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truffles, turtles & tunes: May 2012
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Truffles, turtles and tunes. Reflections on vegetarian concerns, turtles, and traditional Irish music - plus anything else that catches my fancy. Wednesday, May 23, 2012. The Plight of Red Eared Sliders. Dinky, admiring his own reflection. Isnt he pretty? In honor of World Turtle Day. I want to focus on the problems associated with the breed of turtle that I own: the Red Eared Slider. Latin name: Trachemys scripta elegans. Links to this post. Sunday, May 06, 2012. Last summer. We were thrilled to pe...
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Red Ear Slider: January 2009
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General turtle talk, discussing set-ups, filters, and everything and anything that goes with turtles! Monday, January 5, 2009. Thinking about changing up media positioning. In my Fluval 404 I currently have this media arrangement(from top to bottom):. So it would then be(from top to bottom):. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). A little about me. Santa Cruz area, California, United States. I will be happy to answer them. View my complete profile. 010 Ornate Box turtle. 1 Red Eared Slider-Squirt.
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Red Ear Slider: April 2008
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General turtle talk, discussing set-ups, filters, and everything and anything that goes with turtles! Wednesday, April 30, 2008. Well I have had the sand for what, 2-3 weeks, and it is still going great. The tank water has remained very clean, and I have only been replacing evaporated water as needed. Squirts poo just sits on the top, along with other debris to either get sucked up by the filter, or get netted up by me. . If you are thinking about sand, I recommend doing it! Saturday, April 19, 2008.
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Red Ear Slider: DIY Sand Rake
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General turtle talk, discussing set-ups, filters, and everything and anything that goes with turtles! Saturday, September 13, 2008. Well I came up with this idea for a sand rake, and it works great! 1 cut out the handle and the rake grill. 2 glue on at an angle. 3 so that it'll work like this. And heres a short video I made of it in use. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). A little about me. Santa Cruz area, California, United States. I will be happy to answer them. View my complete profile.
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Red Ear Slider: Updated photo of Squirts tank!
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General turtle talk, discussing set-ups, filters, and everything and anything that goes with turtles! Saturday, August 30, 2008. Updated photo of Squirts tank! Heres a recent photo of squirts tank:. What do you think? Ok, after your tutorial, I am for sure going with sand - - I had hopes for getting the new tank set up today, but we have an out of town guest(AGAIN) and are leaving at 4am tomorrow to fish - - so it looks like Monday Sheldon will be in his new digs! September 6, 2008 at 9:06 PM. All views ...
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Red Ear Slider: Fine filtration
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General turtle talk, discussing set-ups, filters, and everything and anything that goes with turtles! Wednesday, September 17, 2008. I got this Idea from a member on the redearslider forum, so I have to give credit where it is due. Http:/ www.redearslider.com/forum/viewtopic.php? Anyway, the filter is made of a piece of stocking stretched over the second seperator grid in my xp1. It's the last stage of filtration and has done wonders for my water clarity. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Red Ear Slider: Where'd the photos go!
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General turtle talk, discussing set-ups, filters, and everything and anything that goes with turtles! Saturday, August 30, 2008. Where'd the photos go! Sorry all, I moved all my photos around in photobucket, so most of the pictures got all screwed up! If you need/want to see a specific photo, leave me a comment. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). A little about me. Santa Cruz area, California, United States. I will be happy to answer them. View my complete profile. 010 Ornate Box turtle. Squirt is a boy!
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Red Ear Slider: July 2008
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General turtle talk, discussing set-ups, filters, and everything and anything that goes with turtles! Wednesday, July 23, 2008. Cleaned out tank.almost. I did a large cleaning of the tank the other day. I cleaned the canister filter, wiped the tubes of the filter, cleaned half of the sand, did a 50% water change, cleaned the plants of algae, and cut out the screen for his UVB light. . It took me a while, but it was a relief when it was finished. . Better container for reptomin. Sunday, July 20, 2008.