Habitat - Indoor

dude that is awesome nice job

That looks great! Well done!

Well this time I actually put in some effort. Still the materials were all free. Just this time Looked at the tank to see what my mind could think up and what my hands were capable of! These are the out come!

I wanted it to be somewhat natural. Gotta do some more thinking on what to do to make it more so natural.

Here is my female petunia enjoying it !

That's cute! Do they track the gravel back into the water?

So far they have not. That was the only material I had though. I intend on putting black sand ( like I have in the bottom of the tank ) in there asap as I do not want the little rocks to come down with the turts.

I was just curious. They might like the rocks.

hey thinkskater can you post a pic of your whole tank setup?

Well, they eat ANYTHING that isn't the color of the sand on the aquarium floor. Don't want them to choke on anything.

Here is a picture of the entire janky setup.

ok cool thanks

That's neat.

: Mr.Turtle/BabyTurtle....baby turtle just loves mr. turtle to death!

these two are so funny. baby turtle mimics everything mr. turtle does. only once has baby turtle gotten on mr. turtle's nerves and then she just kinda swept her away with an arm motion....no aggression...it is like watching a vaudeville routine. when mr. turtle was digging and trying to leg eggs in the tank (yes, we have gender identification issues!) baby turtle just pretends she is laying eggs too. once i had mr. turtle out of the tank for an attempt to lay eggs elsewhere and baby turtle was a complete mess!!! she has never been separated from mr. turtle and she was so sad!!

she has so much energy that mr. turtle and i just look at each other and i imagine that she is shaking her head right along with me. when baby turtle gets like that, i call her "freak show" and she "dances"...

they said that mr. turtle would kill baby turtle. i have to admit that if I were mr. turtle, i would have done so by now because she is a handful. but mr. turtle is extremely tolerant and i like to say "postmodernly progressive"....haha...anyhow, they are the apples of my eye and i love them so.

Awww.... They are so cute!

Hi, newbie here! Google brought me to this thread and it has been a great source of inspiration. I've been wanting to build our 5 year-old painted, Myrtle, an above tank basking spot for awhile now. We recently had to take her out and redo all of the silicone seals in her tank due to a massive leak (the tank was a great craigslist score so I'm not complaining), and I figured it would be the perfect time to get one built while everything was drying and we were making sure it would hold water for a few days before putting her back in.

Here is what I came up with. The basking spot is 17" by about 13." The frame is apprx 24" long, 17" deep, and about 13" tall.

I built a frame out of PVC and painted it black. Then I attached the acrylic floor with zip ties.

I used a glue gun to attach rocks to the floor and added in a few decorations we had sitting around from previous fish tanks (I have a 7 y.o., hence the Spongebob)

My husband and I attached pet screen by anchoring it with small screws and then I went all around and sealed it up with the glue gun, after testing its strenght on spare pieces. It holds extremely well.

And the ramp is made of acrylic, with rocks glued on with the glue gun, and it is attached to the floor with zip ties. I secured the water bottle on the bottom of the ramp for flotation and buoyancy. It's working great and supporting her weight.

Myrtle enjoying her rays. It took her a full day to be comfortable enough to stay up there longer than a minute, which I think is pretty good. We're all happy with the outcome!

Her 125 gal tank, which is in some need of plants and fish

She lives on our sunporch, so we can enjoy her out there and from the family room. This is also why there are so many glares and reflections in my pics.

Thanks again to everyone who has posted here! It was a huge help!

Wow that is absolutely fabulous.

Great looking work everyone!

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