General Care Discussion :: What was your first setup?

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Post Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 11:37 pm   

yep....i did get the 140g along with him...but let me tell you...THEY DIDN'T SAVE ME ANY MONEY ON CARE...he was SO badly cared for that I've spent a bundle on him...all worth it of course, but thank goodness at least the tank was free!!

It was FILTHY so we had to clean it and it also has some partially ripped off backing on it that we had to scrape off with a razor blade...and my husband had to make a screen top for it....but it looks great now!
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Post Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 1:25 am   

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Pickle's first setup (back when she was called "Sylar") if you don't count the tiny criter keeper she came to me in.
I had no idea what I was doing when I set this up. I just did the best I could at the time.
All the measurement are on there because I was having all kinds of problems setting up the lights correctly.
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Post Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 7:40 pm   

mzkitty23 wrote:yep....i did get the 140g along with him...but let me tell you...THEY DIDN'T SAVE ME ANY MONEY ON CARE...he was SO badly cared for that I've spent a bundle on him...all worth it of course, but thank goodness at least the tank was free!!

It was FILTHY so we had to clean it and it also has some partially ripped off backing on it that we had to scrape off with a razor blade...and my husband had to make a screen top for it....but it looks great now!


Wow!! I'd take a dirty 140 gallon tank any day!!!
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Post Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 7:59 pm   

Photos of your old setups would be great too, thanks :D
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Post Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 8:18 pm   

haha imderanged i love how the uvb was pointed away from the basking. at least you had on though!
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Post Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 8:50 pm   

untsmurf: yeah, i cant complain about that, that's for sure!
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Post Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 3:56 am   

Daniel3507 wrote:haha imderanged i love how the uvb was pointed away from the basking. at least you had on though!

yeah...that pic was from when my poor turtles eyes swelled shut from a bad UVB bulb...so I kept moving it around, trying to get it far enough away...

Now I have a MVB and I'm very glad I only have to deal with one bulb!
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