

that tank will probably last you 3 months before you will need to upgrade... they will grow fast when they are this young, with adult females topping around 10-12 inches (30.5cm).

Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2005 2:16 am

ah k kool....how many litres would be a good size tank?

Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2005 2:18 am

wow im impressed I never could convert them liters to gallons lol

Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2005 7:22 am

Welcome to the forum... I'll let Steve keep doing the great job at converting.

Somewhere way in the back of my mind it seems I heard something about that in math class... but that was a long time ago. :lol:

Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2005 8:52 am

Welcome

Same here, I have never been very good at math so I won't even try

Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2005 9:40 am

here is a convertor to help with those liter to gallons.. and inches to centimeters

http://www.sciencemadesimple.com/conversions.html

steve your calculations were good ..

Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2005 11:44 am

LOL. I used a PDA to do the math, the metric system still eludes me.

Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2005 11:46 am

Cheater!!

Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2005 11:46 am

Hey I'm all for cheating when it comes to math

Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2005 11:58 am

Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2005 12:39 pm

well steve I am glad you did that because I don't know if anyone would have done so well, that is unless they used carol's site . . . .

Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2005 2:29 pm

Hey we all cheat in different ways, I can't do enough math to figure it out even with a PDA :lol:

Thank goodness for the internet

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