Habitat - Indoor :: creating a basking area

[lamazanec]

So I just rescued 4 half dollar sized red eared sliders and yellow bellies. I'm not prepared for them right now... I'm currently living in the spare bedroom at a friends house while my boyfriend and I close on our house. So right now I have a rubbermaid for them, but I do have a 30 gallon in storage for them when we close on the house. My question is, there is no none water area in the current rubbermaid for them. I live in Hawaii and have the large lava rocks in my backyard. Can I boil one of them to clean it and put in their or will it leach bad stuff into the water?

Thanks,
Logan

[steve]

I don't know about lava rocks but anything that is usually aquarium/fish safe is OK to use. There are plenty of inexpensive platforms that you can make but you can also look into a simple resin reptile platform to use.

[lamazanec]

Thanks, I went to petco today and got a half log that floats around the tank. I think two are RES and two are YBS. The two RES love the log the others not so much yet.

[steve]

Those logs look great, but the turtles might outgrow it quickly. Keep an eye on any potential issues.

[VeipaCray]

For your own safety, please don't boil rocks...ever.