Habitat - Indoor :: Need ideas for an indoor turtle enclosure!

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Post Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 5:29 pm   Need ideas for an indoor turtle enclosure!

HELP! I need ideas for a turtle enclouser! Pictures would be helpful :D
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Post Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 5:34 pm   

Are you talking about a dry area where the turtle could wander around and explore? A nesting area? Or an aquarium (wet) habitat?
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Post Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 7:25 pm   

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Post Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 10:13 pm   Re: Need ideas for an indoor turtle enclosure!

Turtlelover123 wrote:HELP! I need ideas for a turtle enclouser! Pictures would be helpful :D
This tank may be a bit too large.Image
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Post Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 10:19 pm   

Oh yeah! That's gonna be my indoor pond for my basement!! :twisted:
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Post Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 11:24 pm   

dude u could put a small shark in that :)
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Post Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 11:49 pm   

HOLY! I'll be lucky if I can find an apartment as big as that!
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Post Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 11:52 pm   

I wonder how many gallons that tank is? Probably over a thousand? :?
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Post Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2007 12:46 am   

Yea, the New England Aquarium in Boston, MA has a giant circular tank in the center of the building. It's 24ft tall and probably 30ft across and they say it holds 200,000 gallons of sea water. They've got dozens of large sharks (bulls, nurse, etc), moray eels, baraccudas, sea turtles, and all kinds of other fish. They say they have over 650 animals in there. It's pretty awesome. An old friend of mine used to volunteer there as a diver to feed the animals and clean the glass windows. Now that would be cool to have in my living room! :cool:
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Post Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2007 2:46 am   

You might as well just construct your living room on stilts in the sea!
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Post Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2007 10:22 am   

Heyyy, now that's not a bad idea...I think you're onto something there! :D

I got one better, how about a bubble dome under the sea! :D :D :D

hehe, actually, I think that's already been done. I hear someone built an underwater hotel but it costs like several thousand dollars for one night. :shock:
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Post Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2007 11:20 am   

wow that big water room is SWEET. i have plans drawn up in my head for a sunroom/screenroom for the turtles, which includes a pond and natural lighting. all i need is the money to buy the house to build it in!

what type of space do you have to work with turtle lover?
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Post Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2007 5:06 pm   

ok umm not to be negative or anything but none of ur dreams like having that humungusly fantastic turtle paradize will be possible ull need so much cash that u have to be the richest man on earth or alot of people helpin u otherwise it aint gonna happen (though shadow would be pretty happy there)
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Post Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2007 8:00 pm   

Awww! :(
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Post Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 12:02 am   

We where watching tv and saw an ad for those above ground pools and it was only $400 and its 4 ft deep I thought that would be a great turtle pond.Of course it wouldn't have the chemicals that a pool has I would just use it as a pond.
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