Photo Gallery :: Bin Upgrade!

[AllTheCandies]

My baby turtles, Jager and Stoli, are slowly but surely getting healthier. They swim around a lot now and eat heartily. So, I decided to get them a bin that's a bit bigger to allow them more swimming room. When they get even healthier, I'm going to get them a new basking place and make the water level higher. I'm slowly working them up to how much water they should be in because they still get tired very easily.

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I just put them in here a couple hours ago so they are still exploring all the new additional swimming space. The orange stuff scattered around are bits of carrot left over from their dinner.

[lotsofpets]

Do you have a regular bulb for heat, or just the UVB? Did they have R.I's? They need some real or plastic plants to hide and rest in.

[AllTheCandies]

The lamp actually heats up because it's made of metal and it just radiates. I'm going to get a heat bulb when it gets cooler out, but it's been over 85 degrees in this room for the last few weeks (usually more like 90+) and I don't want to boil them. They amazingly didn't have any ri when I got them. They had very unhappy fungi. The darker one has some shell rot damage that is finally starting to heal up. The other just had fluffy white fungus.

[AllTheCandies]

I got them some little floating plastic plants and a calcium bone today. Since they're so small, I broke off a piece of the calcium bone. They seem to really like the fake plants . Also, they're really starting to get used to me!! They poke their heads out of the water when I look in the bin now, instead of running away.