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Post Posted: Sat May 28, 2011 4:43 am   to heat or not to heat?

I live in northern CA close to Sacramento and I'm planning to build a habitat for my turtles that includes a 4 foot deep pool that is 20 foot in diameter.The pool in about 7,500 gallons.I was thinking about using one of those solar pool heaters for the winter and bypassing it in the summer.Will this be good or bad?there are wild RES in this area so Im sure theres a way I can keep them outdoors year round.
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Post Posted: Sat May 28, 2011 12:31 pm   Re: to heat or not to heat?

I don't think you'll need it with that size pond. Have you posted pictures of it? Sounds great...
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Post Posted: Sat May 28, 2011 8:24 pm   Re: to heat or not to heat?

No pics yet,Im still in the planning stage of the habitat.Thanks for your reply,the money saved on not heating will be used for a good filter system
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Post Posted: Sat May 28, 2011 9:22 pm   Re: to heat or not to heat?

They'll be fine.

How large are the RES. Don't expect them to be very active in the cooler months.
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Post Posted: Sun May 29, 2011 2:14 am   Re: to heat or not to heat?

there only about 3.5 and 4 inches right now,but I just got a 9 inch male today when I was at a koi farm.They had it in a little bucket so I had to save him.Hes in a 650 gallon pool in my garage right now
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Post Posted: Sun May 29, 2011 3:42 am   Re: to heat or not to heat?

PICS!
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Post Posted: Sun May 29, 2011 8:46 pm   Re: to heat or not to heat?

ya something to heat that much water would run you a few hundred bucks EASY. if i were you I would go to like walmart and get one of those big pool filters and maybe one of those little things that run along the bottom of built in pools and stuck up all the debres on the floor. would be cool. pictures would be sweet aswell!
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Post Posted: Mon May 30, 2011 12:27 am   Re: to heat or not to heat?

Here's a pic of the 650 gallon pool that Mr.Man is in,hes hiding right buy the floating log.

http://i1189.photobucket.com/albums/z42 ... 1306729631
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Post Posted: Mon May 30, 2011 12:34 am   Re: to heat or not to heat?

Looks good, hope you take a lot of in-progress pics!
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Post Posted: Tue May 31, 2011 1:06 am   Re: to heat or not to heat?

Eric wrote:Here's a pic of the 650 gallon pool that Mr.Man is in,hes hiding right buy the floating log.

http://i1189.photobucket.com/albums/z42 ... 1306729631


very nice
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Post Posted: Tue May 31, 2011 5:16 am   Re: to heat or not to heat?

had almost the same thing for my turtles but outside so they could get all that good sun :D

ponds liek this are so fun because they are easy to set up, easy to take down and clean and move, and FUN to decorate! great to add fish too because its so big the turtles usually have hard times catching anything in there. and you can easily add like 60 different fish in that pool there. I had LOADS of cichlids, algae eaters, gold fish, minnows, angel fish, allll sorts of stuff in mine.
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Post Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2011 2:10 am   Re: to heat or not to heat?

Ill put mine outside when I move,right now my dogs will tare up the pool and maybe eat the turtle
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